[ANN] TextMate 1.0 (with Ruby and Rails syntax highlighting)

[David Heinemeier Hansson]

Everyone who attended RubyConf '04 already got a sneak peak at this,
but now it's finally here for the mere mortals as well. We've released
TextMate 1.0. It's a code and markup editor for OS X that ships with
syntax highlighting and other goodies for Ruby (and Rails).

Many thanks to all the folks at RubyConf that offered suggestions.
Especially thanks to Rich Killmer who hacked a bit on the syntax
highlighting file and got interpolated strings and regexps to look even
nicer. He was also the first to buy a license and hereby test the
infrastructure. Thanks a bunch, mate!

TextMate: http://macromates.com/
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[James Edward Gray II]

Everyone who attended RubyConf '04 already got a sneak peak at this,
but now it's finally here for the mere mortals as well. We've released
TextMate 1.0. It's a code and markup editor for OS X that ships with
syntax highlighting and other goodies for Ruby (and Rails).

I'll confess that I'm a die hard BBEdit user and it would take a LOT to
make me switch, but...

I did download your application and poked around a little. I was quite
surprised. You have some very attractive features in there and a lot
of them especially for a 1.0 release. Folding and the auto-complete
were both very attractive to me. My compliments. I'll keep an eye on
this editor...

James Edward Gray II

 

[Joe Cheng]

Especially thanks to Rich Killmer who hacked a bit on the syntax
highlighting file and got interpolated strings and regexps to look even
nicer.

So that's what that regex thread was all about!

Congrats on what looks like a pretty slick product. I'd bite if I had a
Mac.

 

[Luc Heinrich]

I'll confess that I'm a die hard BBEdit user and it would take a LOT to
make me switch, but...

I had high expectations for TextMate (partly due to David's over-hyping
machine ) and as expected, I am *seriously* disapointed by this 1.0.
Yeah, it's a 1.0, but it absolutely does *not* live up the hype. It has
some great potential however, and would it be opensource that I'd
already be hacking it all over the place. But it's not, so all I can do
is send my rants to Allan and David and pay the registration fee to
support their work.