Comments on: Eclipse to Textmate: An IDEological Change

By: Rexibit Web Services

Rexibit Web Services — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:14:40 +0000

Eclipse is a great editor. I found it a couple months ago and have enjoyed it for Java programming.

By: phpghz

phpghz — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:32:06 +0000

Great review,

Textmate is nice editor ,, but i m using textmate port for windows called E-Texteditor + cygwin

adding features like intellisense will be great

By: alan blount

alan blount — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:21:38 +0000

I highly recommend jEdit... similarly extensable w/ plugins and language support for almost anything, and it java based, so i can take it to my windows/mac/linux platforms and it travels with all my settings.

By: Jak

Jak — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:36:32 +0000

Great review, i'm definately going to give textmate a try.

I'm a web developer and i've been using Coda by panic for a long time, you should give it a try because its great when working with remotely hosted files.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:24:47 +0000

Thanks for this great write up.

I’m using a slightly modified Sunburst theme which can be found at http://wiki.macromates.com/Themes/UserSubmittedThemes

By: rborn

rborn — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:02:02 +0000

I switched to mac a little time ago, coming form linux world. I am a PHP, Javascript developer, and i tried to find something more like Quanta. Textmate need some effort from the coder, to get used with, but once you got it....is addictive. Anyway I missed a code structure extension, and a way to open under tabs, not windows more files, not related to a projects. I found the solution for this, even if only partially. I wrote this article: textmate tricks that tells how to do this.

By: Michael Whalen

Michael Whalen — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:11:09 +0000

@John Topley: Yea I've always dreaded using that feature as well because it is soooo incredibly slow. But recently, as in the past few weeks, it's been excellent! I'm not too sure what it is because there are a few factors of my development env that have changed recently, but I certainly love using it now. I'm working on an 8-core mac pro now most of the time opposed to my macbook pro (however, it seems to be blazing fast on the macbook pro too now) and I am also now running the "Cutting-Edge" releases of Textmate which haven't given me any problems.

@Alex Vazquez: In a currently open file you can jump to a class or method (bottom of the window, dropdown on the far right), but you can't do that project-wide (as far as I know) with Textmate.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:07:03 +0000

One of the best things about Eclipse is highlighting the name of a method and hitting alt+shift+r (rename). Changing the name of the method and hitting the enter key renames every call to that method in your project. The refactoring tools in general are what keep me in Eclipse.

By: Alex Vazquez

Alex Vazquez — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:38:28 +0000

It seems like folks want something more than find in project and that’s why they have complaints. I’ve seen a lot of folks want jump to method or jump to class style functionality. Trust me I’d like to see these myself but I still think the UI for jump to file is well done.

By: John Topley

John Topley — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:10:48 +0000

It’s interesting that you mention TextMate’s Find in Project feature, because that’s generally considered to be one of it’s weakest points!