<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As a new user to TextMate (and having been in involved in number of development projects), I can't help but bring the baggage of being used to certain performance, behaviors and expectations from a Mac application, so please forgive if I come off a bit frustrated.</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I was pretty frustrated myself when I switched to OS X (over the general sluggishness), and I'm a tad irritated by the many hoops I have to go through, to get decent performance on low-end system (which seems to be most below a 2.5 GHz G5 with AGPx8 ;) ).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">But OTOH I've also changed my view on these things, make it work, then make it fast, I think that's what Apple does, and it's a philosophy I've adopted myself -- TM is far more dynamic than any other text editor, and makes much more use of “declarative” rules than code/plugins, and I think that adds tremendous value, despite the overhead these things bring.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">Fair enough, but first impressions count for a lot, so I think you want to be careful about *what* you make work first, at the cost of performance :)</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">In my first post in this thread I asked about command behaviors being tied to languages, not filenames. Could you let me know if my analysis here is accurate, or I'm missing something that would make this work?</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD">Steve</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>