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 12:57:49 -0700 Organization: Mix & Go Message-ID: References: <47107.6355003335$1215674200@news.gmane.org> <87fxqh34jk.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215719934 20042 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 19:58:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:58:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 21:59:42 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 1KH2In-0001Qw-7P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:59:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KH2Hv-0001Fi-No for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KH2HE-00014P-FE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KH2HC-00013a-Mp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39195 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KH2HC-00013R-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:48394 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 1KH2HB-00024H-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KH2H8-0005wI-MP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:57:58 +0000 Original-Received: from 208.71.158.250 ([208.71.158.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:57:58 +0000 Original-Received: from cezar by 208.71.158.250 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:57:58 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.71.158.250 User-Agent: Unison/1.8.1 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:55392 Archived-At: On 2008-07-10 12:47:11 -0700, adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) said: > Cezar Halmagean writes: > >> 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. > > Still not where? Still not the best text editor, no wait, the best > piece of software ever created? > > Oh wait, nevermind... > > You probably just haven't tried the right add-ons yet, or written them > yourself ;) You have the freedom to do both. > Joel Dude, are you high or sumthin ? I know what Emacs is and that you can write your own OS from scratch if you want. You seem to be missing the point though. Cezar