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

[Allan Odgaard]

On 6. Mar 2007, at 22:14, tlm wrote:

> [...] Are you telling me that every time I want to open a new file  
> I have the choice of either using the GUI or switching to a  
> Terminal window so that I can use the CLI?  I certainly prefer the  
> latter over the former, but it is awkward at best.  Sheesh...

See http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/ 
working_with_multiple_files#moving_between_files_with_grace for other  
options.

> [...] (So don't blame the OSX Help system for TM's developers'  
> incompetence.)

When you select Help from TextMate, notice that a new icon appears in  
your dock. If you hover the mouse over it, it has a title of “Help  
Viewer”, you can control-click the icon and select “Show in Finder”,  
and you should see, that it reveals that the Help Viewer is located  
under Core Services -- I did not write this piece of software.

As for the problem you are seeing: after you have clicked on a search  
result, be sure to click the main window once more, now try the Find  
dialog, this will make it work (by making the HTML view the first  
responder) -- this is a problem with the Help Viewer, it also  
manifests itself by not allowing the arrow up/down keys to scroll the  
document, after clicking a search result.

> [...] In my original post I wrote that to design software to beep  
> without giving the user an error message is an inexcusable bit of  
> software engineering malpractice [...] I guess we only differ in  
> that I have higher standards for software than you all [...]

As a developer I am always interested in improving my skills. Given  
your attention to detail and high standards, would you have any  
software on the marked I could try out for inspiration?