I almost exclusively program in Fortran. I give a try to TextMate but unfortunately, it does not support Fortran files (which appears as “Plain Text”…) For a long time, I looked for a nice “programmer oriented” text editor which would recognize Fortran files… But find none. Too bad.

Oh, wow, that menu bar is great! I got the update but didn’t really notice the new bar. I’ve never been able to really remember the snippets, but having them right there is fantastic.

guerom00: As far as I know, TextMate lets you write your own syntax-highlighting. I suggest you add a Fortran one - maybe you can trade TextMate’s author for a free license ;)

guerom00:

There is a Fortran bundle for TextMate already, it’s just not one of the 30 or so that are distributed with the app. If you perform a checkout of the bundle repository, you can enable Fortran recognition by opening the Language Bundle editor (Cmd-Alt-Ctrl-L), clicking the “More Bundles…” button, and selecting the Fortran checkbox.

guerom00: BBEdit and TextWrangler (the latter being free, if that suits you) both have Fortran support built in.

If you just want to checkout the fortran bundle and not the others:

mkdir -p '/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles'
svn co --username anon --password anon http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/Fortran.tmbundle '/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Fortran.tmbundle'

Mooom!

I ruined the layout! :-(

First line: mkdir -p ‘/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles’

2nd line: svn co —username anon —password anon http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/Fortran.tmbundle ‘/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Fortran.tmbundle’

Sorry for the mess.

A slight annoyance with trialware: I first tried textmate when it was very new. It seemed too un-polished and sketchy for me to pay money to keep. Now that it has gotten more polished and better (according to you), my trial has expired and installing the newest version doesn’t renew it. So now I can’t find out what the new version is like, and if I can’t demo it, I’m not going to buy it.

@alex:

If you delete the old preferences file, I suspect you can try out a new demo. At least, that usually works on most trialware apps on the mac I’ve used since 1990 or so… :)

@general:

Does anyone but me find that Textmate tends to get enormously bogged down when you’ve cut and pasted very large text chunks more than five or six times? That’s the thing that stopped me from consolidating all my textfiles into BATF.txt when I tried it last march. :/ (It wasn’t named batf.txt at the time, of course. :))

Well, thanks everyone for all the answers :) I will have a look at all of this and see if something suits me.