[juniorer]

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?

[Derbasti]

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...

[netghost]

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 ;)

[dantiberian]

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.

[bdcravens]

If an OS update breaks a text editor, pretty sure that a sign of an OS failure.

[d0m]

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.

[mcav]

Back when I used textmate a year or two ago, it would crash and hang frequently, especially when dealing with large files or folders.

[Argorak]

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.