I remember when getting started with TM, what strike me was that most of the functionality was buried into the Macros, Snippets and Commands menus. Those three menus seemed extremely dense, and the rest of the menus, and the app in general, seemed very "easy", or light. Up to this day, I still haven't fully explored the potential of those menus, because I get the feeling that they change all the time. Adding the "gear" pop up menu at the bottom of the window was great. Are there other ways to "de-densify" all that functionality, and "smooth en" the learning curve ? …just thinking out loud. Cheers. <div>2006/2/8, Nicholas Cole <<a href="mailto:nicholas.cole@gmail.com">nicholas.cole@gmail.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dear List, One of the most striking things to a new user is that the most important part of the UI for textmate is a button a that is at the _base_ of the window (v. unexpected) and that is the smallest part of the UI. I'm quite sure I would not have realised its significance had I not seen the Screencasts, and I know that people I've recently introduced to Textmate have had the same problem. Is there any way it could be made more obvious? Best, N. ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div>