Developer(s) | Allan Odgaard (MacroMates), Ciarán Walsh |
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Initial release | 5 October 2004; 16 years ago |
Stable release | 2.0.6 / 28 December 2019; 9 months ago |
Repository | |
Operating system | macOS |
Type | Source code editor |
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Website | macromates.com |
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) identically, while another may decide that numerical constants (constant.numeric.*
) should be colored differently than escaped characters (constant.character.escape.*
). The hierarchal scope syntax allows language authors and theme authors various levels of coverage, so that each one can choose to opt for simplicity or comprehensiveness, as desired.TextMate developer MacroMates announced on Thursday that the code for TextMate 2.0, currently in alpha, is now available via the online GitHub repository. The code is being open sourced in order to counteract what some developers see as Apple's increasingly limiting user and developer freedom on the Mac platform.
Many open source proponents and would-be code contributors were vociferous in their opposition to Odgaard's choice of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, while asking upstream code patches to carry a public domain license. The problem, unfortunately, is the tug-of-war between FOSS principles and the desires of commercial ventures.