I can appreciate that's his personal preference, but there's something to be said for being consistent with the OS (particularly when they claim to "bring Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors"). I've never even encountered this type of keystroke-level undo until TextMate, and I find it slows me down considerably. Please make chunks a preference!

Re: slowdown, I read about something involving the caching, and I did flip a defaults write, so app switching does seem a bit better..but tab-to-tab is really sluggish, and I'm on a dual 2 G5. This is just a text editor, I can't imaging what's happing behind the scenes that causes this. 

On Sep 4, 2005, at 4:48 PM, Caio Chassot wrote:

1) The undo behavior. I read an earlier digest that standard OS "chunk" undos were planned, but I don't see this pref anywhere. Is there a plist command that will turn on chunk undos, and if not, will this feature be coming soon? Having to hit cmnd-z 34 times in a row is tiresome...


AFAICT, Allan is not very fond of the way chunk undos behave.  I'm not sure I'm all for it either, but a preference would sure be nice. Back in the first release I suggested to Allan that he used timed keypressed to determine the undo chunks, so that it's a bit smarter and doesn't undo too much.


3) Slowness. I've read a variety of posts on the subject, and it seems TextMate is buggy (or coded in a non-efficient manner) when dealing with multiple open files and across a network. The slowdowns I experiencing when switching tabs or switching to/from the application itself grow slower the longer I have a set of files open-- this problem really needs to be addressed.


Being around since 1.0, (reg #70), I can tell you it's got much faster in many aspects, and slower in things that were changed recently. Tab switching is really bugging me with b17. App switching is just fine though.

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