On 24-nov.-04, at 04:41, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:20, Stuart Wheeler wrote:
What is the target audience of TextMate?
Interesting question :) As of such, I had myself in mind when I wrote TextMate -- I expect that people who want things to be simple, even when it requires work to make them simple, sums up the type of person I think of as the ideal TextMate user.
So there's no particular task I have in mind for TM and the skill set I expect from the user is curiosity and the ability to combine existing tools to solve new problems (and long term, shell programming
- regular expressions, but this can be learned hand in hand with TM).
I don't know how well this fit other editors. Personally I think most editors try to solve a specific task instead of offering “tools” to be combined. Emacs and vim being the exceptions, but these do IMHO fail to make the simple stuff simple, they have a very steep learning curve, and they just don't fit in on OS X -- so probably the target audience for TM is people who really wanted to use Emacs/vim if it wasn't for the disadvantages just mentioned.
Oh, and my envisioned target audience had no printer! ;)
Hey, that's me without a printer! ;)
(Never needed the printer with TextMate, though. Sorry, the drunken guy ;)
BTW, this is my first post to the list. Hi everybody. I registered TM a month ago. Though TM missed a few features or a bit of maturity to completely replace BBEdit, I liked the the way it was taking, so I wanted to support the project. After a month of use, TM is my primary editor, I sometimes have to switch to BBEdit, mainly to view/replace some invisible chars and for finding/replacing stuff in huge projects, but when I do, I miss TM. ;) I use TM mainly for Ruby, Obj-C & C, shell scripting, a bit of html and css.
So, thanks for TM, Allan, and continue the good work.
-- Fred B.