News About TextMate 2
Finally Allan Odgaard posted a new blog about the current state of TextMate 2.
So where does development stand for 2.0? It feels to me like most of the
modules are getting close, say 90%. But as they say, on the horizon,
mountains look small.The requests for TextMate 1 have mostly been incremental additions such
as split views, chunked undo, and editing over SFTP. But TextMate 2 is
about more than new surface features. Every part has been completely
rewritten to take advantage of the lessons learned from the years of
version 1. Not only are the low-level data structures chosen for
increased flexibility, but the abstractions on which TextMate is
built—snippets, scope-based language grammars, context-dependent
settings—have been rethought and are more powerful than ever. In the
coming months, I’ll try to describe some of these new abstractions, but
for now, know that I am excited about the new ideas involved.
Sounds great. After many years of hearing “TextMate 2 is still under development” I was afraid that TextMate 2 would become the new Duke Nukem Forever. Glade] to here it’s still alive. I really hope they’ve already found a better solution to handle CJK characters since that’s the main reason I switched to BBEdit a few months ago. (And I’m happy with BBEdit right now, solid and sound.)
I have enlisted a technical writer to help bring this blog back to life,
and I’ll try to communicate more of TextMate’s status and direction
through him.
Hopes we can hear more about the progress from him, I’m pretty curious about how TextMate 2 will looks like. And hopefully we can see a Alpha build months later?
Keep up the good work, Allan! (And please post more news about TextMate 2…)
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