[TxMt] Bright, Patient Design

[Jay Soffian]

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2006/10/31/ 
bright_patient_design.html

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I'm not a power user, but I know what I expect out of a good editor  
and, well, BBEdit is a good editor, but whenever I fire it up I feel  
like I forgot to read some imaginary manual called, "BBEdit Rocks.  
Really." I suspect the fact that I didn't grow up with BBEdit is part  
of the issue. The fact that I'm a pure Mac OS X guy with zero pre-Mac  
OS X experience probably contributes to feeling like I'm missing part  
of the BBEdit joke. Yeah, Zap Gremlins. Ha ha. I get it. Clever, but  
great design?

My BBEdit ambivalence allows me to check out new editors as they  
stream across my consciousness and, to BBEdit's credit, it's lasted  
four years. I've test driven several editors during that time and  
BBEdit remained my technical tool of choice, but it was only a matter  
of time until someone else knocked my socks off.

The buzz around TextMate started many months ago, but it's when folks  
started to ask me to order it that I started to pay attention. There  
is no copy protection known to man that any bright engineer can't  
circumvent, so when an engineer asks you to purchase the software  
they're saying, "This is the shit. We should pay these guys for this  
fine piece of work."

You bet I downloaded it.

After two steady months of TextMate, I'm happy to declare it my  
editor of choice because it demonstrates a design philosophy I love.  
Bright, Patient Design. I'll explain

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j.