[TxMt] Re: Another Editor War Sparked by TextMate

[Russell E Owen]

In article <6D2C3ED7-C6D3-4910-A124-DF57991176CB at macromates.com>,
 Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at macromates.com> 
 wrote:

> 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.

Thank you!! That is great news!! I'm glad it's planned for 2.0 and would 
be thrilled to see it come out before then. It is the one thing that has 
kept me from switching to TextMate.

-- Russell