On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Darren Brierton darren.brierton@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, long-time Emacs user / new TextMate user here. I wanted to drop by and say "hi", say how much I am loving TextMate so far (I thought nothing would drag me away from Emacs), and discuss a couple of features that I miss.
Firstly, I was on the whole a very happy user of Emacs, and an article I wrote describing my Emacs environment for XHTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP web development was even mentioned in the O'Reilly Emacs book. I'd tried TextMate a couple of years ago and not liked it, but I tried it again a few weeks ago and was blown away.
However there are two things that I miss. I have done a Google search on the mailing list archives and couldn't see much discussion of either of these, but please appreciate that the mailing list archive is very large and I'm new here so I apologies in advance if I'm just raking over things that have been discussed to death.
- Good parenthesis matching and highlighting
I'm actually genuinely surprised at this. TexMate is very weak in this area. I should be able to put the cursor between say "})" and have the two closing parentheses highlighted in different colours and have their corresponding opening parenthese highlighted in matching colours.
It does have this sort of. If you move over a closing paren or bracket, the corresponding opening punctuation is flashed for a second. So, the intelligence is there, but like Kevin said, TextMate doesn't currently display it quite how you would prefer.
Cheers, Chris