Textmate is Expensive…

Author: Duane Johnson

26 Apr

I was witness to this gem on the freenode.net #textmate channel:

quellhorst: textmate is expensive
rhacer: textmate isn’t expensive at all.
quellhorst: it is when you have to buy a mac first
canadaduane: lol
quellhorst: which i did this week

Apple, you should be paying attention right now.

Filed under: Software Engineering

6 Responses for "Textmate is Expensive…"

josh April 26th, 2006 at 5:18 pm 1
I’ve already pointed this out to several friends who work at Apple. I love it that people will buy a several thousand dollar Mac just to run a text editor!
Mark Imbriaco April 26th, 2006 at 5:54 pm 2
You think that’s bad? I bought a MacBook Pro, and one of the main reasons was so I could partake of the TextMate goodness. No complaints about that, it’s worth every penny and I love the MBP — but now the plot thickens:

I need to send my MBP in for service and I don’t have any other Macs. I’m now contemplating buying a “backup Mac” just so I can continue developing on TextMate. The very thought of going back to a Linux desktop or to Windows is completely impalatable.
namxam April 30th, 2006 at 3:24 pm 3
well, after reading all day long academic literature, this really made my day.
Phil Sherry May 2nd, 2006 at 4:00 am 4
Apple take note, indeed. I’m already betting that Rails will be included in OS X 10.5, so throwing TextMate in there would make total sense. It would be pretty nifty if TextMate was bundled in with OS X. Let’s hope that they don’t completely kill the application, if they decide to buy it.
keith May 29th, 2006 at 7:15 am 5
If apple buy TextMate, I hope Allan Odgaard is part of the deal. Future development of TextMate without Allan Odgaard is too scary for me to contemplate.

Here’s a thought: If Apple did buy TextMate (and Allan), Allan would probably then get access to the Terminal.app code. Imagine being able to have a full terminal session inside TextMate. Not just being able to run commands, but have a session.

Every time I am in the rails console I think to myself “why am I not in TextMate doing this?”
omgoosh July 18th, 2006 at 1:28 pm 6
I almost did buy a mac when I saw TextMate. But the unintelligent ctrl+a macro was a little upsetting, which it looks like maybe you have a plugin for? I guess I’ll get to reading.