[TxMt] Re: Another Editor War Sparked by TextMate

[Allan Odgaard]

On 10. Nov 2006, at 16:51, Matt Neuburg wrote:

> Okay, but why *does* TextMate's Undo behave this way? It's a hassle  
> for me

For me the step-by-step undo is 100% predictable, and that makes me  
more efficient; I know that if I did an error 3 steps ago, I need to  
press ⌘Z 3 times, and make the correct steps after that.

Chunked undo screws up my workflow because I have to look and take  
notice at how much ⌘Z removed, and then “plan” the next  
appropriate step in my mind, meaning I can’t be mentally ahead of my  
editor, I need to re-calibrate, so to speak.

Of course it doesn’t help that I have basically always used editors  
with step-by-step undo, and I had a really hard time adapting to  
NSTextView’s chunked undo, because it seemed to skip the  
intermediate steps that I actually wanted to get to, when I used undo.

But I have acknowledged that the majority of users really want  
chunked undo, and it is the standard on the Mac -- when I don’t jump  
right on it, it’s because there’s really a lot of things I should  
also jump on then. But speaking to users at WWDC did make me consider  
strongly to move it forward from the 2.0 release, seeing how it was  
basically the only thing people mentioned, and it was mentioned a lot  
from users who was otherwise quite fanatic about the program.