Nevermind all the plugins and bundles
Whether it fits your taste or not, ignoring the plugins and bundles is missing the whole picture. The bundle system together with the fact that it has had a large and strong community backing it up for years is a major, major plus. There are existing bundles out there for almost everything, often even for obscure frameworks/languages. For example, if you don't think you'd want commands or snippets to toy around with new languages, think about syntax highlighting.
Re:TextMate is getting ready for Lion
by pavel_lishin on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @03:30PM
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What makes Sublime Text a superior editor to Textmate? I use Textmate, and I'm moderately happy with it, but could be convinced to switch.
I prefer TextMate over any IDE.
What makes it a poor text editor, or qualifies it as being "dated"?
Things like a blog post in late 2006 promising support for something I've wanted in the app without hacks in TM 2.0. Now that I think about how that's almost half a decade ago, I'm feeling even more jaded than usual about TM 2.0's existence.
Re:TextMate is getting ready for Lion
by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @06:45PM
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The first comment on that post is, almost five years later, sadly hilarious.
"I am 90% decided on switching to CoreText for text rendering (and making 2.0 Leopard only)…"
Hooo… what a clever idea. I wonder how many license renewals you'll miss. One at the very minimum.
As for me, I'll be waiting for Sublime Text 2 to get out of beta. I use the free Komodo editor for now.