TextMate for Mac
Code/markup editor with many features.
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TextMate overview
TextMate is a versatile plain text editor with a unique and innovative feature set which caused it to win an Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X Developer Tool in August 2006
A rapidly growing community have created modes for more than a hundred different "modes" including support for all major programming languages, writing prose in structured formats such as LaTeX, Markdown, Textile, etc., blogging, running SQL queries, writing screen plays, doing your budget, and much much more
Some of the features include:
- Collapsable text blocks - fold away the code you don´t want to see
- Recordable macros - you don´t have to write a script to automate tedious work
- A CSS-inspired selector system which allows preferences and more to be applied to subsets of your document - you want return to do something different inside comments? or maybe you want spell checking enabled for your strings in C++, both can be done in seconds.
- Snippets with tab-able placeholders and live transformations on the text you enter
- Column operations - if you align your code nicely TextMate will reward you with eased editing!
- Superb shell integration - don´t worry if you are not familiar with bash, TextMate is here to teach you about all the wonders of the OS X UNIX underpinnings!
There is a gallery of screencasts showcasing more features at macromates
What’s new in version 2.0.23
Version 2.0.23:
View older TextMate versions - Miscellaneous improvements
Full changelog available here.
TextMate for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.0.23
What users say about TextMate
Value: 5.0
My most used piece of software - I've even almost completely stopped using office sweet stuff. Anything I can think I need to do with this I have been able to find a way to do it. One of the best applications I have ever used.
Ease of use: 4.0
I did need to scour the web to get some of the functionality I wanted out of it, but even with my limited programming skills I was able to get stuff done
Features: 5.0
Have been able to use it for academic markdown, even with citation autocompletion. Using this with Pandoc is incredible. It can also support almost any other language.
Other user ratings:
Reliability | 5.0
Customer support | 5.0
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Nov 27 2021
Version: 2.0.23
True Mac App, with power you would expect from an IDE. My favourite piece of software on my laptop.
Still being developed for free.
Incredibly extensible.
6 stars
Jul 21 2020
Version: 2.0.6
I've been a Textmate user since 2008 when I started programming Ruby. This is my go to editor for Ruby and C++. Fast, reliable and elegant. You will have to take it from my cold hands when I die, I fcking love it!
Feb 12 2020
Version: 2.0.6
I've used TextMate for 10 years now and couldn't be happier. I f*cking love it!
Sep 30 2019
Version: 2.0
Glad to see 2.0 released on 9/29/19. I've used this app since 2005! Later I switched mostly to Sublime Text and others, but could never quite let go of TextMate. So interesting and elegant, and now modernized (multiple cursors, etc.). It's currently free - "version 2.0 of TextMate is being developed as open source" - but that could change with 2.1, according to their website. No problem, it's worth paying for a license IMO. However I hope they'll go with donations instead of paid licenses, so people don't get mad about it moving back to proprietary software.
