From: Charles Roper <reachme@...>
Date: 2010-03-11T19:53:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Why no TextMate for Linux?

On 11/03/2010 07:17, sl4m wrote:
> While I have not tried, the linux version of e-texteditor (originally only
> for Windows) is free and available here:
> http://wiki.github.com/etexteditor/e/.

Another vote for E Text Editor here. It's coming along nicely on Linux:

http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/linux-progress
http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/building-e-on-fedora-10
http://www.e-texteditor.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=11

Read about the author's own unique style of open source here, which is 
an interesting story in its own right:

http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2009/opencompany

On 06/03/2010 04:31, 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.

I think that could be a classic case of a 'Tipping Point'[1] moment. The 
original Rails screencasts by David were done in TextMate on a Mac. At 
the time, I remember being allured and wowed by the editor as much as 
Rails (and Ruby) itself. I had already come across Ruby before, but this 
frankly /sexy/ demonstration was what swung me over to it 
wholeheartedly. From there - that original sales pitch - the epidemic 
spread through the mavens and connectors (bloggers and influential 'web 
2.0' people). To get on board and be like David one had to have TextMate 
and, of course, a Mac. I suppose, in a way, it's a bit like kids wanting 
the same boots as their favourite soccer stars.

Having said that, I still don't have either a Mac or TextMate, so go 
figure. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point

Charles