From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs vs. TextMate (not trying to start an editor war) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:09:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4875C3BF.5040008@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215677414 31831 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 08:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:10:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Cezar Halmagean Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 10:11:01 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KGrEu-0008Aq-Pk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:10:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGrE3-0004wp-5r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGrDl-0004uL-FJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:09:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGrDj-0004tw-SQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:09:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37177 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGrDj-0004tt-Ot for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:34405) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGrDj-0003hj-Ee for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:63637 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KGrDh-00060R-8P; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:09:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080709-1, 2008-07-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KGrDh-00060R-8P. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KGrDh-00060R-8P 8ba1012f185e8a7fe2063ae6af527304 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55372 Archived-At: Cezar Halmagean wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using emacs for the past 5 years or so and I've recently > stumbled upon TextMate. I love the way TextMate handles *web modes* > like integration of html + javascript + css in the same file and > I've always had a problem doing that in emacs. > > I wonder what's the problem, why has an editor like TextMate gone so > far in just a few years and Emacs is still not there yet. Maybe the problem is that you did not try nXhtml with Emacs? ;-) http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NxhtmlMode I think that can do what you want. Could you please try and let me know how it works for you? Is there anything TextMate does that you miss in nXhtml+Emacs? Do you have any other suggestion for improvement?