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)

GRFX GURU  Excellent program, and honestly I'm surprised (but happy) to see a minor update after all this time.

I thought for sure after all the talk about the new version waiting for Leopard to be released and then nothing indicated the developers had either stopped or no longer cared to update TextMate.  
(Version 1.5.8)

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)

TOMKOX  I do not see reason to buy "just another colorized" text editor, if I have for free Xcode 3.0 (with Organizer option - excelent for Rails projects etc.)...  
(Version 1.5.7)

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)

FREEBSD  My workspace consists of 2 xterm windows running screen and multiple instances of vim. It's incredibly fast and efficient for me.

However, sometimes when I am wishing for something a bit more modern (and screen keystrokes get a bit tiring after awhile), I try and move to TextMate. Unfortunately, I could never learn the emacs keybindings after all these years, nor do I wish to.

I am sure it's been said a hundred times before, but there's a reason we love vim so much. If TextMate would add a command mode support environment that supported the primary keybindings for vim's command mode, then I would switch in an instant. That simple, really. Oh, and while I'm on this 'dear santa', tabs are key and missing.

Having said all of that, it is the ridiculous number of features already in TextMate that make it very appealing for future use. It's lightweight and fast, being native, and while I don't really know how to use all the crazy stuff that's built in, these are the two basic things that are keeping me from really getting into it. Most programs that are this feature-packed are bloated and difficult to use, but TextMate is already very nice.

I'll upgrade my license gladly for inclusion of these features. Otherwise, nice app. For me, almost worth the current price of admission.   
(Version 1.5.7)

ADAM BYRTEK  I started writing my thesis in Vim, using LaTeX, and then decided to try TextMate. I’m amazed by the fact that it’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)

NGOLES  This software is AMAZING, I am using it together with Xcode and almost all my Xcode headaches are gone!!!

you should add Tab support for non project files, so that when I open my Xcode project files with TExtMate ( set as default source code editr in Xcode ) , the sources go to their respective tabs.

PLEASE add that , and I will buy today!  
(Version 1.5.6)

TOBYS  simply the best of any editor i've used on any platform. I use this app every single day to earn my living, and I find new things that make me love it even more all the time. get the textmate book as well, it opens up a lot of the app's potential that you might have overlooked.  
(Version 1.5.5)