[TxMt] Another Editor War Sparked by TextMate

[thomas Aylott]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 11:52 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> This is all just my opinion though.  Other's obviously feel  
> differently.

I, too, was a BBEdit power user for a long stinkin time.
I was even starting to try and learn their bizarre language  
definition stuff to make my own language syntaxes when I switched  
over to TextMate.

The Rails screencast got me interested in TextMate again. But I  
totally switched because of Projects and Themes. Not having to use  
the finder is a major advantage. (Sure, BBEdit has some sort of  
feature for multiple files now, but it still doesn't make any sense  
to me)

I really miss the Balance Tags command and the way it handles non- 
word characters and cursor movement / selections. (stops between html  
tags, etc...)
But I'm in the middle of trying to write my own Balance Tags command,  
so that shouldn't be a problem for long.

I used to write all kinds of crazy scripts with applescript to make  
BBEdit do all kinds of crazy stuff. But with Ruby and TextMate, I can  
do a thousand times better with a billionth of the code.

thomas Aylott — design42 — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg