From: Gabe McArthur <madeonamac@...>
Date: 2006-10-04T09:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Nw version of the TextMate book is available


> OK, I'll bite:  What has Textmate got that Vi or Emacs lack?  The screen
> shots on the web site look beautiful...  Is that basically the value add?
Simplicity + Elegance = Power
I like to think of it as a little bit of Ruby (convention over
configuration) and a little bit of Unix (do one thing and do it well).
I like vim, especially the new 7.0 version (the moded thing can annoy
me, though); emacs is ok (the 'learn a new, domain specific language so
that you can understand how to edit text' bothers me a bit).
Really, TextMate just edits text.  No more, no less (ok, with version
control, a little more).  And with powerful completion, highlighting,
and shortcuts, it makes easy things quick and the hard things bearable.