Personaly I think that there should be a dedicated editor because text is a 
crap, but as I have to edit some text files I am using TextMate because it has 
syntax highlighting. I made a bundle for TextMate because I want to have syntax 
highlighting for Pillar. That’s it.

Uko

On 21 Apr 2014, at 16:07, Robert Shiplett <grshipl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> we had developers wanting Mac's so that they could run TextMate.  Rather like 
> the Sales exec'son the other side of the building who wanted to keep their 
> Blackberry after the acquisition ( in the mad-mad s/w world in North America, 
> the developers will be forbidden Mac's but the marketing people will be using 
> them.)
> 
> It is probably me who doesn't understand why there is not yet a truly 
> portable rich text editor for programmers ;-)
> ( no that plugin for eclipse was NOT what I had in mind. )
> 
> Because it does seem to me that every "and we have a TextMate plugin" is a 
> symptom of a mild disorder rather than a nostrum ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 21 April 2014 09:47, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote:
> As you are replying to my email I guess you have some feedback or request 
> about my bundle.
> 
> Honestly I haven’t understood a thing after reading your reply once. I’ll try 
> to read it more times later.
> 
> Cheers
> Uko
> 
> On 21 Apr 2014, at 15:06, Robert Shiplett <grshipl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> re: textmite
>> 
>> Q : what is currently the best Unicode text "notes 
>> collator"/editor/formatter/previewer/printer/versioning-compat app written 
>> in a Smalltalk dialect ?  Any one component of the above ?  RTF text 
>> editing/formatting widget?
>> 
>> Sketch/draw/coloring app ? Check.
>> complex telco routing app ? Check.
>> multi-dim data visualization app ? Check.
>> real-time high-speed robotic arm/articulated-joint controller app ? Check.
>> 
>> Can anything be learned from the successes/issues of the Sciter 
>> editor/component project ?
>> 
>> ( was just remembering when the Norton Programmer Editor came WITH the 
>> assembler code )
>> 
>> Is there an open source Objective-C variant of a decent Mac editor ?
>> 
>> ( as TextMate is SOooo far from being cross-platform, right ? )
>> 
>> It is not enough for an editor to "consume" TextMate templates, is it ? ( an 
>> analogy that likely would not be irritating to others escapes me at the 
>> moment ... )
>> 
>> Are constraints behavior what makes good editors so difficult to maintain ? 
>> ( assuming elegant/extensible constraints modelling and resolution IS the 
>> app challenge for text formatting for  WYSIWYG approvals )
>> 
>> Is there now a constraint resolution module callable from a Smalltalk 
>> dialect ?
>> 
>> I am using a graphical programming language that has 2 approaches to 
>> constraints for text layout : one you get to tinker about in an API, one you 
>> get to request layout for text/font/font_attribs and you accept the results 
>> ( the Alan Knight O-O no-internals-SVP version ? )
>> 
>> A pythonic quasi-logic language with minimalist constraints for Unicode text 
>> is under development in UK ; I am alpha testing one such non-graphical 
>> prgrm'g lang for Unicode text-only from USA, but it is NOT cross platform 
>> oddly enough; Logtalk + swi-prolog also has constraints handling ;  
>> typed-Prolog AKA Mercury gen's C or Erlang ; Oz has gone quiet since 1.4 and 
>> Lively Kernel ?  I have lost track of Croquet.  User-friendly Scheme is now 
>> called Racket, btw.  And "Claire", the lang ? Alice ?
>> 
>> [ by way of explanation : this Monday is a bank-holiday here, but the 
>> nearest beaches have ice piled on them and its some other holiday in USA ; 
>> now for morning java ( as in coffee ) ]  Isn't "brackets" some editor 
>> project ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 21 April 2014 07:25, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> > On 20 Apr 2014, at 12:22, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote:
>> >
>> > What does it do?
>> 
>> For now on - syntax highlighting. I'll try to add more features in future
>> 
>> Uko
>> 
>> >
>> > Norbert
>> >
>> >> Am 20.04.2014 um 08:35 schrieb Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com>:
>> >>
>> >> Dear guys who use Pillar.
>> >>
>> >> I’m happy to announce that I’ve created a small bundle for TextMate. You 
>> >> can find it here: https://github.com/Uko/Pillar.tmbundle
>> >>
>> >> Also I’ve exported it to ATOM (new editor from github) package, but it’s 
>> >> crappy because ATOM lacks some stuff right not. Package is called: 
>> >> language-pillar, source is here: https://github.com/Uko/language-pillar
>> >>
>> >> I will be happy to hear your feedback, and add more features.
>> >>
>> >> Happy Easter!
>> >> Uko
>> >>
>> >> P.S. (won’t be online for ≈30hours)
>> >
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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