From: Jan <jan@...>
Date: 2004-11-25T04:18:01+09:00
Subject: Re: editors/IDEs

Jamie Orchard-Hays wrote:

> TextMate is pretty cool, but rough around the edges. It's got the Ruby 
> menu, but the last thing I want to do is use a menu-driven way of 
> inserting methods, blocks, etc. It's horribly ineffecient to me. Type 
> reach for the track pad, open menu, find, click. UGH! (Also something I 
> don't like about BBEdit's html menus.) I'll definitely be keeping my eye 
> on it. Hopefully they will get their emacs bindings straight.
> 

Actually you can bind a keyboard shortcut to every 
snippet/command/macro. In the case of snippets, you can type a trigger, 
and press <tab>. Press tab a few times to get into the predefined 
interesting positions. Type case<tab> and you get

case object
  when condition

end

Object is pre-selected, type someting, press tab, and "condition" gets 
selected,.. Really nicely done if you ask me.
You can also do auto-completion by pressing escape, but it only works if 
you already wrote the word somewhere before in your source code.