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textmate.el

Emacs Lisp2010–2014

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textmate.el

Basic emulation of awesome TextMate features for Emacs.

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Basic emulation of awesome TextMate features for Emacs.

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2011	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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subsection1h·Feb 26, 2014

I wonder how long Atom has been usable. Chris stopped updating his Emacs packages in 2012.[1][2] [1] https://github.com/defunkt/coffee-mode/commits/master?page=7 [2] https://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el/commits/master

In Atom

noelwelsh·Sep 26, 2011

textmate.el is decent. https://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el

In Textmate 2 - Alpha this year

jroes·May 29, 2011

Defunkt has actually ported a lot of cool textmate features including find-in-project over here in textmate.el: https://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el/

In VimAck: A port of TextMate's Find-in-Project feature for MacVim.app

sjs·May 29, 2010

I switched to Emacs so I could use the same editor on Linux and OS X. I made the switch wholesale and used TM only to look at diffs or browse a project quickly (Emacs need something like the project drawer, and speedbar isn't the answer). I forgot about all the nice things I liked about TM. defunkt's textmate.el gets you part of the way there but isn't enough. I've had to implement lots of small things and discover features I didn't know about Emacs (global-auto-revert-mode). Right now I'm working on selecting an enclosed region (ie. find the innermost text surrounded by a pair of quotes or parens/braces/brackets and select it), which is Cmd-Shift-B in TM. A friend and co-worker uses TM and the little niceties have tempted me to switch back since I mainly use OS X these days, however I'm simply better off with Emacs. TM is great but unfor

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tunately while TM2 is in the works TM users are left out in the cold. There aren't many things Emacs doesn't already do due to its nature (open source and tradition of sharing code) and the things it doesn't do I can write myself. So I can bring Emacs up to speed with TM but not the other way around. Open source is a giant win for developer tools. I don't want to bash TM or disrespect all the hard work Allan has put and is putting into TM. TM has influenced just about every modern text editor on many platforms and we are all better off because of TM even if we never used it. But if you're not happy with TM there are viable alternatives. We all know the drawbacks to systems with a SPOF and it's not a good trade-off for a development tool as critical as your text editor. Sorry Allan, I truly am, but as TM2 takes longer and longer it gives people a big reason to migrate to another editor. Once switched, it's going to be a tough sell to get people to switch back without any guarantee that such a thing will never happen again. Especially if they switch to an infinitely customizable editor such as vim or Emacs where it's possible to mimic TM's best features, even if it's not as easy as in TM. If any TM users do try Emacs get github.com/defunkt/textmate.el and have a look at github.com/samsonjs/config/tree/master/emacs for TM-refugee goodies.

In Allan Odgaard's Latest Comments on TextMate 2

justinweiss·May 25, 2010

IDO is 100% necessary for decent code navigation in emacs, but it's also worth trying textmate.el (http://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el), PeepOpen (http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen), or my fuzzy-find-in-project (http://github.com/justinweiss/fuzzy-find-in-project) for something like, but more flexible than, TextMate's command-T functionality.

In Ask HN: What code editor do you use?