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I can't handle how good this app is. I used SubEthaEdit for a long time, and really liked it, but after 1 hour with TextMate I was completely hooked. It's changed the way I write code.

Great for Actionscript too. Command+Enter launches the Preview of the Flash file open in the background reducing App juggling.

I agree with alderete that this requires a little more investment than just 'trying it out'; as a bbedit user for 10 years, and having used homesite and dreamweaver extensivley when on a PC, this is hands-down the best editor I've ever used. I've been using textmate exclusively for over a year; it's bbedit meets emacs. THIS IS NOT AN IDE, so comparing this to eclipse, IDEA, or whatever is not apples to apples. if you are writing code of any kind, there's probably a bundle you can use, and investigating this is well worth your time. shell integration is also really cool, and this is a good tool for markdown-based project management.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this editor. Incredible! One question that's been bugging me for a while though. I hand-code all my HTML/CSS so it's not a huge deal, but every now and then I forget an attribute name or some piece of syntax. Is there any way to have TextMate auto-suggest attributes like Dreamweaver/BBEdit kinda do? Like if I'm writing CSS and I type "border-style:", have it drop down a list that says "solid, dotted, dashed, double... etc"?

I feel like this is too good an App to not have a feature like that, so I must just be missing it?

TextMate is great! It's in my dock along side SubEthaEdit and skEdit and I use them all every day. I'm way more productive using skEdit for PHP and HTML though.

TextMate is like a TextEdit on Steroids. It is a great little app, that runs fast, opens fast, and is a light-weight lil' app where you can edit many different programming languages, and see the different syntaxes for each! I have it in my dock 24 / 7 since I first tryed it, and I recently bought it. A little expensive, but its worth it.

Just perfect for people who want colored synthax edition and have color vision problems, like me. And even better when you find several little helpful things like "sort and remove duplicate", or all those snipets, "search in project" and project gestion, and so on. And it IS light and easy to use. Really, Thumbs up !

This is the greatest. I love it. I also own SubEthaEdit, but only use that for its collaboration feature.

The only editor for Mac who has the feature to turn off anti-alias, as far as i know. Highly customizable syntax coloring, too.

Has no auto-complete, but with customized snippets, there is no need for this.

Simply the best text editor I have ever used on the mac! Worth every penny!

Useless for Japanese and other East Asian languages.

Actually, textmate is usable for CJK, including Japanese, with the CJK-Input plugin.

Every time I use TextMate, I discover another lovely little feature which makes my life simpler. Hooray!

This is a great text editor. I just wish it offered a more sophisticated search feature. I find my self going to BBEdit whenever I need to do a complicated GREP (for the search coloring) and multifile search and replace.

This is a must have. It is one of the applications that reminds why you switched to the Mac.

Sure wish the author of TextMate would support the standard Mac OS X "Accessibility Interface" and the standard text rendering interface that allows Unicode fonts to be used. There are some great features in TextMate, but if you are living outside of monolingual ASCIIville, or have special needs (vision impairment, etc) that require the standard apple accessibility API, you should look elsewhere.

Love it. Lightweight, fast, easy to use, extensible, has support from 3rd party apps (Transmit) and is cost effective. Did I mention that the syntax support is very very extensive and very accurate? Java, C/C++, Ruby, Perl, Python, and sed/awk scripts are great to code in this editor. The developer also personally responds to e-mails, and has a very good upgrade policy. He will give away TextMate 2.0 to people who upgrade to Leopard when it comes out. The new CoreData features offered by Leopard and new bundles in development internally and from ADC members are surely gonna make this even more of an awesome editor! Keep up the good work Allan Odgaard! Be sure to support this developer by buying his awesome and cost effective editor.

just this app is a reason to switch to OS X (if the other billion of reasons don't suite you)

I saw it in other places, but basically: If you like Emacs, you'll like TextMate. If you prefer vim, look at BBEdit. The chording, associations and methods are very emacs-ish.

Personally, TextMate is closed only long enough to pull the most recent code from svn.

the best editor E V E R. must have!