[TxMt] How can TextMate be so popular???

[Michael Gregoire]

HA HA HA! Nice way to lighten up the 'discussion'... thanks.


On Mar 6, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Steven W. Riggins wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:58 AM, tlm wrote:
>
>> I just gave TextMate a try...
>>
>> I'm sorry to say it was simply awful, which brings me up against the
>> troubling paradox of TextMate's growing popularity.  This is truly a
>> big conundrum for me, one that I'd love to figure out...
>>
>>
>> Please someone tell me how can it be that software like this is not
>> only for sale, but actually SELLING???  What did I miss?
>>
>> tlm
>
> I know!  It's so horrible!
>
> I really hate how the patterns fill in the enclosing pattern  
> matches, like a ) for (.  What is MORE ANNOYING is that no other  
> app does this!  So now I'm in mail typing ( and waiting, waiting,  
> but damnit, no closing )!
>
> I really hate that I can edit the source for the bundles.  If it  
> needs editing, surely its broken!
>
> Now take the fact that TextMate has forced me to use it for posting  
> to my Movable Type Blog.  It was buggy, but I was lured into fixing  
> the issues and then I found myself using it.  I even changed my  
> site to use tags over categories because it was more flexible and  
> MarsEdit could not handle Tags.  Damnit TextMate, even more work I  
> had to do!
>
> I'm really annoyed at the HTML include function.  It was not  
> handling \" in variables, until I realized that oh I really should  
> be using single quotes anyway.  Shoot that TextMate for making me  
> use proper quoting in my include files.
>
> Oh!  And it remembers what files I had open when I quit!  WHAT IS  
> UP WITH THAT!  I was writing this steamy letter to my girlfriend in  
> markdown (What girl doesn't love markdown syntax) and then I went  
> to a friend's place.  I fired up TextMate to edit a config file and  
> there was my steamy letter!  Grrrr!  Oh wait, that didn't happen.   
> but it does open the files I was last working on in my Xcode  
> projects and saves me a bunch of time.  Damnit, now I have to WORK  
> vs. playing recent menu chicken dance!
>
> I'm really annoyed that I can modify a bundle and keep a local  
> version of just the changes, and they merge with fixes to other  
> bundle bits with software updates.  Where is the fun in that?
>
> And since the blogging bundle was written in Ruby, which I had  
> never used before, I had to LEARN Ruby to extend it.  To hell with  
> you Textmate for giving me a fun excuse to learn a new language!
>
> I can't even begin to tell you how much time I have wasted watching  
> screencasts only to learn something useful.  Sheesh!
>
> Oh how could I forget full keyboard navigation.  I find myself in  
> Mail.app bonking and beeping because I'm pressing keys it doesn't  
> know about.  grr!
>
> I should just go back to TextEdit.
>
> Steve
>
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