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		daniel_sim on Dec 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha That's kind of what I was referring to, likewise with Eclipse. Textmate has always been the polar opposite of whatever that feeling is.

dextorious on Dec 13, 2011 [–]

Actually when I first tried TextMate, in the low 1.x versions, it felt like watching the grass grow between each character press and the glyph appearing on screen.

Probably a multi-ms delay due to regexes for syntax highlighting.

And TextMate is not designed like a standard OS X app, either.

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