[TxMt] Bloating?

[Allan Odgaard]

On Mar 24, 2005, at 16:05, Gregg Thomason wrote:

> [...] If it's replacing an existing app, it has to replicate workflow 
> /exactly/.

ehm... I'm pretty sure that all TextMate users did use a text editor 
previous to october 2004, and I doubt it replicate the workflow from 
any of these editors /exactly/! :)

> If that wasn't true, everyone would have switched to Macs by now if 
> only to get away from viruses and spyware.

I don't follow that line of reasoning. So if OS X replicated the 
workflow of XP exactly, everybody would switch to OS X? People switch 
to OS X because it's _different_, and people stay with XP because they 
are conservative, don't know what they're missing, want the games, the 
hardware is cheaper, all their friends have it, etc.

> Consider that TextMate didn't have a bloody preferences window when it 
> debuted, because it "wasn't need" and "against the philosophy" (sorry 
> forgot the exact verbiage). It has one now. See my point?

No, it wasn't the philosophy not to have a preferences window. David 
put in the blog that it was “a testament to it's simplicity”, although 
in reality it was just me thinking that 1.0 didn't need it, but I did 
indeed plan to add one (David like to use these dramatic idioms ;) ).