TextMate
TextMate is a macOS text editor for writing and editing code, markup, and plain text with tools tailored to programming workflows.
What is TextMate?
TextMate is a native macOS text editor designed for programmers and other users who work heavily with code, markup, and structured text. It helps you write, navigate, search, and refactor text efficiently with an interface that fits desktop development workflows. TextMate includes language-aware editing, snippets, macros, project and file searching, and support for many programming and markup languages through bundles. It also integrates with common version-control workflows, making it useful for editing source files inside software projects. Developers often use it for quick coding sessions, script editing, web development, configuration files, and general-purpose text work on the Mac. MacroMates Ltd. publishes TextMate as a developer-focused editor for macOS.
Key features
- Edit source code, markup, and plain text in a native macOS editor
- Use syntax highlighting for many programming and markup languages
- Search across files and jump quickly between matches
- Insert reusable snippets with placeholders and transformations
- Record and replay macros to automate repetitive editing steps
- Customize workflows with bundles, commands, and scoped settings
- Work with version-controlled project files and view file changes
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
TextMate is legitimate developer software for macOS. It mainly works with the files and folders you choose to open, so its data access is typically limited to your documents and project directories. Custom commands and bundles are a normal part of its workflow, but users should be careful when adding third-party extensions or running shell-based actions they do not trust, since those can affect project files just like other development tools.
Recommendation: Keep TextMate if you use it for coding, scripting, or text editing on your Mac. If you no longer use it, removing the app is usually straightforward, but you may want to keep any custom bundles, snippets, or editor settings you still rely on before uninstalling.
Common paths
/Applications/TextMate.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.macromates.TextMate
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/TextMate
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.macromates.TextMate.plist
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