![]() Apple has even acknowledged this and are including Rails with Leopard. These points all demonstrate that TextMate has rapidly become a standard of its own in the text editor market, and it has undoubtedly help OS X become the de facto platform for Rails development. they've ended up actually buying a MacBook (or similar) after several months, and continue to rave about TextMate ( Jamie van Dyke is one example that sticks in my mind). 4) If you've been floating around the various freenode Ruby and Rails related channels in the past couple of years, you'll have undoubtedly seen at least several Windows or Linux users drop by raving about TextMate and lamenting their inability to buy a Mac. 3) There's even a 200 page book about TextMate on the market. ![]() 2) A few people have converted TextMate's snippets to operate in other editors. So why? 1) The E-TextEditor homepage mentions TextMate six times. If Allan isn't interested in selling it, then fine, but if he is, it could be a big win for both him and Apple. I can't speak on his behalf, so just take the following as editorial waffle, but I think Apple should buy TextMate and release it for free or at low cost (as currently). ![]() I don't know Allan Odgaard, the developer of TextMate, at all, but I'm a happy user of the editor, despite not understanding almost any of the advanced features. If you're a Windows user, give it a look. The initial reports I've read about it are that it's rather good, and after watching the screencast I'd say it looks to be a pretty good editor and I'd give it a try if if used Windows. Over at the O'Reilly Ruby Blog, Jim Alateras laments the recent stalling of development on RadRails, but suggests an alternative solution: E-TextEditor, a "TextMate" alternative for Windows.
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