TextMate
by TextMate · Open source text editor for macOS
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Overview
TextMate is a text editor for macOS. It supports multiple insertion points, file search with jump-to-match and replacement previews, version control status in both the file browser and the editor, snippets, macros and settings scoped to language or file. Customisation is done through bundles, and custom commands can be written in any language that works with stdin, stdout and environment variables.
- Best for
- macOS developers who want a customisable editor built around bundles, snippets and shell commands
- Pricing
- No prices are shown on the captured page; it offers TextMate 2.0 as a download and describes the editor as developed as open source.
- Runs on
- macOS
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Multiple carets for making several edits at once
- Shows changed files and lines, diffs, and partial commits
- Custom commands in any language using stdin, stdout and env vars
- Scoped settings cover files that mix languages or conventions
Trade-offs
- macOS only, and needs macOS 10.12 or later
- Customisation depends on learning bundles and scope selectors
- Captured page shows features only; no pricing or licence terms
Pricing
Published plans and prices from TextMate’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
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Where this comes from
The TextMate pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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