I'm on the most current version. The author even mentions having problems in the blog so that it's still like this doesn't give me much hope that it'll ever get resolved.
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I'm on the most current version. The author even mentions having problems in the blog so that it's still like this doesn't give me much hope that it'll ever get resolved.
Well, I did read it, but I made an assumption that he was blogging about something that affected TextMate because what he described under Application Launch Delays sounded like the delays I was getting in TextMate.
In any case, I just reinstalled it at the urging of headlessmike and it now works. There must have been an issue with my chain of legacy application files. I started using TextMate around 15 years ago.
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Have you tried running it again lately? Maybe after downloading it again if you have an old copy on your machine.
Well damn. I'm glad we had this conversation. I had given up hope recently and completely uninstalled it.
I just reinstalled. I now have a fresh unlicensed copy and it ran! It didn't even have a hitch upon launch.
OK, I'm going to wait and see before I celebrate, but this is looking awesome!
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VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS
https://github.com/qvacua/vimr
"Project VimR is a Neovim GUI for macOS written in Swift.
The goal is to build an editor that uses Neovim inside with many of the convenience GUI features similar to those present in modern editors. We mainly use Swift, but also use C/Objective-C when where appropriate."
https://github.com/qvacua/vimr
"Project VimR is a Neovim GUI for macOS written in Swift.
The goal is to build an editor that uses Neovim inside with many of the convenience GUI features similar to those present in modern editors. We mainly use Swift, but also use C/Objective-C when where appropriate."
Managing your notes for one thing. A word processor does not give you a good interface to browse and search your notes. It’s just more document files to the word processor. Many will let you tag notes or put them into folders so you can group them by topics.
Also, word processors like Word and Pages are great for creating documents for printing. But they’re not designed for doing things like writing code, which is what I mainly use text editors for. Code is usually saved as unformatted text while word processors also save data about typefaces and page layouts.
These notes editors are much lighter on resources...
I thought for this , there is another category called"Notes apps" like Evernote, Joplin, Standard Notes, and many many others.
Isn't TextEdit suffice? I mean for writing software I am sure there are better features on those note apps but for text editing TextEdit should be sufficient...I think...
Yes, I was mixing up the question and answered in the context of notes apps which have ways to organize notes.
In the context of text editors, a word processor usually is full of features that are good for writing prose text and for styling that text and the document. They default to saving files in rich text formats not simple text files. Even when editing text files, they are prone to do things like add curly quotes in place of straight quotes thus messing up the code you were writing.
Text editors aren’t bogged down with styling and grammar checking and such. Text editors often have more robust search and replace and functions to manipulate text.
And syntax highlighting, autocompletion, indentation handling and code snippets and integration. (One example would be BBEdit that can show a live window of the website you're working on that will dynamically update as you code.)
I sometimes use text editors to clean up messy textual data so that it can be brought into a spreadsheet for various purposes.
I also use BBEdit as a scratchpad. I have some text files for each project I’m working on loaded into BBedit. I often need chunks of text for temporary purposes or that need a little cleanup. I can switch to BBedit, paste the text into a scratchpad text file and then use that for other tasks. A formal document is not needed for this, it is transient information.
I also use a text editor as a quick way to strip formatting from text.
Highlighting can be useful in other contexts, as can regular expressions, prefixing and suffixing lines, changing case, reversing or sorting lines and markdown.
Of course, if you literally only want to type text and save it in a file you can use whatever you want, as long as you don’t mind the hassle of manually saving to a text file instead of .rtf, .docx or whatever the app defaults to.
(But if that’s all you are doing I’d argue that something like Drafts, where you don’t even need to choose a file name or location, may be more useful.)
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I can do this with TextEdit , no?
I am asking because if there is an extra benefit in using BBEDIT maybe I should purchase one.
BBEdit is free to download and use forever, unless you need some pretty specialized features:
Just do it.
Yes, you can do some things in TexEdit though you need to make sure that it is saving the file as a text file and not an RTF (rich text format) file.
If you just need to do some really basic editing of text files, TextEdit will do it. If you are doing more you may want something with some more capabilities.
So it appears that I did celebrate too soon. Whatever allowed TextMate to run for me again didn't last long. It promptly went right back to freezing. I was just so peeved about it that I forgot to report back.
I've since moved on to BBEdit.
Ah thanks for the link! The specialized features are geared towards programmers although the price is totally reasonable if not a bit low. I am surprised this company still in business 30 years later with 90% of the features free. They almost have no other app to sell.
Maybe I am noob, but I opened a text file and it seems that you can write infinitely horizontally.
You can also turn word wrap off an on as you work on a file. There’s a menu item for that. I mapped a hot key to toggle it quickly since I do it a lot.