This is an editor of the decade! - zmittie

Yeah, so, I was looking for something to replace BBEdit and its tired interface. A friend pointed me to TextMate. I tried it for a day or two and was pretty impressed. So, I payed the shareware fee. After about a month of trying to integrate TextMate into my workflow I finally gave up and switched to TextWrangler. TextWrangler is a better editor.

FTP
That whole use TextMate with Transit thing is clunky and cumbersome. The FTP browser in TextWrangler isn't great but it does what it needs to do. I want to edit remote text files.

General Interface
TextWrangler's interface is no award winner but it is better than TextMate. The 'roll your own' approach to interface design is lazy. Fancy color schemes are more a distraction than a benefit.

Those were the deal breakers for me. As I said, I was and still am tired of TextWrangler. I'd love to find a replacement. But, in my opinion, TextMate has just as many problems and issues as BBEdit/TextWrangler. Better the devil I know than one I don't.

Aloha

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Friday, January 06 2006 @ 10:09 AM PST

This is an editor of the decade! - thebroz

I agree with some of your comments.

But, CVS support is still critical. Telling me subversion is better is sorta silly. Of course it's better. You want to come over here and convert about 35 CVS repositories to Subversion, including the history, and do it for free? We're using subversion for new projects going forward, but that doesn't answer the question of using TextMate for CVS. It's a missing feature, and it's important.

I don't have problems with the FTP/SFTP support in BBEdit. I've used Interarchy w/BBEdit as well. It works. Fine. But to tell someone they should use a separate file transfer client means they would have to buy an additional application. That puts the cost of TextMate at near the cost of BBEdit. Most serious developers would probably want a file transfer client, but still...

I will give TextMate another try. I've been writing code for about 20 years, and spend a lot of time in text editors. At this point, TextMate does not "rock". It's nice, and has smart features. Its UI needs work.

Bottom line: using TextMate slows me down.

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Monday, January 09 2006 @ 08:13 AM PST