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Serious question: is anyone still using TextMate? Everyone I personally know who used to use it (mostly web developers) has switched to Sublime.

I switched from TextMate 1 to Sublime, hated it, and switched to TextMate 2.

Why did you hate it?

Primarily because it didn't feel anything like a Mac app.

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.

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 I only gave it up because it was so outdated (main thread find-in-files, e.g.).

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.

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.

Used TM1 for years. I've since moved to BBEdit.

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.

I use it as my "I don't feel like figuring out how to do this in emacs right now" editor.

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.

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...

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.

This has probably been the most stable Alpha I've ever seen (it's been +3 years in alpha). I wonder what their requirements are before they call it final release.

I wonder if it's possible to build it under GNUStep. Has anyone tried?

That's like when you hear about new Firefox versions. Easy to forget these legacy softwares that were king of their day are still crawling around. I imagine both still have their followings and always will.

My friend, Firefox has half a billion active users. Half a billion. While their usage share has declined, the overall number of Internet users has grown, so the absolute number of Firefox users has remained stable or even grown.

source: https://blog.mozilla.org/press/ataglance/

Now maybe Mozilla is lying, which I suppose is possible, but they have a pretty good idea of how many people use Mozilla since nearly every copy of Firefox pings Mozilla's servers to check for updates on a regular basis.

Based on Mozilla's usage share relative to Chrome's usage share, that number seems to roughly jive with Google's claims for the number of active Chrome users: http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/25/5841924/google-android-use...

I wish I was so unfortunate as to create a "legacy softwares" that is still "crawling around" with such a huge, supportive, dedicated user base of half a billion people strong.

Chrome is flashy, thats all. But Firefox is extremely robust and a real work horse. Have 200+ tabs open and it works just fine. Dont forget "Old is Gold". Dont write off firefox JUST b'cos its old.

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