Textmate and Lion Woes

My recent upgrade to OSX Lion has Textmate unsettled. :-(

In fact, it’s downright unstable. Textmate crashes several times a day, unexpectedly, sometimes simply just because I clicked on it. I find I can’t open projects from the Open… or the Open Recent commands in the File menu.

I also find switching between Textmate windows (open projects) using the Window menu simply doesn’t work. When I switch apps using the Command+Tab combination I find the Textmate menu fails to switch. Textmate gets the focus, but the menu is left behind. Only if I use the Command+Tab+Option key combination can I get the Textmate menu to get focus long with it’s window.

Other problems include having more than one Textmate window open in Lion’s new fullscreen mode. Switching between windows is impossible unless you swipe between fullscreen windows. Using key combinations or the Window menu do not work.

Textmate doesn’t seem to be compatible with Lion’s new Versions capability either.

I’ve tried removing the two plugins I have installed, GITMate and MissingDrawer. I’ve even tried a clean install. Unfortunately, this doesn’t improve it’s reliability.

I hope MacroMates are working on a Lion update for Textmate that addresses these issues and issues other’s are having. I’m really not happy with UX at the moment, and it won’t take me long to find an alternative, since this is a tool I need to use daily.