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Add to SafariWhen comparing TextMate vs EmEditor, the Slant community recommends TextMate for most people. In the question“What are the best programming text editors?” TextMate is ranked 23rd while EmEditor is ranked 72nd. The most important reason people chose TextMate is:
Textmate is open source and hosted on [GitHub](https://github.com/textmate/textmate).
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Open source
Textmate is open source and hosted on GitHub.
Pro Extensible
TextMate has an extensive library of plugins which can be further extended to make it even more powerful.
Pro Lightweight footprint
It's lightweight footprint makes it extremely fast to load and use.
Pro Multi line select and editing
Pro Snippets
Pro OS X only (native)
Pro Excellent file compare functionality
Comparing files is intuitive and works well.
Pro Very good at handling (large) CSV files
Quickly opens even very large CSVs and converts data to columns according to delimiter. Fast Search/Replace operations.
Pro Opens very large files very fast
Cons
Con OS X only
TextMate is for OSX only.
Con Windows-only
Con Default themes and syntax coloring not the prettiest
Some syntax highlighting colors and/or themes don't look very good - but can be customised.
