![]() ![]() □ Perhaps you could answer a different question: why did you create TextMate? That's awfully gracious of you, considering it's my blog and I asked the question. I'll let others comment on why they would use it or stay with BBEdit Repeating menu keys (hold down cmd-Z) strike me as silly. It didn't seem "Mac-like," if I may extend that phrase to include a standard of behavior beyond an OS itself and onto indie Mac developers. For me, your request of your users came between efforts between me and Brent Simmons to work together on something that mutually benefitted NNW and PulpFiction and right after we'd talked with just about every other text editor we could think of to add the ODB support to FTPeel. It's in that same vein that I found the fact that you'd tell your customers to bug us about ODB support unusual and something unlike what "the Mac software arena" was used to. Having users who both knew the Mac, how to develop for it, and various other associated things using your app is a "win." Only good could come of sharing and treating other indie Mac developers well. We were all working on the same problems, after all. Or when they might share an idea with you. You never knew when someone might, through experimentation, come up with a nifty way to use your app or to integrate it with their own in ways that benefitted you both. Why? Because we took care of each other, had a sense of brotherhood, and - most importantly - because it made sense to. FSS handed out MailDrop, PulpFiction, and FTPeel licenses like candy to other indie Mac developers. Licenses among the indie Mac software developers were freely shared. The "Mac software arena" (I remember typing "software" because "Mac arena" is a bad song and dance) remains small, and though I've removed myself from it to a great extent, I remember saying that to you (though I don't care for the lack of context) and I remember how I felt. At any rate…Īt the time, Freshly Squeezed Software was doing well, and we had an application - an FTP app - that worked with a number of text editors. And let me be clear in saying that I don't appreciate a private conversation being made public. No matter what, you probably won't find what's cool about TextMate just by editing two lines of text. I'd recommend you at least watch the two Objective-C screencasts (given how you have worked with this) and the customization screencast (to get a feel for just how powerful the language grammar / scope selector system is). I'll let others comment on why they would use it or stay with BBEdit, but you may have a look at some of the screencasts (or even the manual) to learn what the editor has to offer. I was never sure how to interpret the last part of the sentence, and I am reminded of it, each time someone tells me you blogged how TextMate is the shit for letting you down.Īnd this is not to indicate I am offended by your posts  many users do indeed share your hate of the non-chunked undo, and it will change sometime in the future. ![]() Your response was: "It should make a great deal of sense, but perhaps you'll learn that as you spend time in the Mac software arena". Warning: Undefined variable $results in /var/on line 1184Įrik, do you remember the day I released TextMate, you wrote me to say that: "my initial reaction is poor" and then asked for some sort of license exchange deal, which I found odd, given how you clearly did not like the product. ![]()
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