scottstuff : Farewell, sweet XEmacs

Comment on Farewell, sweet XEmacs by Sean

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:10:50 -0700

Me too!

Not so coincidentally my subscription to this blog, my growing love for Rails and Ruby (including RubyCocoa), my switch to typo for my own blog http://informage.net and my switch to TextMate from XEMacs have all occurred over the same recent time frame. In fact I bought my TextMate license just last week. I too have a history with Emacs going back to the late 80s, although I’ve consorted with a few other editors along the way (DevStudio when I was doing Win32/C++, Eclipse for some Java stuff, then back to Emacs for PHP and Python). One thing I always missed after leaving Windows and DevStudio was a handy ‘incremental open’ plug-in. TextMate’s command-T is the first perfect reproduction of this functionality I’ve found and was enough alone to sell it to me, quite aside from the supremely sensible way that auto-closing brackets, snippets and commands. This is an editor written by someone who likes what I like, just like Rails to web frameworks - I was one of the Apache Turbine authors and was trying to do a lot of the same stuff, albeit far more clumsily.

So, glad to meet a fellow traveller…

Comment on Farewell, sweet XEmacs by wac

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:35:36 -0700

If you pull the bleeding-edge bundles from the TextMate SVN repo they have a bundle for using SVK. Haven’t used them yet myself, I’d be curious how well they worked out.

Comment on Farewell, sweet XEmacs by Phil

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:00:49 -0700

Yeah, I was never really happy with Emacs on Mac OS X, but now that I’m on Ubuntu, it’s much happier. Also tabbar.el solves all the “too confusing when you have many files open” problems.

But if you’ve already spent the money, why am I telling you this?…

And you’re right, rhtml is a pain. I’ve never found out how to fix that.

Comment on Farewell, sweet XEmacs by David Chilton

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 20:36:52 -0700

I agree on BBEdit. I’ve used a few times the last couple of years and really tried to like it, but I could never really understand what about it was worth $200. Maybe back in the of Classic Mac OS, before the wealth of free software we experience now on the Mac, it would have been worth it to web developers, but not anymore. The only thing TextWrangler or BBEdit has over TextMate is code parsing for functions. They don’t have that for Ruby though, so when I need it in C/C++/ I just go back to Xcode.

TextMate’s one of the only pieces of (non-game) software I’ve enjoyed enough to buy.

Comment on Farewell, sweet XEmacs by Seth Morabito

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:34:52 -0800

I’ve been doing a TON of Ruby and Ruby on Rails development lately.

When I’m on my iBook, I use TextMate. I bought it too, and it’s been worth every penny.

But my main big development workstation is a Linux box, and I’ve been using emacs for years. Now I find myself craving TextMate for Linux :)

Or, rather… I find myself craving a big Mac development workstation.