For a version 1.5 application, Textmate more than holds its own against any of the heavyweight text editors. Allan Odgaard blew the dust off his blog a couple of days ago to assure his audience that the highly-anticipated version 2 is, in fact, under active development.
Allan’s a talented guy. Textmate would be an impressive achievement from a team of developers, let alone one guy working in a tiny wooden shack on the side of a mountain. Which is how I like to imagine Allan working.
You can never have too many text editors. The codebunnies at Macrabbit – who created the glorious CSSEdit – have released a public beta of Espresso. They’ve recycled the live preview code from CSSEdit, meaning you can see your edits as you make them, even on a database driven site. Instant gratification! More competition for the Textmates of this world – especially as it’s completely extensible.
Espresso info and beta. Requires OS X 10.5 (which is, like, a bummer, ‘cause at work I’m only on 10.4).
