Lots of love for #TextMate in my timeline. I too used it extensively since it came out up until @panic released Nova.

It bridges being a nimble text editor while scaling to “IDE” to quell any VS Code FOMO.

I even wrote the first version and currently maintain the Erlang extension.

I will never forget TextMate, though <3

On 2020-02-10 I stopped using #atom and started using and practicing once again #vim. On 2020-04-30 I stopped trying to make #vim my editor and adopted #vsCode. On 2020-05-24 I switched to #emacs.

My text-editor for coding history:

- pre-2005 :: Proprietary IBM for AS/400 stuff
- 2005 :: JEdit, Emacs, Vi, TextWrangler, BBEdit, Textmate
- 2005 to 2008 :: #Textmate
- 2008 to 2015 :: #Sublime
- 2015 to 2020 :: Atom
- 2020 :: Vim, VS Code, Emacs
- 2020+ :: Emacs

Is there are place where people discuss #TextMate grammars – especially implementing parsers for them?

@Vaguery Sometimes I imagine the world where #TextMate kept up and got LSP, debugging, and other modern features. It's a nice timeline to think about. Chocolat could have been good too.

I think Nova is here for the long haul, but I am yet to get the Ruby debugger extension to work at all.

Hmm, is #Textmate abandonware?

If I could find a powder blue theme for #TextMate / #SublimeText that would make my day

Smiling at the random reminder that a small part of #TextMate — its language grammars — lives on, deep inside %appdata% on a Windows VM’s Visual Studio

Sad day over here. I'm finally accepting that my favorite text editor is never coming back. MacOS updates in recent years made #TextMate slow and buggy.

Thanks for all the good times, old buddy!

I'm taking a test drive of Sublime Text. So far that seems to be the closest to TextMate. Any other editors I should consider?

I've really disappeared down a few editor-related rabbit holes today...

Uncovered a few annoyances with #SublimeText 4 so tried some others.

#Kate: awful UI
#Bluefish: awful UI
#Brackets: too basic, buggy UI
#NetBeans: way too complex & slow (duh, #Java)
#Textmate: no way to have a terminal pane

I've now managed to customise Sublime to mitigate most of its issues, and I'm settling in.

However, there is a PhpStorm .dmg sitting on my desktop which will get clicked if Sublime doesn't behave.

Been trying VS Code(/ium) for maybe a year now. Used it a lot, but still find myself going back to TextMate often - preferring it on the latest project. It's faster, ultra reliable and I guess I'm just so familiar with it.

VS Code mostly works, but is a bit sluggish on my old Mac (less than most Electron beasts though) and all that plugin stuff often fucks up and requires a lot of setup if you like to play with multiple languages and platforms.

#texteditor #textmate #vscode #editor #coding

@mntmn if setting up an #rmate script to remotely edit a file over ssh with an visual editor that supports #TextMate's remote-mate way of editing (for example #SublimeText, or #TextMate2 itself) is an option, then that would also come to mind. :)

I read DHH mention #TextMate yesterday and was surprised that this text editor is so rarely mentioned. To me it’s the only choice that’s ever stuck because all the new/hip options are Electron-based and I refuse, on principle and for the quality of the UX, to write code in a web-based UI. And don’t get me started on Gruber and BBEdit…

Huh… Been using the last-shipped commercial version of #Textmate for YEARS. Just found out it finally went open source and they even took it to v2! https://github.com/textmate/textmate

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