From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-03-07T18:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no TextMate for Linux?

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Paul Harrington <xenogenesis@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
>> A better question might be why so much of the Ruby community has
>> embraced a
>> proprietary editor which is only available for a proprietary OS.
>
> Probably because its very good software on a very good OS? Using
> proprietary technology actually does not stop the progress of open
> source.
Because it is derived (completely legally) from one of the soundest
and best open source projects there have ever been, openBSD. I feel
that David's concern is very reasonable in a world in which Apple and
Google are about to rival for domination. I am using gmail, r ight and
I am not criticizing anyone who uses MacOS and Textmate. However
wondering why seems legitimate.
I also feel that I can do much more with gvim than Textmate will ever
be able to do, but I am aware that much, much setup work is needed to
get there. (Probably the same is true for emacs). Textmate is
incredibly powerful out of the starting blocks, but vim is almost like
emacs an OS.
Ruby integration into VIM is very basic but powerful enough to get us
anywhere :).
Because after all this ML is about Ruby and not editors (well at least
when I checked back last time)

cheers
R
>
> (That being said, I code with Vim in Linux, so...)
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>



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