The blog page at http://blog.macromates.com/2011/textmate-2-0-alpha/ points to r8930 version, but apparently there is an r8956 according to http://tm2tips.tumblr.com/.  Some questions:

1)  where to get the latest alpha?  Or should I assume the latest stable version is the r8930?

2)  if I install the TM2 alpha, can I keep TM 1.5.10 around if needed?  Can I undo the TM2 install?  I'm guessing that the 'mate' command changes can't be undone so easily.  (my main use of 'mate' command is during a git commit to open the change log file)

3)  In general, since I use TM for work, I'm hesitant to install TM2 alpha.  Any comments/advice about that?  I would however like to try it so I can offer my brilliant and helpful comments to Allan about it.

4)  Is there a proper way to search this list?   I found this: http://old.nabble.com/textmate-users-f18157.html  but the page at http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate doesn't mention how to search the list (though you can download each month's archives by hand).

--ErikN