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Re: TextMate 2

#71

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Be sure to drop by in ##textmate on freenode, the discussion on how to implement and use split windows is not really making progress so far.

That is simply depressing. I went to Vim for this alone, and, well now I'm addicted to Vim.

Emacs, baby, every single day of the week!

Re: TextMate 2

#72
post #11

> Sadly I had to pull the alpha since it’s now all over twitter w/o proper introductionary text, hotfixes, etc. ( http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/2011-December/01465... ) Maybe something to do with the IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS REQUEST TO NOT RE-PUBLISH THE ALPHA INFORMATION that people can't seem to comprehend.

I am starting to understand why Apple has provisioning of devices -- and now Macs -- for pre-release software.

Re: TextMate 2

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post #68

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I imagine all three are superior to TM2, especially Vim and Emacs, after you bust through the learning curve no point ever going back.

Programming on a laptop dramatically changes the cost/benefit of keyboard-heavy interfaces, IMHO. E.g. it's almost as quick for me to flick the cursor to switch tabs as it is to type a chorded keyboard shortcut to switch buffers, especially factoring in the ability to look and think about what buffer I want before initiating any movement.

On the other hand, the buffer system scales up to much larger amounts of buffers really easily, which I find very useful.

Also, on KDE at least, Emacs has both a very nice GUI and fullscreen support.

Finally, I am now using a 13" laptop, and using the keyboard is still more efficient despite the really nice touchpad my new computer has.

Re: TextMate 2

#74
post #10

Hm.. I wonder how many people will switch back to TextMate 2 from Vim/Emacs/Sublime Text?

This emacs user won't. I've gotten too used to org-mode, SLIME, M-x shell, and a host of other things I'm pretty sure textmate doesn't do.

You should add Tramp to your list--I don't think textmate has anything like it and it's extremely useful. You can open a remote file or shell as easily as opening the same locally; my coworkers don't even notice that I'm editing files remotely!

Re: TextMate 2

#75
post #48

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Common courtesy? I know it's rather uncommon these days...

Common courtesy is typically lost after 6 years of neglect.

How is the author taking his time to release a new version neglect?

People that were not happy with the wait migrated to other editors.

He owns us nothing.

Re: TextMate 2

#76
post #72
post #11

> Sadly I had to pull the alpha since it’s now all over twitter w/o proper introductionary text, hotfixes, etc. ( http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/2011-December/01465... ) Maybe something to do with the IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS REQUEST TO NOT RE-PUBLISH THE ALPHA INFORMATION that people can't seem to comprehend.

I am starting to understand why Apple has provisioning of devices -- and now Macs -- for pre-release software.

At least as of the Lion developer previews, Macs are not in any way provisioned.

Re: TextMate 2

#77
post #75

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Common courtesy is typically lost after 6 years of neglect.

How is the author taking his time to release a new version neglect? People that were not happy with the wait migrated to other editors. He owns us nothing.

Yup, we owe him nothing as well.

Re: TextMate 2

#78
post #48

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Common courtesy? I know it's rather uncommon these days...

Common courtesy is typically lost after 6 years of neglect.

I know, right! My TextMate completely stopped working when it was just 3 years old. Don't make 'em like they used to.

Re: TextMate 2

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post #11

> Sadly I had to pull the alpha since it’s now all over twitter w/o proper introductionary text, hotfixes, etc. ( http://lists.macromates.com/textmate-dev/2011-December/01465... ) Maybe something to do with the IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS REQUEST TO NOT RE-PUBLISH THE ALPHA INFORMATION that people can't seem to comprehend.

For what's it worth, this was posted on a publicly accessible TextMate mailing list. Not sure why he would think it wouldn't leak out.

It's not that it's not supposed to leak like some big secret. It's that it makes you look bad when you get it into the general public's hands rather than a bunch of developers that know that it's of alpha quality and it goes around crashing all of the time, corrupting your data, etc. Things you'd expect alphas to do.
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