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by juniorer 5032 days ago
Is there a reason one must update to the latest editor or the latest version of the editor. I have been using Textmate for the past 5 years. It has served me really well. If it continues to work as it always does, upgrading is for better productivity?
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You mean, no regex incremental search, single character undo and no split views? Yeah, works beautifully.

There are too many alternatives that overtook TM quite a while ago. Look at Chocolat for kinda Textmate-done-right, or Sublime Text 2 for something that goes well beyond Textmate.

But then, if you are happy with it, more power to you. It's not like it is broken...

Nah, Textmate 1.x is exactly as good as it was 5 years ago. Actually it's a bit better, the community has been releasing more bundles for it. TextMate 2 seems to have some better underlying architecture, but nothing better for productivity. Oh, except it's the new thing ;)
The danger with using an application that is not current like Textmate 1 is that an OS update could majorly break it and you would be stuck between keeping the tool you know or upgrading and losing access to it.
If an OS update breaks a text editor, pretty sure that a sign of an OS failure.
I'm happy I switched to cars even though horses served my ancestors quite well ;-) Still, I'll agree with you that not all releases are better. Let's hope that Textmate 2 will live up to its potential.
Back when I used textmate a year or two ago, it would crash and hang frequently, especially when dealing with large files or folders.
TM 1 and 2 can be installed side by side. It's not like you have to switch immediately. So you can just try it out for yourself.