[TxMt] snippets.el: a bow of deference?

[Kamen Nedev]

Now, I'm finding it hard to determine which list is more dynamic,  
which one his the highest traffic / better signal-to-noise ratio,  
TextMate-users or emacs-devel....


But this really drew my attention:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/rails.el

The Emacs rails elisp package includes, quote, "TextMate-like  
snippets (snippets.el)"...

There's two conclusions I draw here:

1. Emacs, as the multi-headed, universally-powerful, endlessly- 
extensible, despairingly-complex beast of an editor that it is, is  
adapting, no doubt successfully, to the agile approach to Rails  
programming. And "that screencast" must have had an impact.

2. TextMate is evolving beyond its niche - when a top hacker's tool  
like Emacs emulates one of your features, this is a sign that you're  
doing something right. So congratulations to Allan and to everybody  
on this list! Emulation is the best possible display of respect.


Another topic which has been cropping up lately, and which you no  
doubt have thought about it (somewhere in the back of your brains,  
when not too busy hacking at this or that bundle) is the following:  
How can a resolutely closed-source application like TM attract such  
an open-source-like community environment? Does it have anything to  
do with software architecture (a closed framework with an open  
approach to extensibility through bundles), or with Allan's social  
skills?


I suppose one day we'll be talking about this here on the list, once  
TextMate moves ahead a couple of steps more and becomes *the* Mac  
editor.


Just my couple of hundred euros.


Best,

Kamen



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