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Thank you so much for doing this. There's been a recurring theme with text editors on OS X and I'm glad you've avoided it.

A new editor comes out, it's a great editor, but it's closed-source and costs money. People are fine with paying money, so it thrives. Eventually, the developer(s) slow down or lose interest. Maybe they're working on a rewrite. Meanwhile, bug fixes don't happen. Promised features never show up. You end up with a community of developers using a piece of abandonware as their main editor. If they had the source code, they could improve their editor. But they don't so they can't.

I doubt he'll do it, but it'd be nice if Allan Odgaard took a hint from you and released the source for TextMate 1.5.




If he did it would probably kill off Textmate 2 unfortunately


He's killed it himself by taking so long on it. :/




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