Thanks Rich, Seth, Jonathan, Steve, Doug and Ted After Rich's email yesterday about looking at paying someone to write a module, I went back to the basics.
First, I looked at the time and money it will take me to write a module from scratch (with the aim to make it available to community for use). It was an option I was willing to try if I didn't have to start from the absolute basics -- which is something that I would have to given that BBEdit has HTML/XML support baked in. Then I looked at other editors in the Mac space that would do the job. I had another look at TextMate which I had tried a few years back. At that stage I had decided in favour of BBEdit. This time I also gave Coda a try. And after working for 24 hours with it, I have to say that the feature set is quite compelling. It has out-of-the-box support for CFML (and the language module for all languages that it ships with are not baked in, leading to easy extensibility). It's interface is quite friendly and useful. And it is as fast (or faster) than BBEdit. It might not offer all the features of BBEdit, but at the moment my primary concern was to get a good editor that supports easy extensibility through plugins and clippings, CFML syntax support, and FTP (outside of Eclipse/CFEclipse, which I use at the moment). Given that it is under 100 dollars, which is significantly less than what I would have to pay someone else to write a BBEdit module (or the cost of my time if I was to write it myself from scratch), I think I'm going to be making that investment. I appreciate your time once again. Indy PS: Ted, I take it that you are not too happy with CF. I guess it is a matter of perference as to which language you choose to work in. But that discussion is better carried elsewhere. Try Coda if you want CFML support. Also, I'm not sure if you've tried Railo -- the open-source CF engine... very quick and free! On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:03 AM, G. T. Stresen-Reuter < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Nagpal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Don't get me wrong, I like BBEdit and wanted to just make it a more > > useful for ColdFusion users, I started thinking about writing the > > language module. > > This isn't an ideal solution but you can tell bbedit to treat cf files > as html and that gives you some syntax highlighting for free. I too > would benefit from cf highlighting (although i would benefit more if i > never had to touch cf ever again)! > > Ted stresen-Reuter > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
