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Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by christiangenco on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:11PM (#8468667)
Serious question: is anyone still using TextMate? Everyone I personally know who used to use it (mostly web developers) has switched to Sublime.
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by smmnyc on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:20PM (#8468698)
I used TM 1 back in the day, then used Sublime for a while (3-4 months), but got curious and started using TM 2 and have kept with it ever since. On a Mac it just felt snappier and more native, but it might just be that old habits die hard. I installed Janus today and keep trying to make the jump but can't get myself to stick with it.
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by danh1979 on Thursday October 16, 2014 @09:02PM (#8468860)
I've been using the TextMate 2 alphas for several years as my daily driver text editor (mainly for: C/C++, python, shell scripts, CMake, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and occasional advanced editing for email and other documents).

I occasionally use vi(m) in a terminal for quick tasks, but I find TextMate to be a very comfortable environment for a combination Mac user/command line jockey.

Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by aaronbrethorst on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:15PM (#8468678)
I switched from TextMate 1 to Sublime, hated it, and switched to TextMate 2.
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by jastanton on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:26PM (#8468725)
Why did you hate it?
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by aaronbrethorst on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:56PM (#8468837)
Primarily because it didn't feel anything like a Mac app.
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by jastanton on Friday October 17, 2014 @03:13PM (#8472816)
The UI can always be updated, being proficient in something no matter how it looks will take you farther than hoping on or abandoning tools based on their appearance.
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by aaronbrethorst on Friday October 17, 2014 @06:44PM (#8473803)
Who said anything about looks? I'm talking about how it feels. Very important distinction, and not something that seems fixable for a cross platform app. I'd been using TextMate since 2006, and I was extremely proficient with it. I only gave it up because it was so outdated (main thread find-in-files, e.g.).
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by Turing_Machine on Thursday October 16, 2014 @09:49PM (#8468994)
Still using it here, out of inertia.

That's probably going to change since I've been doing a lot more Scheme these days (and am starting to seriously look into Arc). Time to dust off those emacs skills...

Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by auvi on Friday October 17, 2014 @10:01AM (#8470997)
I tried TextMate, Sublime, Atom and found that I use TextMate most of the time as the TextMate shortcuts went to my muscle memory. I believe I can change the shortcuts for Atom or Sublime to match TextMate's but I stayed with TM2.
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by Tehnix on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:37PM (#8468767)
I use TextMate 2 and MacVim. Used to use TM 1 back in the days before TM2.

I don't know why, but there's something about the feel of ST2/3 that just irks me.

Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by jmspring on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:47PM (#8468804)
Used TM1 for years. I've since moved to BBEdit.
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by sathomasga on Thursday October 16, 2014 @09:43PM (#8468978)
I'll be using it now! After TM1.5 kind of withered away I switched to Chocolat.app, but I'm psyched to have TextMate back.
Re:TextMate 2.0 Hits Beta 1 milestone by _asummers on Thursday October 16, 2014 @09:16PM (#8468897)
I use it as my "I don't feel like figuring out how to do this in emacs right now" editor.