It'd be best, if they could work it out, to have a single company producing TextMate for all platforms.

Combine code wherever possible, have a single source for bundles, and have a unified marketing effort.

Problem is, the people coding these things aren't usually the strongest businessmen.  Not a dig, just a fact based on my 30 years in the business.

A unified marketing approach could make this combined company fly to heights reached, in the not too distant past, by Underware (Brief), CodeWright, et al. before each got bought and squandered by much larger companies (Borland, mostly).

S

On Nov 21, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Eric Knapp wrote:

There is a good discussion on the post I linked to about this. Lots of people are saying that this is a really good thing for the TextMate community. However, I'm not so sure. I realize that there is nothing anyone can do about it but if this editor take off on Win and Linux there is really nothing to stop him from porting to OS X too. I guess I've seen good intentions blow up in faces too many times to be excited about this. I can only hope that everything works out well for everyone, but I'm skeptical.

-Eric

On 11/20/06, Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1@macromates.com> wrote:
On 20. Nov 2006, at 22:41, Eric Knapp wrote:

> I was wondering about this:
>
>  http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2006/textmate_on_windows
>
> Is the account given on the site fully correct? Does anyone see any
> issues?
> Just thought I would ask before I jumped to any conclusions.

Yes -- I met with him for lunch a few weeks ago (we had sushi) and he
showed me his editor.

It was weird to initially see the inType clone of my bundle editor,
but seeing a scope tool tip on this windows editor was even more
weird ;)


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