Hi. I'm a bbedit user from 1999, maybe before. I'm a web developer, so my languages are mainly html, css, js, php, less, ruby. Now I need to learn and use Slim. Over the last years I've been tempted more than a time to switch to more 'modern' text editors like Text Mate and Espresso. I always decided to stick on bbedit because I ended up thinking it has more features after all, and some better ones. I also made a lot of feature suggestions over the years. In the best cases, i was told 'yes, we will think later', and never saw them done. So I'm not expecting nothing more here, but I try..
I see the new player is Sublime Text. It's quite innovative in many things. It doesn't matter. But it can use TextMate Bundles. I need Slim text coloring and it seems there's still no language module for that. Also, I think at least 1 year ago I pointed out that Less was going to be a standard, and bbedit needed a less module. Angry folks said no no it's sass. That was the answer. Now the devs "seem" to be considering including less. Less IS a standard. The fact is just this: bbedit badly need a better way to be able to quickly adapt to new languages. Sublime solved it by being textmate-compatible. Smart. Yes, there are codeless language modules. Some say, do one by yourself. I say I could, but it's not so simple, still not enough. Codeless language modules are not enough. Maybe it's simply not possible to find a more simple way to define one, but there's at least another way to let programmers find quickly a new module: use a shared way. And a way that shares with a mainstream way, so there more code from more good programmers. Will it happen in bbedit? I think no, as always, but I always try. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
