[TxMt] Re: sublime text 2 (slightly OT)

[Steve King]

On 2011-05-11 03:58, Jerry wrote:
> I'll keep my eye on it though. I think I mentioned this before, but the everything-in-one-window paradigm sucks IMHO especially on a laptop--it's just crappy real estate management.

You're entitled to your opinion (however wrong it may be :-) but I'm not 
sure I understand the comment vis-a-vis ST2 and TM.  They have very 
similar windowing paradigms.  Both let you have multiple document 
windows, and multiple tabs within a window.  ST2 even allows you to drag 
a tab from one window to another, which TM doesn't.  The only real 
difference as far as I can tell is that TM has dialogs (such as Find) as 
a separate window, where ST2 incorporates them into a panel in the 
current window.

And for the record, I have completely the opposite opinion of windows 
and real-estate management. I find separate windows a pain, especially 
on a laptop.  Some window is always obscuring the one I want to look at, 
and I'm constantly re-arranging them so I can see the relevant portion 
of something. I love the split-pane view where I can work on one 
document and refer to another without worrying about them overlapping. I 
hope TM2 supports some form of split panes, in addition to multiple 
windows and multiple tabs per window.

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Steve King
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