NCIANCA  I like TextMate as a general text editor and registered my copy when it was still in pre-release way back in the day. Coda, with its workflow, superb UI, project tools, auto-completion, editors and other tools has become my tool for web sites, I still use TextMate for all my other text needs, such as shell programming and general text manipulation.

However, I'm disappointed that its been a year now since the last release. I understand that the next version will be a complete rewrite, but there are a number of small "issues" that would have benefited from an interim release. The lack of releases also give the appearance that TextMate has been abandoned, though I'm sure it hasn't.

While Allan is very responsive to emails, there is nothing on the TextMate site about the future of TextMate or its progress. The blog is updated every now and then, but mostly announcing a new bundle.

Overall TextMate is an excellent editor and I hope that it will continue to be part of my daily tools in the future.  
(Version 1.5.7)

PROMETHEAS  Allow me preface this comment by mentioning that TextMate is an absolutely great text editor.

The problem is, it feels like it's gone stagnant.

Since TextMate's last minor release, the Panic team has brought Coda to the table (after which 1.5 years have passed), and BBEdit has dropped two major versions since TextMate 1.0 was released.

It's gone too long since a major (or minor) release.

Although Allan is in fact just one man working on this software (vs. a team of n-many that BareBones probably has), there's something nonetheless to be said about remaining competitive.

Unfortunately, it's starting to feel like nothing is going on here, while the other two attractive competitors keep innovating.  
(Version 1.5.7)

ICONZ113  I agree this needs to be in red, best editor or osx.  
(Version 1.5.9)

ADAM BYRTEK  I started writing my thesis in Vim, using LaTeX, and then decided to try TextMate. IÂ’m amazed by the fact that itÂ’s clean and simple without losing extra power for more advanced users. But the bottom line is that by the time my file approached 64kB in size, TextMate was not responsive anymore (on new MacBook). It was able to work, but the delay after every keypress was annoying. Looks like I will stay with Vim at the end.  
(Version 1.5.6)

FREEBSD  I really tried to like this piece of software, but it never was able to make it into my daily routine. It is incredibly feature packed and does certain things quite well, such as markup and line highlighting. It's also incredibly extensible, by people who are able to write extensions for this program.

I tried using it primarily for HTML, MATLAB, and LaTeX, but I'm going to stick with vim - just can't seem to switch, sorry.  
(Version 1.5.4)

DAN BRIGGS  I've tried a lot of text editors in my 25 years developer life but this one is simply the best one. It's almost perfect and even better than TextPad on Windows. Add the Project+ plugin and your developer environment is rock solid. I use every day 400+ php/html/css files with MAMP in every project and I need speed. TextMate is always fast and responsive, very simple to use for beginners and still very very complete for geeks. I bought Coda and Espresso too but they are far from TextMate in many cases. With TextMate I can work as twice as fast on my php/html/css code. It's true that the others are better on presenting html and css but when you know these languages a little, everything is done by copying ans pasting part of code to new places. Add Safari and Transmit for your ftp and you got the best and fastest development environment someone can have. Long life to TextMate and thank you to all community for this piece of Art. AL-Paris.  
(Version 1.5.8)

STRIDER72  Just testing it out, I've quickly discovered what I consider a fatal flaw: the Undo functionality is nearly useless.

If you type in a string of text, undo will reverse the typing letter-by-letter. To undo a sentence I have to hit command-z 20 or 30 times. Completely ridiculous.

I've had my eye on this program for a while now, and I really _want_ to like it, but every time I look at it again there's always something screwy like this to ruin it.

Overall it seems a good program, with (so far) one tragic fatal flaw. Hope for the future, but not really usable for now.  
(Version 1.5.7)

ZACHWILL  I normally don't write reviews, but this app is worthy of an exception. This is by far the best text editor available. The bundles, tab triggers, and ability to customize snippets makes this app worthwhile. I literally code 10x faster with TextMate (incredibly reminiscent of how I felt after finding Quiksilver a couple years ago).  
(Version 1.5.9)

NCIANCA  I sure hope "Avian" makes an appearance soon, which is supposed to be free to registered users. Alan, I'm sure that most TM2 prospective users would be filling to pay a reasonable upgrade fee if that gets it into our hands faster.

Software doesn't age well like a good wine, but rather becomes vinegar when the underlying APIs of its foundation evolve, thus broadening the time curve gap.

And I really hope that my next comment on TM will be singing the TM2 praises.  
(Version 1.5.9)

MISHA  Mac OS X 10.6 users:

TextMateÂ’s command-left/right arrow key functionality (one of the most commonly used keystrokes) is broken in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

FortunatelyÂ’ thereÂ’s a fix. Edit (or create) the file named ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict and add the following lines to the end:

"@\UF702" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";

"@\UF703" = "moveToEndOfLine:";

"$@\UF702" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";

"$@\UF703" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";

Quit and re-launch TextMate, and your precious key-combo should be working again.   
(Version 1.5.8)