Now, I'm finding it hard to determine which list is more dynamic, which one his the highest traffic / better signal-to-noise ratio, TextMate-users or emacs-devel....
But this really drew my attention:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/rails.el
The Emacs rails elisp package includes, quote, "TextMate-like snippets (snippets.el)"...
There's two conclusions I draw here:
1. Emacs, as the multi-headed, universally-powerful, endlessly- extensible, despairingly-complex beast of an editor that it is, is adapting, no doubt successfully, to the agile approach to Rails programming. And "that screencast" must have had an impact.
2. TextMate is evolving beyond its niche - when a top hacker's tool like Emacs emulates one of your features, this is a sign that you're doing something right. So congratulations to Allan and to everybody on this list! Emulation is the best possible display of respect.
Another topic which has been cropping up lately, and which you no doubt have thought about it (somewhere in the back of your brains, when not too busy hacking at this or that bundle) is the following: How can a resolutely closed-source application like TM attract such an open-source-like community environment? Does it have anything to do with software architecture (a closed framework with an open approach to extensibility through bundles), or with Allan's social skills?
I suppose one day we'll be talking about this here on the list, once TextMate moves ahead a couple of steps more and becomes *the* Mac editor.
Just my couple of hundred euros.
Best,
Kamen
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