On 24 Nov 2004, at 03:41, Allan Odgaard 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.
That's quite a relief to hear. I was beginning to worry that I wasn't in the target audience. ;-)
As someone who has used Vim with varying degrees of success, but wasn't sure whether to get into it deeper (I even bought the book); and tried and soon gave up on Emacs (I had a book for that, too!), it looks like I'm sat in the middle of it. :-)
Stuart