[TxMt] Background/foreground colors

[Raymond Brigleb]

Thanks everyone for the helpful feedback! And that certainly is 
something that makes TextMate special. Maybe I came off as a 
complainer... sorry, I was more saying that there's a million great 
tips and info out there, but lamenting that you have to look in five 
places to find them all!

I agree with the direction this topic is heading though, in that I feel 
efforts should maybe be more focused on the Wiki, and that needs to 
start with a structure more like a user manual / documentation. I don't 
know if I'm the person to do it because I'm a complete novice, but I'd 
surely like to help.

I think the changes could start small, maybe a sub-page on the Wiki 
where the structure begins, then information is filled in. If one 
person was on top of the structure, checked on it daily, then maybe the 
rest of the community could aim at putting their tips and tricks and 
whatnot in there as they arise. Wikis are ideal for that.

With respect to the actual user manual, I just mainly feel that it's 
missing a beginner's guide / tutorial / philosophy / feature overview 
kinda thing. With something as unique as TextMate, I feel like one 
needs to hit the ground with some idea of the philosophy behind the 
text editor. I'm only slowly grasping the unique tricks and workflow of 
the software. For example, today I just stumbled across the "column 
editing" feature by trial-and-error. I probably wouldn't have realized 
what it was if I hadn't just browsed the feature list.

But I digress. It's a great piece of software, a great community, and 
I'm grateful to have purchased a copy all my own. Do forgive; my 
comments stem only from a desire to help a great program get better. By 
the way, nice to meet you all!!!

Regards,
Raymond

On Mar 4, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Eric Hsu wrote:

> At 9:14 PM +0000 3/4/05, Mats Persson wrote:
>> Perhaps that group could also collaborate on creating a more 
>> extensive documentation on the Wiki ??? Sort of a mini TM 
>> Wikipedia.org thing.
>
> I think this is a very good idea, and probably the best use (in my 
> opinion) for the Wiki. Feature requests and bug reports seem to mostly 
> live on the mailing list and developer talk lives on the SVN mailing 
> list.
>
> However, this will take one energetic person to organize the effort, 
> and that person is not me!  However, once a part of the wiki were 
> organized, bundle writers could promise to write some documentation 
> for the WikiManual.
>
> best wishes, Eric
> -- 
> Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
> San Francisco State University
> erichsu at math.sfsu.edu
> http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu
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