I can regale you with numerous tales of otherwise intelligent people who refuse to do anything different, ever, because of some minor detail. (one man's useless bloat is another man's must-have feature)
Yikes!!!! Please, Allan, keep these people away from your excellent editor! I beg anyone who thinks any non-editor feature is a "must-have" in a text editor to please use another text editor. there are plenty out there with that philisophy. TextMate is GREAT because it does not cater to other editors workflows. It does not try to be other editors. It tries to get the job done in the best and smartest was possible. I'm looking for an editor that includes features because they belong, and includes extensibility so that I can create the functionality I need, not because it's trying to cater to every man, or become some "market leader" that doesn't turn anyone off. The minute that TextMate includes an editor because it's "another man's" must-have feature, or because every other editor has it, it becomes indistinguishable from...every other editor.
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