Textmate 2: "I'm not dead yet!"

November 27, 2008 • 1 min read


This post is over ten years old. Chances are, I've learned enough to have advanced my thinking about some of this stuff.

It’s odd how something that seems like a perfect piece of software will start to aggravate you if it goes stale for long enough. I would be thrilled with a Textmate 1.6 that fixes a few bugs ((Multi-file search and replace bugs, especially. Argh.)), since it’s still a capable editor. So, two years after 1.5 is released, I go hunting for news:

There is no ETA, and I won’t speak about timing before I am certain I can provide an (alpha/beta) release within the next month… So put TM 2.0 up there with Duke Nukem Forever and be positively surprised the day it is released :)

Uh oh. I smell Second System effectPeter Haza’s reports from the TextMate IRC channel earlier this year confirm it, listing many new features and saying it’s a complete rewrite. Hopefully Allan Odgaard doesn’t feel like Textmate 2 needs to be featureful enough to justify the wait, or the wait could never end.


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