[TxMt] Split Panes: who/what/when/where/why

[Torsten Becker]

On Wed, 16 Mar 14:26 (+1100), David Lee wrote:
> Anyone here familiar with Komodo (activestate)? Sadly not available for mac
> but very good for scripting languages (if you like an ide) for windows &
> linux.

I used it on Windows around version 2.3 or so and also must say that I
miss some features, but I also must say that TM for me works better
because Komodo, IMO, lacked very important features, for example:
• writing own syntax definitions is/was not possible.
• it's a bit slow, don't know why it feels so, maybe because it sits
on top of mozilla.
• macro system was not documented.
• nothing like TMs commands exists, what I still think is my favorite
feature because this way I can extend TM with ruby.

> 1) for perl, php, tcl etc, interactive syntax checking : uses the local
> interpreter to check for syntax errors & displays them (underline text red ,
> errs in status bar) as you type. Downside: can be very slow

Yes, I also liked this, but for the most languages (ruby, python,
perl, etc) you can use the Syntax checking in TM, usually available
via ctrl-shit-v (v for validate).  This is included in the latest SVN.
(svn co https://anon:anon@macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/) its not
that fancy but it helps.

What I BTW mostly miss is its handling of 'Smart Typing Pairs' where
you have to move fore and backward in TM so get a blinking thing and
in Komodo you just place you cursor near it and see the opponent
highlighted red.  But its not that important and I mentioned this
already and so hope it will get implemented sometime in the future,
when Allan has time to work on this.


-- 
Torsten