[TxMt] Re: Honest assessment of TM2's state please!

[Martin Hess]

I agree with David on this. While I would love to know more, Alan has been very clear about TM2. It will be ready when it is ready and he will not be making any announcements about progress or a release date.

Alan has said that he is working on TM2 and he will live up to the upgrade commitment to his current customers. He is fixing little bugs as they appear, and he answers mail on TM1 issues; that is really all he owes his customers. 

While I'm a fan of TM, I have spent sometime learning other editors and the one that has come closest to being a TM replacement is VIM. It has a huge developer community, I can install it on any computer, it works through a terminal so I can use it anywhere. The thing I've learned to like best about it is that it is all keyboard driven. I know that is an odd thing to hear from a Mac person, especially one that has been using Macs since '84. There is a pretty big learning curve to be faster in VIM than TM, but I'm definitely faster in VIM. I actually said that wrong; there is an enormous learning curve but it is great when you finally get through it.

However, VIM lacks the polish, and the plugin stability of TM. I would love to have a TM2 that is better than VIM, but until that time I'm mostly on VIM.


On Apr 25, 2011, at 12:00 PM, David Clark <david at davidsaccess.com> wrote:

Alan does not owe anybody anything.

If you are unhappy with TM1 use another application - end of story.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Jenny Harrison <profharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
> You are so right, Gerd.  The time has come for Allan to be open and frank with us.
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