On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Nick wrote:
It's kind of funny to me that my two favorite programs by far
(textmate and quicksilver) have a completely unknown development
schedule (although quicksilver's is now dead :[ ). oh well! Theyre
both kind of like os x - you can't complain very legitimately about
their faults because they're just so much better than the
alternatives.
Sure you can. Mac OS X users traditionally complain loudly about
faults and grievances they find with OS X. You'll rarely find a more
critical bunch than aggrieved Mac users. That a piece of software is
good does not make it impervious to criticism.
Someone else brought up MacVim, and it's an interesting point. For a
long time, I used Textmate exclusively. But now, I only use Textmate
around 50% of the time -- the other half taken up by MacVim, when I
need split panes, remote editing, or an editor that will not choke on
large text files.
+1 for MacVim; I use it exclusively now.
I must be one of the few that got TM1 specifically because TM2 was advertised as a free upgrade. I figured I would learn what the editor was all about and be familiar with the basics when the new version came out, I assumed, soon after Leopard.
Well, that time came and went and there are enough niggling things in TM, particularly with the python bundle (the language I edit the most), that I went searching elsewhere. For me the single most frustrating thing with the python bundle is that you need to add blank lines with spaces to line up the end of a class / def in order for code folding to work. That is not only annoying for me, but other team members as well. A close #2 is also with folding, which breaks if you start function parameters on a new line rather than on the same line, e.g.
test = some_func(
param1, param2)
Perfectly legal, but you need to do this in order to have any hope folding code:
test = some_func(\
param1, param2)
Legal, but annoying, especially working with a team where I don't have control of the entire source's coding style.
-berto.