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skyton

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I have used Textmate for coding for a few years, but am currently looking around at alternatives.

I was wondering what other people are using?
 
Textwrangler is probably the cheapest alternative. Many people swear by that text editor
 
Textmate > Textwrangler IMO

I went with Coda for now but still grab SubEthaEdit every now and then.
 
I had to get Oxygen a couple years ago for school and I've been using it since. I've been very pleased with its results. For what it's worth, it has a nice Dropbox integration as well.
 
Although I wouldn't be much use in a nitty and gritty comparison since have mainly used TextMate for latex, Sublime Text 2 seems to be somewhat of a spiritual successor (since TM2 is in limbo).
 
Thats what I was wondering

I wish TM2 would hurry up and come out - would solve my problem I think :)
 
I wouldn't hold your breath on seeing an upgrade on Textmate, that's more vaporware then anything at this point. How many years has it been promised for?
 
skyton said:
Thats what I was wondering

I wish TM2 would hurry up and come out - would solve my problem I think :)
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Whoops, sorry. Blurry evening eyes. :p

I actually caved in and bought a ST2 license but as I said I probably wouldn't be of much help with the details. Currently it'll only be for latex and a bit of html.

So far I can at least say that it handles Japanese (TM didn't in any meaningful sense) and seems plenty fast compared to TM even with large files. Multi selection is great as well.

Try the package control plug-in to discover new packages easily. Check here for a few other tidbits as well.

Peraps try the latest beta or dev build. They both seem to be full versions and nag windows are at a minimum.
 
blipmusic said:
Whoops, sorry. Blurry evening eyes. :p

I actually caved in and bought a ST2 license but as I said I probably wouldn't be of much help with the details. Currently it'll only be for latex and a bit of html.

So far I can at least say that it handles Japanese (TM didn't in any meaningful sense) and seems plenty fast compared to TM even with large files. Multi selection is great as well.

Try the package control plug-in to discover new packages easily. Check here for a few other tidbits as well.

Peraps try the latest beta or dev build. They both seem to be full versions and nag windows are at a minimum.
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Thanks for the info - sounds interesting
Guess i will end up road testing a few and see what I like

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maflynn said:
I wouldn't hold your breath on seeing an upgrade on Textmate, that's more vaporware then anything at this point. How many years has it been promised for?
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True, true
But you never know!
 
BBEdit (or its free alternative TextWrangler) and MacVim (free) are my two main text editors. While vim has a large learning curve, it's very powerful and light and well worth the time to learn. I like BBEdit because of its extendability. I've made a number of scripts that can be used with it and help me code a lot faster.
 
Textmate is surprisingly robust once you begin creating your own themes and snippets. If you've been using Texmate for a few years already, this is likely something you already know. What is TM lacking that you would like to find in another editor? Or is this a case of app boredom (I can understand that, I've been there myself)?

For my workflow -- and I've tried Espresso/CSSEdit, Coda, BBedit and Dreamweaver -- TM coupled with Cyberduck has always fulfilled my needs. Add to that the Zencoding, mHTML and mCSS packages, and you have yourself a recipe for semantic efficiency.
 
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Komodo Edit. For a free code editor, it's pretty robust. Even when I try other editors I keep coming back to it.
 
I use BBedit, I also have ultra edit which was a PC only text editor and I use that exclusively at work. I had hoped a lot of the usefulness of the PC version would be in the OSX version but not so much. I like BBedit but its a bit bloated. I haven't retested textwranger to see if its a little more lightweight.

I've called text mate vaporware but that doesn't mean I don't like it, in fact if they ever came out with version 2, I'd probably buy it. Its a great mixture of performance, lightweight but powerful.
 
john1620b said:
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Komodo Edit. For a free code editor, it's pretty robust. Even when I try other editors I keep coming back to it.
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Another vote for Komodo Edit. I highly recommend giving this one at least a shot.

I use TextWrangler some as well, but just the other day had some weird issues with special characters. May have been user error though. PHP is usually sensitive but this was SQL, so IDK.

I will end up trying out BBEdit I'm sure, and I have wanted Coda for while, but it's a little steep for my budget at the moment.
 
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