Hi,
Congratulations for your TextMate software, I just switched to MacOS and I have to say that it seems to be very good. JEdit seems to be still ahead regarding features, but unfortunately it is almost unusable for me under MacOS because it is too slow. So I'm very interrested in TextMate, but it lacks several features I need.
Since it is payware, and because you may be interested in potential users' requests, here is what prevents me from purchasing TextMate for now :
- I use to write large documents in XML, and I use the soft wrapping feature. But unfortunately the indentation is not properly handled in this mode, since only the first "physical" line gets indented. You probably now JEdit does that very well, I may send a screenshot if you wish.
- I need some way to close XML tags automatically with the easyiest possible keystroke. For some reason, the shortcut for this feature does not work on my system (Tiger on iBook G4 and latest version of TextMate). Also, I think that the JEdit way to do this is very good : you just have to type "</" and the rest of the closing tag comes up automatically. For me this is far more natural than typing an arbitrary keystroke.
For me the lack of these two features above is a real show stopper. Also, I have some less important feature requests :
- It seems that it is not possible to use tabs without creating a project. It would be nice to have an option to say where newly open files should be opened (in a tab or a new window).
- I noticed that using the tabulation key when a block is selected does not increment the block but simply deletes it. I assume that there is another shortcut for this, but I think it would be much more convenient to be able to use the tab key as for a single line, as almost all good editors do.
- And of course, having the possibility to have a simple file browser without creating a project would be great. By the way, it also seems weird to me that the project explorer expands at the right of the main window and not at the left, which is quite unusual under MacOS and does not do well with window maximizing functions.
Thanks for your attention,
Best regards, -- Frédérik Bilhaut GREYC - Université de Caen Campus II - Sciences 3 - Bureau 385 http://www.info.unicaen.fr/~fbilhaut