On 04/09/2005, at 23.10, Steve Weintraub wrote:
I can appreciate that's his personal preference, but there's something to be said for being consistent with the OS (particularly when they claim to "bring Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors").
That refers to trying to expose the shell (possibilities) etc. in a GUI editor.
I've never even encountered this type of keystroke-level undo until TextMate, and I find it slows me down considerably. Please make chunks a preference!
It will appear in 1.3 (no exact ETA).
Re: slowdown, I read about something involving the caching, and I did flip a defaults write, so app switching does seem a bit better..but tab-to-tab is really sluggish, and I'm on a dual 2 G5. This is just a text editor, I can't imaging what's happing behind the scenes that causes this.
In b17 tab switching got a lot slower because the scope parser is done using an ANTLR generated parser, and it's used a lot (at least when switching tab, because it needs to match apply styling using the rules set in Fonts & Colors) -- most likely I'll introduce caching for this in b18.