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TextMate 2 came out a while ago. It changed its name to "Sublime Text 2" and it is awesome.

You must be talking about the alpha release that was released end of last year? My joke about TM's new release turned out to be not so good.

I'm pretty sure that the GP just made a joke that at least didn't work for you.

The GP is likely referring to this sentiment: "I started to realize that Sublime Text seemed to be everything many of us had hoped for in Textmate 2, but in software that was available today in a polished, fully functional version, not a just a rather buggy alpha preview."

-- http://casperfabricius.com/site/2012/01/24/my-first-week-wit...

If only all these attempts at vim clones were instead spent on vim.

Sublime Text is most definitely not a vim clone. It may have a vi-ish mode, but it's fairly weak. Sublime Text is in the TextMate/Notepad++ space.

Wait did you just say that TextMate wasn't based on vim?

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