- 1984 - vi
- 1993 - TextPad
- 1998 - BBEdit
- 2008 - TextMate
Among other great features:
- Great UI out of the gate. I like the 10,000 ft view.
- Multi-select. This is so cool:
- Splat-click on as many things as you want and they're all selected and change together as you type.
- Select a block of lines (splat-shift-l) and they're edited together.
- With the cursor on a word, hitting splat-d selects additional occurrences of that word. Or, just hit ctrl-splat-g to select all occurrences of that word.
- Predictive text (both inline using <tab> or in a command palette accessed by hitting shift-splat-p
- Lightning-fast file switching/opening. Hit splat-p and start typing the name of a file. As you type, the list narrows, but all those files are actually *open*. It's hard to describe how well this works.
- vi(m) command mode! Hit escape when editing and all those vi commands you have memorized will work.
- Smart indenting with alignment marks. The thing that pissed me off most about TextMate was the braindead way it did indenting--if a line was half-selected it wouldn't follow any other lines you were indenting/outdenting. Sublime Text fixes this, and with the addition of the "Alignment" plugin makes it easy to align things like equal signs on multiple lines.
I really like this editor.
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