Coyote Tracks: Text Editor Intervention
What we’ve all been wondering about with our beloved code editor, TextMate. From the outside, TextMate’s development seems to have stalled out at least a couple of years ago. If you are like me, you’re wondering what to replace it with and when to make that jump.
I was thinking about making the jump to Sublime 2 ($59), but I could also go back to Smultron ($4.99 in Mac App Store) for a while. Sublime does have a lot of files to edit in place of traditional preference pane(s), but I like the split view capabilities and mini-view which shows all code, shrunk down, in the sidebar for navigating through it.
Smultron is light weight and fast. I still find myself using it to reference snippets I’ve saved over the years. We’ll see.
Anyway, Watts Martin provides a thoughtful read:
“Don’t write a text editor; you’re reinventing fire.” — Ben Straub
As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been a TextMate user for the last few years, albeit increasingly reluctantly. TM has always been a mix of sheer brilliance and stone cold stupid, and while the former outweighs the latter,…
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