How to Uninstall TextMate on Mac

Save edited documents outside the app and copy any custom TextMate bundles before uninstalling. A project file is separate from the editor, while modified bundles can live in its support folder. The recorded test used a direct download, not a Homebrew installation.

Remove the app and inspect its data

Quit TextMate and move TextMate.app from Applications to Trash. If you installed the mate shell command separately, inspect its actual target before removing a link. Current TextMate source documents ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/PasteboardHistory.db, and custom bundles may also live in the support folder. Inspect wanted changes there before removing it. TextMate manual · Source history.

Check the result

ls -ld ~/Library/'Application Support'/TextMate ~/Library/Preferences/com.macromates.TextMate.plist

Run this read-only check after quitting the app. A printed path still exists; “No such file or directory” means that path is absent, while a permission error needs its own investigation.

If you installed it with Homebrew

The Homebrew cask has a zap list that includes Application Support/TextMate, caches, preferences and a recent-documents list. Ordinary cask uninstall also removes its managed mate binary. Run the command below without --zap if you want to keep those files and inspect them separately. A manual --zap follows the whole cask list regardless of Mole’s checkboxes. Mole uses zap only when its targets are selected, owned and within the checked boundary; otherwise it removes selected remnants through its own flow.

brew uninstall --cask textmate

What Mole lists

The display-name support folder is listed for review, unselected by default; exact bundle-ID cache and preferences are normally selected. Project folders outside Library are not an uninstall target.

What this test covered

TextMate 2.0.23 from the official archive was removed on September 20, 2026. No project was written, and a 23 MB support folder remained because the review selection was not activated in that part of the batch.