Comments on: Why I Use TextMate

By: zap

zap — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:10:47 +0000

Could the TextMate lovers please be specific regarding what it is about TextMate that they prefer over vim (other than TextMate’s eye-candy and gentle learning curve) ?

By: zap

zap — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:10:00 +0000

Could the TextMate lovers please be specific regarding what it is about TextMate that they prefer over vim (other than TextMate’s eye-candy and gentle learning curve) ?

By: Vasil

Vasil — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:38:31 +0000

One reason I've moved from textmate to emacs on some projects even on mac:

On projects with alot of files loaded over a network share it hangs for hours every time you regain focus.

I know there's a plugin that tries to solve this but it sucks.

By: Vasil

Vasil — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:38:00 +0000

One reason I’ve moved from textmate to emacs on some projects even on mac:
On projects with alot of files loaded over a network share it hangs for hours every time you regain focus.
I know there’s a plugin that tries to solve this but it sucks.

By: Rob Bazinet

Rob Bazinet — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:35:52 +0000

@josh - I wonder why people move to different editors sometimes. It almost seems like sheep following the crowd. On the Mac, it seems TextMate is the smoothest, where Visual Studio on Windows. I probably have not given Vi or Emacs a fair shake but they seem antiquated with their little add-ons for Rails (for example) to be hack jobs to paste over an antiquated editor.

Maybe a lightbulb will go on for me someday with either Vi or Emacs but I doubt it, probably only if I am forced to do so.

By: Rob Bazinet

Rob Bazinet — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:35:00 +0000

@josh – I wonder why people move to different editors sometimes. It almost seems like sheep following the crowd. On the Mac, it seems TextMate is the smoothest, where Visual Studio on Windows. I probably have not given Vi or Emacs a fair shake but they seem antiquated with their little add-ons for Rails (for example) to be hack jobs to paste over an antiquated editor.
Maybe a lightbulb will go on for me someday with either Vi or Emacs but I doubt it, probably only if I am forced to do so.

By: Josh Nichols

Josh Nichols — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:41:58 +0000

I used vim for years, but when I got a Mac and started doing Rails development, I kinda just went with the flow, and switched to TextMate.

About a year into it, I realized how powerful a programming editor could be. But, I also missed some of the powerful text manipulations (ie being able to cut, copy, or paste arbitrary number of characters, words, lines, etc).

Then about the time that a lot of people started talking about switching to vim or emacs, I gave vim another try. Knowing what pieces I liked from TextMate, it was possible to achieve similar or better functionality.

Really though, it really doesn't matter what you use, as long your able to productive. It is pretty sweet that people are talking about their text editors. A little feature-envy of one editor might inspire improvements in others.