[TxMt] Re: How About a Competition?

[Allan Odgaard]

On Nov 24, 2004, at 2:20, Stuart Wheeler 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.

Oh, and my envisioned target audience had no printer! ;)