[TxMt] Support and Paying Customers and poo-poo'ing

Ryan Allen ryan at badfont.com
Thu Nov 3 01:43:45 UTC 2005


Yeah I bought BBEdit a few years ago and it cost almost 6 times what  
TextMate cost. It was something like $350 Australian dollars.

I sent a few questions and suggestions to their support team and I  
recieved a pathetic condecending email explaing very pretentiously  
why it was not possible to highlight interpolated variables inside  
strings because of 'XML Parsing Rules'.

I paid another $80 odd AU dollars for the 7 to 8 update. What was in  
8 that was not in 7? A document drawer. So I paid $80 dollars for a  
document draw... Really.

Textmate was about $60 AUD and I get daily builds, I can speak to the  
author directly and the application kicks arse!

So all you poo-poo'ers can get stuffed because it's well worth the  
cost. If Textmate was $350 AU I'd probably pay that much, too.

(And also for the record I own a license of Zend Studio, and I paid  
about $450 AU for that, and they suck, too. I won't be renewing that  
license, that's for sure!)

--RYan



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