Sam Smoot
2/26/2007 11:23:00 PM
It looks pretty nice, congrats!
Now that I work on a Mac, I'm not really in the market anymore, but if
I might offer a suggestion?
I want an editor with good syntax highlighting, color themes, and
snippet support, in that order. I don't see alternative color themes
mentioned anywhere on your website. It's just anecdotal, but I haven't
seen anyone use textmate with any of the "dark on light" themes, so
I've always found it puzzling that most Windows editors make you jump
through hoops, picking each and every individual color to get a decent
"light on dark" environment.
There are several editors on Windows that have decent syntax-
highlighting, but not a single one (that I found) that makes getting a
decent light-on-dark color theme going anywhere near as painless as
TextMate. So for me, *that* was the number 1 selling point. Maybe some
people consider that stupid, or just don't mind configuring the colors
individually, but from my perspective it seems a woefully
underserviced area in Windows editors, and someone is bound to make a
killing in the market _someday_ if they get that right. You just can't
differentiate on technical wins, you have to make the interface
something people don't mind staring at for 8+ hours a day.