Hi,
After much deliberation I decided to switch from Emacs to Textmate yesterday, despite being wary about some important keybindings not being supported.
I've managed to map almost everything the way I like it, but the most important is still not supported, and that is ctrl-space and ctrl-w for setMark and deleteToMark, respectively.
After searching the mailing list and blog archives I am left with the impression that this has been on the todo list for several years. I was just wondering if there is an ETA on this functionality? And out of curiosity, is it very difficult to add, or just very low on the (long) todo list?
I'm asking because I fear I will have to unlearn the very efficient Emacs way (to me, anyway) while I wait for this to be supported in TM. And that would be a shame :)
In most other aspects, TM is fantastic. And the better I understand it, the more impressed I get. Great editor!
On 27. Feb 2007, at 11:50, Stian Grytøyr wrote:
After searching the mailing list and blog archives I am left with the impression that this has been on the todo list for several years.
heh… TM is hardly “several years” old ;) but yeah, it was sort of on the to-do since 1.0. But it won’t appear before 2.0 (since work on 1.5 has practically stopped, mainly just back-ported stuff, bug fixes, or bundle advancements are happening -- there are of course quite a lot of the latter).
I was just wondering if there is an ETA on this functionality?
No ETA on 2.0, sorry.
And out of curiosity, is it very difficult to add, or just very low on the (long) todo list?
Can’t it be both? :p
On 2/27/07, Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:
heh… TM is hardly "several years" old ;) but yeah, it was sort of on the to-do since 1.0.
By "several years" I meant two or more :) Here's mention of setMark in a message from late 2004:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.textmate.general/934/match=setmark
But maybe this was before 1.0?
No ETA on 2.0, sorry.
Oh well, I'll live. Is there a beta (or alpha) program for those of us who would rather live with gruesome, data-munching bugs than lack of setMark support?
On 27. Feb 2007, at 16:06, Stian Grytøyr wrote:
On 2/27/07, Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:
heh… TM is hardly "several years" old ;) but yeah, it was sort of on the to-do since 1.0.
By "several years" I meant two or more :)
According to OS X’s dictionary: several is “more than two”. I guess you can argue that 2.3 years is “more than two”.
Here's mention of setMark in a message from late 2004:
This is from roughly a week after first public release.
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