Re:Textmate2 Goes Open Source
by petercooper on Thursday August 09, 2012 @03:57PM
(#4362913)
It's main saving grace was the many extensions it had, and looking half-decent and native on OS X.
One of the key features it had in the early days, that most other OS X editors did not, was a file tree drawer that worked well. From the terminal, you could type "mate ." and you'd have an editor with a file drawer right there. No "project" BS, no modal dialogs to navigate around files.. all very handy for working on file heavy Rails projects.
Re:Textmate2 Goes Open Source
by mdemare on Thursday August 09, 2012 @04:06PM
(#4362956)
Exactly. Window is folder and tabs are files, that arrangement feels completely natural, and Vim never got there with all its own buffers and windows and tabs and so on. Nothing else ever got there (on OSX) until Sublime.
One of the key features it had in the early days, that most other OS X editors did not, was a file tree drawer that worked well. From the terminal, you could type "mate ." and you'd have an editor with a file drawer right there. No "project" BS, no modal dialogs to navigate around files.. all very handy for working on file heavy Rails projects.