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How does this (and TextMate) compare to vim and Emacs?

• basil 18y ago
  Textmate and Espresso and all other visual editors don't compare to Vim/Emacs. Sure Textmate may have some keybindings, but you can't use Textmate while ssh'd to a remote server.
  • nailer 18y ago
    Yes you can. There have been stable user-level filesystem drivers for years for Linux, Mac and Windows. Also Textmate / eText / gedit with gedit plugins have: * Richer interfaces (eg, code folding on out of the box) * Better discoverability (eg, you can stumble upon how to change your tab width faster in these apps than you can using vimtutor) * Easier customization (ever tried writing a vi syntax schema)?
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    • mhartl 18y ago
      Better discoverability This is a big overlooked weakness of both Emacs and Vi(m). After about five years of using Vi I switched to a friendlier editor, NEdit; within a couple months, I was better at using NEdit than I was at Vi, mainly because of discoverability. I then used (X)Emacs for a couple of years (mainly for Python programming, though the original motivation was learning Lisp), and found it rather opaque. Now I use TextMate, and I've had the same basic experience as with NEdit.
• davidw 18y ago
  Sort of like a little bike with training wheels and streamers coming out the ends of the handlebars compared to something like this: http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/mountain_hardtail/9_series/elite99ssl/ http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/mountain_hardtail/9_ser... Emacs is open source, but so scriptable that I don't think I've ever talked with anyone who's ever delved into the C code. Textmate, on the other hand, is not open source, and so you depend entirely on the author to provide you with timely updates and features. It may be scriptable to some degree, but if you want to do something more with it, you simply can't.
  • tortilla 18y ago
    Off topic, but that's a sweet sweet bike.