Just thought I'd chime in with my experiences of using TM over the last couple of days.

Firstly, may I heap lavish praise on the developer(s). The live-updating project drawer (despite its shortcomings, below) is fantastic, and the Esc autocomplete is nothing short of magic. How does it *always* seem to guess the right completion for a given start string out of many possibilities? Regardless, this has made coding a lot less laborious. The snippet and macro features are also great time savers.

But enough of the praise, here's my comments and suggestions :-)

* I rarely want to view the ASCII version of an image file. How about a preview of the image in the editor pane instead? * Whilst speed is generally not an issue, there is an annoying 2-4 second delay (i.e. spinning beach-ball) when switching to TM when I've got an (open) project located on an SMB share. * By default, TM requires a lot of keyboard mashing for relatively common commands. For instance, I see no reason why the Command + Option + Control + D for toggling the project drawer can't simply be Command + D (in fact, I've hacked this myself in IB and it works fine) * How about a split view (i.e. the ability to see different sections of the same document at once)? * TM doesn't seem to remember the window scroll position if you do the following: open a document (that scrolls), and scroll down without changing the insertion point. Switch to another document/tab. Switch back. The window scroll position is back to its original position, and is no longer at the section of text I was looking at. * When searching within a document for a string located "below the fold", the matching string barely creeps "above the fold", i.e. is bottom aligned relative to the window. This makes it harder to see the match in context. I prefer the behaviour (which I believe BBEdit exhibits) whereby the matching string is centred vertically in the window, making it easier to spot and put in context. * How about being able to create a "real" folder (as opposed to a group) in the project draw? * I would like the group name to be selected and editable immediately after its creation, à la "New Folder" in the Finder * The Shift Left/Shift Right commands exhibit weird behaviour. I expect them to work like Command + [ and Command + ] in BBEdit or SubEthaEdit, but they don't. (Sorry for the vagueness. It's easier for you to see it yourself than for me to describe how.)

Overall, I like the direction TextMate is going in.

Regards,

Rich Barton