[TextMate] Preferences window (was ProFont)

Carl-Johan Kihlbom extra at newcode.se
Wed Oct 6 22:10:17 UTC 2004


On Oct 7, 2004, at 00:04, Sune Foldager wrote:

> On 6/10-2004, at 23:55, Carl-Johan Kihlbom wrote:
>>
>> I don't understand your argument about the Preferences. TextMate 
>> still has a lot of preferences, such as font, antialiasing, tab 
>> width, etc., but instead of keeping them all together in one place 
>> where they're easy to find they are spread out and hidden among the 
>> other menus. How is that easy and straight forward?
>
> I don't agree that they are spread out and hidden... well, they are 
> spread out but they arein the menus where they logically belong. For 
> example, font setting is in the view menu, stuff that determines how 
> the editor reacts to your input is in the behaviour menu, and stuff 
> relating to syntax is also in the view menu etc. Putting it all in a 
> prefs window is not much better: It takes longer time to change, and 
> many people will check the menus first to see if it is not considered 
> "deep" enough to end up in the prefs, I think.

I don't agree, but I see where you're coming from. I think I'll just 
have to start a Preferences for TextMate petition :-D Who's with me?!

/ Carl-Johan




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