From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-03-11T13:48:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no TextMate for Linux?

On Wednesday 10 March 2010 07:55:09 pm andrew mcelroy wrote:
> Redcar is making a lot of progress. It is a JRuby text editor that is
> attempting to be a complete clone and fully compatible with the text mate
> snippets. It has been stable enough to begin to code with for a little
>  while now.

Looks interesting.

The only reason I mention Diakonos is that if I was going to start learning a 
new editor, I might want a console one if I can make that work -- it'd be 
something I can actually run over SSH, on remote machines, without having to 
mount the filesystems first via sshfs.

Right now, I just use Kate, and vim when I have to ssh.

> You could theoretically meta program the editor much in the same way you
>  can IRB.

That's the idea.

And yes, more power to Redcar, and Diakonos, and anything else. My rant was 
specifically against relying on a single piece of proprietary software for 
your development -- if there's actually a reasonable replacement by now, so be 
it, though if I went that route, I'd suggest Redcar on OS X as well.