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

David Lee david at davelee.com.au
Fri Mar 18 13:34:46 UTC 2005


Man, i wish someone had pointed out this validate thing earlier :) i 
gotta look through these menus again ..

I agree with all your points; i like komodo (use it at work on win') 
but it doesn't feel as good as TM, and is improving nowhere near as 
quickly

D


On 18/03/2005, at 9:14 AM, Torsten Becker wrote:

> 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
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