[TxMt] Re: UI

[Oliver Taylor]

I must say, when I first started using TextMate I had no idea all the  
commands even exited. And even now, after I've developed a fully  
functional bundle of my own, I'm still discovering things about  
TextMate that are kind of hidden.

Clearly Allan wants the app to be completely transparent, that the  
code should be the most important focus of what you are doing and  
that the interface should completely disappear and become an  
extension of the code itself. And that's what I love about TextMate.

That being said, I think more needs to be done to expose the true  
power of TextMate to people who are unaware of that fact that  
commands in multiple bundles could apply to what they are doing. I  
often don't know of all the possible commands that I could be using  
at any given time. Aggregating those commands into a list so that  
people can see what is possible, given the current scope, would be a  
good thing I think. Be that in a drawer, palette, floating box,  
whatever. And I don't think that that would significantly impact the  
transparency of the app.