[TxMt] Another Editor War Sparked by TextMate

[Charley Tiggs]

Allan Odgaard wrote:
>>>> and processing lines containing certain patterns.
>>> Regular expressions are your friend.  ;)
>> Yes, they are but, in this case, BBEdit is better.  I can send the 
>> matches to a new document and delete 'em from the original document at 
>> the same time.  This is useful for when I'm needing to quickly weed 
>> out multiple sets of data and put each set into separate files for 
>> easier processing by other apps/scripts.
> 
> You can also use the Filter Lines Through… set Input to Document, output 
> to New Document, and then let the command be either: egrep «regexp» or 
> egrep -v «regexp». The first one creates a new document with all matches 
> from the old one, the latter takes all the lines which did not match the 
> regexp.

Awesome!

> We could make two standard commands for this, which prompted the user 
> for the pattern…

This would be great.  Especially for people like me coming from another 
powerful text editor.  Like I said, I revert back to BBEdit only when I 
can't locate a feature I need and I know that BBEdit has one command and 
a two step process to accomplish it.

> As for your other reply:
> 
>> Just didn't expect that what I'd consider basic functionality in a 
>> power text editor to be in a bundle
> 
> The idea with TextMate is that as much as possible should be in the 
> bundles, because only in the bundles can users truly modify things, and 
> if we can make all the “basic functionality” as bundle items, then we 
> can make a lot as bundle items, for example those commands you are 
> missing :)

I'm starting to learn that.  It's just taking me some time and 
repetition to get used to thinking that way.  It's a whole new way of 
thinking about editors that is taking me some time to get used to!  But 
I'm starting to like the flexibility and power as I understand it more.

Charley