<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Alan Schussman wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The problem is, it's an awful review. Not awful in the sense that it's</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">unfavorable to TextMate or the book (the author seems like both), but</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">just plain bad:</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I'll second that! First, the review jumps back and forth from reviewing James' book to reviewing TextMate. Second, he approaches TextMate from a very limited point of view - to paraphrase a couple of parts:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"I'm learning how to do Ruby on Rails, so TextMate is a Ruby on Rails IDE." That's news to me. I thought it was a text editor that supported a (virtually) unlimited list of languages.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"It's basically an Emacs clone." I have stated (somewhere) in the past that TextMate is Emacs for OS X. By that, I mean that it is the ultimate in configurable editors - if TextMate doesn't do what you want it to do, you can create a bundle that does what you want. However, it is not an Emacs clone, as far as I can tell - and the look and feel is definitely not "Emacs-like." From my limited exposure, Emacs has a much steeper learning curve and has a lot of functionality that (I hope) TextMate will never have.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Lastly, I couldn't tell if the guy liked the book or not. It seemed as if his strongest praise was for its size.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Bottom line - I love TextMate, and James' book is allowing me to do even more with it!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mike</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>