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Is people doing something else with tabs that I'm missing here?
If Textmate 2 isn't released soon it may be in trouble. This looks awesome.
Am I the only person who thinks that tabs don't scale in editors used for programming? I tend to have a lot of files opened at the same time (currently at 143 in Emacs) and I can quickly switch to any of these with a couple of keystrokes. Most of the Textmate users I've seen don't even care about the tabs in the editor, they just press Cmd-T and type the name of the file. Is people doing something else with tabs that…
Am I the only person who thinks that tabs don't scale in editors used for programming? I tend to have a lot of files opened at the same time (currently at 143 in Emacs) and I can quickly switch to any of these with a couple of keystrokes. Most of the Textmate users I've seen don't even care about the tabs in the editor, they just press Cmd-T and type the name of the file. Is people doing something else with tabs that…
Personally I use some (2-7?) buffers in vim and cycle through them. When I don't anticipate editing a file for a while I close that buffer.
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Yes, but what happens when development on this closed source editor dries up? It looks like a great app, but I'm still leery of basing something as important as my editor on a closed code base again. There are also some great alternatives out there, notably Redcar, which is both open and full of Textmate like features.
If you are capable of switching editors, what does it matter if it's closed source or not? This adversity to switching editors is a common trait in programmers I can't quite understand. We programmers learn new things all the time, it's part of what makes us excel in our profession. And yet, adopting a new editor is apparently extremely hard.
Am I the only person who thinks that tabs don't scale in editors used for programming? I tend to have a lot of files opened at the same time (currently at 143 in Emacs) and I can quickly switch to any of these with a couple of keystrokes. Most of the Textmate users I've seen don't even care about the tabs in the editor, they just press Cmd-T and type the name of the file. Is people doing something else with tabs that…
Why do you have 143 files open at the same time? Personally I use some (2-7?) buffers in vim and cycle through them. When I don't anticipate editing a file for a while I close that buffer.
This could be very good, I am still trying to find my perfect editor Vim's learning curve & interface means occasionally I just open up sublimeText2/TextMate. Great to see split views are there from the start.
I don't want to take anything away from Vico (because so far it is pretty rad), but if you stick with MacVim you eventually start using TextMate less and less until you just stop altogether. For me, it took a good 3 months or so. The last holdout was using TextMate for formatting JSON output, but I found a Chrome plugin for that.
This could be very good, I am still trying to find my perfect editor Vim's learning curve & interface means occasionally I just open up sublimeText2/TextMate. Great to see split views are there from the start.
I don't want to take anything away from Vico (because so far it is pretty rad), but if you stick with MacVim you eventually start using TextMate less and less until you just stop altogether. For me, it took a good 3 months or so. The last holdout was using TextMate for formatting JSON output, but I found a Chrome plugin for that.
Vim is just hard work getting going, e.g. in HTML I like to have the closing tag automatically done for me which im sure vim can do but i've just not had chance to look into. There are 100 other small things like this which I solve one at a time but often I just go 'cock it' and open it up in another editor. But then I want to split the window and open vim again....
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but what happens when development on this closed source editor dries up? It looks like a great app, but I'm still leery of basing something as important as my editor on a closed code base again. There are also some great alternatives out there, notably Redcar, which is both open and full of Textmate like features.
If you are capable of switching editors, what does it matter if it's closed source or not? This adversity to switching editors is a common trait in programmers I can't quite understand. We programmers learn new things all the time, it's part of what makes us excel in our profession. And yet, adopting a new editor is apparently extremely hard.