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Re:Textmate2 Goes Open Source by rpwilcox on Thursday August 09, 2012 @01:28PM (#4362134)
What drew me to TM1 were the several innovative features for the time (mid 2000s) that were promptly copied into other editors (and sometimes improved there):

  * snippets
  * fuzzy file finder
  * project file list
  * multi-column editing
This is in addition to the non-text related good things TM did: grouping languages, snippets and scripts into a single folder, the bundle community, etc.

However, those 4 features were what moved me over to TM - I was more than willing to plunk down my $50 for these features that no other editor (at the time) had

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Re:Textmate2 Goes Open Source by astrodust on Saturday August 11, 2012 @09:08PM (#4371475)
The fact that the file list correlated to the contents of a directory was a huge deal. XCode and other editors require "projects" to be assembled. TextMate could also ignore certain paths if configured correctly, cleaning up projects considerably.

I used SubEthaEdit prior to TextMate and was quite happy, but it lacked multi-file editing and tabs.

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