Re: Emacs vs. TextMate (not trying to start an editor war)

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Cezar Halmagean wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>
> > Cezar Halmagean wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >  I have been using emacs for the past 5 years or so and I've recently
> > >  stumbled upon TextMate. I love the way TextMate handles *web modes*
> > >  like integration of html + javascript + css in the same file and
> > >  I've always had a problem doing that in emacs.
> > >  I wonder what's the problem, why has an editor like TextMate gone so
> > >  far in just a few years and Emacs is still not there yet.
> >
> >
> > Maybe the problem is that you did not try nXhtml with Emacs? ;-)
> >
> >  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/NxhtmlMode
> >
> > I think that can do what you want. Could you please try and let me 
> > know how it works for you? Is there anything TextMate does that you 
> > miss in nXhtml+Emacs? Do you have any other suggestion for improvement?
>
> Well I did try this mode a few times actually but I will give it another 
> shot.
>
> What I am really interested in is also rails support (rhtml or something).
>
> I will let you knwo how this worked out


I am not sure how it works with rails at the moment, but I hope that we 
will have time to look into it soon.

However, please use the latest beta since there is a correction to the 
indentation support for eRuby.