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Ask HN: alternatives to Textmate?

3 pointsby friendstockover 14 years ago
It seems Textmate 2.0 is taking forever to develop... what editors (for Mac OS) do you recommend for code development? Thanks!

7 comments

mbenjaminsmithover 14 years ago
When I'm not in Xcode, my preferred editor is Komodo Edit (with the optional Vim bindings turned on). It's the editor portion of their IDE and is free.
brianlashover 14 years ago
If you're married to the TextMate UX you should look at BBedit.<p>If you're open to trying an all-in-one I'd add Espresso from macrabbit and Coda from panic to my short list. Between the two I think most consider it a toss-up, although I slightly prefer the former.
RBerenguelover 14 years ago
I can't help but recommending Carbon Emacs. And probably someone else will come and recommend vim. I won't advocate more than needed, it is just awesome ;)
kevinelliottover 14 years ago
I haven't really seen an editor that has all the shortcut, macro, and bundle features that TextMate offers.
quellhorstover 14 years ago
I have switched to macvim + peepopen.
spooneybargerover 14 years ago
emacs? vim? bbedit?
RDDaviesover 14 years ago
vim.