From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cezar Halmagean Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs vs. TextMate (not trying to start an editor war) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:39:46 -0700 Message-ID: <16831.2407368377$1215758490@news.gmane.org> References: <47107.6355003335$1215674200@news.gmane.org> <87fxqh34jk.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> <87abgprpta.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215758437 15301 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2008 06:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:40:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 11 08:41:21 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 1KHCJk-0005cL-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:41:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHCIs-00033p-N6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHCIT-00033a-CW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHCIQ-000337-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43576 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHCIQ-000334-39 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52665 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHCIQ-0007HR-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KHCIM-0004J7-ND for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:39:54 +0000 Original-Received: from c-76-21-40-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([76.21.40.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:39:54 +0000 Original-Received: from cezar by c-76-21-40-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:39:54 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-21-40-194.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W0D1GnNqygDj3gjq8OcOOth5RYo= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:55418 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > The most likely reason textmate has what you want and emacs apparently > doesn't is that nobody in the emacs community has stepped up to write > what you want. Maybe the textmate community has more people willing to > step up and add what they see as missing while the emacs community has > members who would rather sit around philosophising. Sadly thats so true. Even so, knowing that *it is* possible gives me hope, I would try and create such a mode in my free time but I am not sure how much work is needed for that as I am a n00b elisper. Maybe folks here could help me getting started. Are there any tutorials on the subject ? Cezar