On 22 juil. 05, at 06:01, Allan Odgaard wrote:
For my editing tasks I definitely favor the implicit/elusive behavior, but I'll check out UE the next time I get the chance, to see if it inspires me
You may also want to check how SubEthaEdit does it then, I personnally find that it makes much more sense and is much easier to use than in TM.
Have a look at this 7 lines example where I want to insert some text in colum 7 of lines 2 to 6:
Block editing in TextMate:
Block editing in SubEthaEdit:
Now tell me which one is the more obvious, honestly. The TextMate way where you can barely see the column selection (did you even spot it ? :)) ? Or the SubEthaEdit way where all block edited lines are clearly highlighted and you know where the column is by simply looking at the position of the cursor (which got removed in the screenshot) ?
This is one of those case where all I can say is "this looks so wrong that there is probably something obvious that I miss, or simply don't get". So feel free to enlighten me ;)
There are two reasons why I still prefer SubEthaEdit over TM for most of my text editing tasks and that's one of them. The other one being the symbol popup which I'm pretty sure *will* make it to TM eventually, so I won't mention it. Oh, wait, I just did :)
PS: and while I'm at it, I also love the way SubEthaEdit displays the line numbers in the gutter using a slightly smaller font. Details, details... ;)
