[TxMt] Re: Better Python bundle?

Fred B. fredb7 at starflam.com
Sun Jan 30 01:44:44 UTC 2005


On 28 janv. 05, at 00:05, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On Jan 27, 2005, at 23:46, Russell E. Owen wrote:
>
>> Of the many text editors I've tried (including Qued/M, BBEdit,
>> CodeWarrior IDE, Pepper, Alpha, Python IDE, IDLE, XCode, JEdit, NEedit
>> and SubEthaEdit), only TextMate has ever used a black background by
>> default.
>
> Think Different is the slogan of this platform! :)
>
>> [...] But not having "normal" behavior by default is likely to be a 
>> turnoff for potential buyers.
>
> Tell me about it -- some doesn't even download it because of the black 
> background in the screenshots. Anyway, 1.1 will have style sheets, if 
> 1.0 had reasonable defaults I wouldn't be able to make a huge deal 
> about this addition ;)
>

Just to balance things, the black background (and the nice ruby syntax 
colors) caught my eyes first and made me download TM.
I'm spending too much time in front of a screen and, white-hurts-eyes.
So I can't wait 1.1... to make all the backgrounds dark. ;)




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