On the TextMate 2 Public Alpha
Nice overview of the alpha release of TextMate by Kevin Lipe. The best part of the release for me, as Lipe echoes, isn’t actually part of the software; it’s knowing that my favorite text editor hasn’t been abandoned. (And still loving that new icon!)
It’ll be familiar to you and still feel new and exciting. It’s not ready for primetime yet. It crashes weirdly. Stuff breaks. But, more than anything, it feels good to know that it exists, and that it really is a major evolution of the things that made the original TextMate so good. I’m going to keep using it for real work until I run into an issue that forces me back to the old version. Time will tell how well I get along with the half-baked bundle editor, but I’m sure it’ll get better.
