From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs vs. TextMate (not trying to start an editor war) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:55:20 +0900 Message-ID: <8763rdqopj.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <47107.6355003335$1215674200@news.gmane.org> <87fxqh34jk.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> <877ibt33p4.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215736859 4507 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2008 00:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:40:59 +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 02:41:46 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 1KH6hm-0005SS-H7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:41:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40379 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KH6gv-00036I-An for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:40:53 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net soHfnn5NZHT9ueHPYnNuRwAeGg9zkBkNsOoLwp4QmM5Bpy6J1a Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cr/arayDCyESyVoDFEhAft8QfBI= sha1:T4VD2pV9fI4Nhz/Qg/I9PdzBUkw= System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160060 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:55407 Archived-At: Cezar Halmagean writes: > Well, maybe you haven't been looking for a mode that *works* for web > development, as that's what we were talking about in this thread. There > are editors like TextMate which is only a few years onld and can handle > that much better than Emacs can do it now. > > Again, I am not sure why this is happening but the truth is, I need to > write code (for web) easier not go learn another language to figure out > if I can create a mode to help me write code, cause that takes time > which I don't have right now. AIUI, textmate's internal engine was written specifically to support this kind of nested mode well, so it's not surprising that it does so. Emacs does not have this sort of special support. So if you compare them in that specific case, textmate looks pretty good. However it's far from clear that textmate would fare as well in a more general comparison. -Miles -- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. [George Carlin]