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Add to SafariWhen comparing TextMate vs Zed, the Slant community recommends TextMate for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript IDEs or editors?” TextMate is ranked 21st while Zed is ranked 42nd. 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 Customizable themes
Zed provides you with both light and dark themes out of the box. You can also develop your own with CSS.
Cons
Con OS X only
TextMate is for OSX only.
Con No auto-complete
There is no auto-complete support built in for JavaScript.
Con Auto-save could be more stable
Auto-save is a great feature, but there is no way to disable it.
