There has been a lot of chatter regarding a promised release of TextMate 2 this year (2011) or before Christmas (presumably 2011) and Allan Odgaard’s questionable promise that TextMate 2 would be a free upgrade to existing TextMate customers. The fact remains that if you purchased a license for TextMate and then spent a few hours to get to know it, you probably loved it. I did, and I do.
The promise of a TextMate 2 upgrade was nice but after the vaporware dramedy that ensued in the years following the announcement it seemed irrational to expect it to be realized. Many people complained. Many people remained highly satisfied with the powerful features and relative stability of TextMate. Others jumped ship to explore alternative text editors.
Until very recently I fell into the highly satisfied TextMate user camp. I wasn’t too interested in current developments in the text editor world. To me, TextMate 2 was a shiny thing off in the hazy distance. It was possibly even a solution looking for a problem. Its delayed release was a better source of laughs than disappointment.
TextMate met my needs day and and day out. The mailing list was helpful, and the sporadic option-click Check for updates minor fixes from Allan addressed most issues that I would encounter. The good parts greatly outweighed the bad parts.
Then, one day I got bored, and I discovered Sublime Text 2…