TextMate: First impressions
I’ve had a bit of a chance today to take TextMate for a test drive, and unlike 2lmc and Erik, I must say that I’m pretty impressed on the whole. OK, very impressed. Sure, it has a few rough edges, but it is a beta. And there seems to me to be enough slickness there to promise good things for the future. It’s very customisable and expandable, and I’m sure it won’t be long before we’re flooded with bundles to support syntax colouring, commands and snippets for dozens of languages. For now, the default tools are slanted towards HTML, PHP and Ruby. This is obviously disappointing if you’re a Perl geek (or a Shell scripting geek, or a LaTeX geek). However, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m learning Ruby at the moment and it makes a nice change to find a text editor with really good support for Ruby.
