Anybody tried ST2 and moved back to TextMate?

AngryParsley · on July 15, 2012

I gave it a shot one weekend, but went back to my highly-customized TextMate. ST2 is still rough around the edges. It doesn't show source control status in the sidebar. TextMate has the ProjectPlugin plugin which solves a lot of those problems: http://ciaranwal.sh/projectplus. ST2's find-in-project was also kind of annoying, at least compared to AckMate (https://github.com/protocool/AckMate).

I realized I don't want to make the same mistake that I made when I switched to TextMate: Using a closed-source editor. One day, Sublime Text 2 will stop being developed. It's not clear if they'll ever change the license to something that allows community development. ST2 will probably end up like TextMate: consigned to the graveyard of abandoned closed-source text editors.

That's one advantage of Vim and Emacs: They're never going away.

netghost · on July 15, 2012

I'm sort of on the fence. I'm still using TextMate at work, but trying ST2 for some personal projects. It's pretty good, but there are a few things I miss, for instance TextMate packages make great use outputting HTML to a webview for things like Markdown previews, SVN/Git blame, etc. Maybe I'm missing something, but there doesn't seem to be anything quite the same in ST2.

schappim · on July 15, 2012

That would be me. The one feature it misses is multiple line editing by holding down option and dragging.

Though the op's tips make me want to has another look.

Cheers

Marcus

steverandy · on July 15, 2012

You can do that with ST2.

calinet6 · on July 15, 2012

To be fair, you can't drag a box selection like you can in TM.

However, Sublime's multiple-cursor support is far superior otherwise.

nicholassmith · on July 15, 2012

I know someone who did, said it never felt as smooth for Rails dev, but he'd spent years in it grinding code out so it's hard to retrain that muscle memory. I didn't like TM much to start with some ST2 was an easier switch.