Enjoy your brushes and your canvas from the 18th century! (By which I mean TextMate.)
September 25, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Enjoy your brushes and your canvas from the 18th century! (By which I mean TextMate.)
vscode highlighter vs textmate injection
August 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
vscode highlighter vs textmate injection
You have a code editor. It's not Zed/Neovim/VSCode/TextMate. Yet it supports syntax highlighting or LSP or plug-ins in some way.
What is it?
What is it?
January 17, 2026 at 2:02 PM
You have a code editor. It's not Zed/Neovim/VSCode/TextMate. Yet it supports syntax highlighting or LSP or plug-ins in some way.
What is it?
What is it?
Me coding in interpreted Ruby in TextMate without any LSP
April 28, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Me coding in interpreted Ruby in TextMate without any LSP
New Module `TextMate`
rendering text/code in the terminal with TextMate grammar.
uses PwshSpectreConsole and outputs Spectre objects that can be embedded inside spectre renderables.
github.com/trackd/TextM...
www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Tex...
#PowerShell
rendering text/code in the terminal with TextMate grammar.
uses PwshSpectreConsole and outputs Spectre objects that can be embedded inside spectre renderables.
github.com/trackd/TextM...
www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Tex...
#PowerShell
GitHub - trackd/TextMate: PowerShell c# module using TextMate + Spectre.Console
PowerShell c# module using TextMate + Spectre.Console - trackd/TextMate
github.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:55 PM
New Module `TextMate`
rendering text/code in the terminal with TextMate grammar.
uses PwshSpectreConsole and outputs Spectre objects that can be embedded inside spectre renderables.
github.com/trackd/TextM...
www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Tex...
#PowerShell
rendering text/code in the terminal with TextMate grammar.
uses PwshSpectreConsole and outputs Spectre objects that can be embedded inside spectre renderables.
github.com/trackd/TextM...
www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Tex...
#PowerShell
In retrospect, @svelte.dev + @bun.sh + @typescriptlang.org + ESM + @zed.dev + LSP is so much nicer to work with than TextMate + 1000-line JS files + rawdogging DOM 🫣
July 10, 2026 at 12:07 AM
In retrospect, @svelte.dev + @bun.sh + @typescriptlang.org + ESM + @zed.dev + LSP is so much nicer to work with than TextMate + 1000-line JS files + rawdogging DOM 🫣
I don’t get how people *aren’t* excited to build with AI.
I wanted syntax highlighting for Hone, learned just enough about TextMate grammars to review an agent’s work, and...tada!
Can't imagine handwriting a TextMate grammar, even for a trivial DSL like this.
I wanted syntax highlighting for Hone, learned just enough about TextMate grammars to review an agent’s work, and...tada!
Can't imagine handwriting a TextMate grammar, even for a trivial DSL like this.
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
I don’t get how people *aren’t* excited to build with AI.
I wanted syntax highlighting for Hone, learned just enough about TextMate grammars to review an agent’s work, and...tada!
Can't imagine handwriting a TextMate grammar, even for a trivial DSL like this.
I wanted syntax highlighting for Hone, learned just enough about TextMate grammars to review an agent’s work, and...tada!
Can't imagine handwriting a TextMate grammar, even for a trivial DSL like this.
The TextMate flower!! ❤️
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The TextMate flower!! ❤️
also have sublimetext/textmate grammars bc there's an obsidian plugin that takes those and does custom language code blocks, but not one for treesitter.
February 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
also have sublimetext/textmate grammars bc there's an obsidian plugin that takes those and does custom language code blocks, but not one for treesitter.
Big fan of @fasterthanli.me’s new library wrapping tree-sitter grammars up with a really nice Rust API. Spent a bit of the afternoon replacing a Syntect-based highlighting setup with an Arborium-based setup and much prefer it—and tree-sitter grammars are much more robust than old Textmate grammars!
December 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Big fan of @fasterthanli.me’s new library wrapping tree-sitter grammars up with a really nice Rust API. Spent a bit of the afternoon replacing a Syntect-based highlighting setup with an Arborium-based setup and much prefer it—and tree-sitter grammars are much more robust than old Textmate grammars!
we have had boiler-plate code generation
they are called code snippets and editors from Vim to TextMate have been able to do that for decades
they are called code snippets and editors from Vim to TextMate have been able to do that for decades
April 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
we have had boiler-plate code generation
they are called code snippets and editors from Vim to TextMate have been able to do that for decades
they are called code snippets and editors from Vim to TextMate have been able to do that for decades
I go for the raw lexicon files in ~/Projects/atproto window in my TextMate 🙃
June 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
I go for the raw lexicon files in ~/Projects/atproto window in my TextMate 🙃
What R Studio color theme are people using out there? I use Idle Fingers, but switch back to default (Textmate) when I'm teaching / projecting for students to observe. #rstats
January 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What R Studio color theme are people using out there? I use Idle Fingers, but switch back to default (Textmate) when I'm teaching / projecting for students to observe. #rstats
it might be time for vscode to stop using textmate grammars for syntax highlighting
September 8, 2024 at 3:24 AM
it might be time for vscode to stop using textmate grammars for syntax highlighting
tree-sitter grammars are so much easier to write than textmate languages, it's not even close
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
tree-sitter grammars are so much easier to write than textmate languages, it's not even close
Everybody stand back, I'm gonna attempt to write ObjC code in TextMate
April 12, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Everybody stand back, I'm gonna attempt to write ObjC code in TextMate
I feel like writing Ruby scripts in TextMate which download skeets from one server and put them on another server is just cosplaying "engineer" compared to what actual engineers do like building bridges and shit
October 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I feel like writing Ruby scripts in TextMate which download skeets from one server and put them on another server is just cosplaying "engineer" compared to what actual engineers do like building bridges and shit
Welp, to get my documentation to render CMake nicely I have to convert my highlightjs grammar into a textmate compatible grammar 😔
On the bright side when I'm done it means there could be an actually decent grammar for CMake in VSCode...
On the bright side when I'm done it means there could be an actually decent grammar for CMake in VSCode...
December 8, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Welp, to get my documentation to render CMake nicely I have to convert my highlightjs grammar into a textmate compatible grammar 😔
On the bright side when I'm done it means there could be an actually decent grammar for CMake in VSCode...
On the bright side when I'm done it means there could be an actually decent grammar for CMake in VSCode...
March 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
👀👀
Could this finally make me switch from TextMate?… we shall see
Could this finally make me switch from TextMate?… we shall see
Nova 14b1 is ready to test!
It will be a huge language server update, adding built-in support for integrating with third-party language servers, and the automatic installation and management of them. It's good, and we look forward to your notes!
Go to Settings > General and check "Beta Updates":
It will be a huge language server update, adding built-in support for integrating with third-party language servers, and the automatic installation and management of them. It's good, and we look forward to your notes!
Go to Settings > General and check "Beta Updates":
April 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
👀👀
Could this finally make me switch from TextMate?… we shall see
Could this finally make me switch from TextMate?… we shall see