I never thought I would license a text editor for 39 Euros. After reading quite fantastic reviews of TextMate I decided to give this supposedly divine editor a try. Turned out to be a terrible mistake as I know now.
The first impression was like “OK, it’s a good editor, but 39 Euros while TextWrangler is still free, no way!”.
10 days later I already was knee-deep in TextMate projects, accustomed to its keyboard short-cuts, had the blog-editor configured, let alone all the the bundle-features (discovered the secrets behind FIXME, CHANGED and TODO!!) and was overall very impressed by TextMate’s slick and fast usability. To make a long story short, I couldn’t imagine switching back to another text editor again.
However, TextMate was very helpful today when I changed my blog-theme from my badly hacked and messed up Unsleepable to a clean K2 setup, doing search&replace orgies in my database dumps and WordPress files. K2 is surely one of the best available WordPress themes. It offers an excellent reading experience and nifty features like archive pages sliders or sidebar modules.
Main reason for my clean-up was the migration from UTW to the Simple Tagging Plugin, which I couldn’t get to work very well on my former theme. On K2 it basically works, but for full support (e.g. archive pages) some of the K2 files have to be edited too, not a big problem though. I put the changed files in a zip-file, so if you didn’t modify your K2 installation, just download it and overwrite your existing K2 files.
Simple Tagging Plugin performs better than UTW, comes with built-in features like type-ahead tagging, tag suggestions, related posts and is, unlike UTW, still under ongoing development.
Update
Changed files for K2 v0.9.6 are available here.
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