TextMate is a versatile plain text editor with a unique and innovative feature set which caused it to win an Apple Design Award for Best Mac OS X Developer Tool in August 2006
A rapidly growing community have created modes for more than a hundred different 'modes' including support for all major programming languages, writing prose in structured formats such as LaTeX, Markdown, Textile, etc., blogging, running SQL queries, writing screen plays, doing your budget, and much much more
Some of the features include:
- Collapsable text blocks - fold away the code you don´t want to see
- Recordable macros - you don´t have to write a script to automate tedious work
- A CSS-inspired selector system which allows preferences and more to be applied to subsets of your document - you want return to do something different inside comments? or maybe you want spell checking enabled for your strings in C++, both can be done in seconds.
- Snippets with tab-able placeholders and live transformations on the text you enter
- Column operations - if you align your code nicely TextMate will reward you with eased editing!
- Superb shell integration - don´t worry if you are not familiar with bash, TextMate is here to teach you about all the wonders of the OS X UNIX underpinnings!
Textmate For Mac
The most popular versions of TextMate for Mac are 2.0 and 1.5. The size of the latest installation package available is 13 MB. The application lies within Productivity Tools, more precisely Office Tools. Best Text Editors for macOS. Note: In this article, we are focusing on the best text editors for coding but if you are looking for a text editor for your writing purposes, you can check out our article on the best writing apps for Mac. Sublime Text 3. Sublime Text is probably one of the most famous text editors available for Mac and for all the right reasons.
Textmate For Windows 10
There is a gallery of screencasts showcasing more features at macromates