Thanks for weighing in on this Rich, always interesting to hear from the man himself.
It seems like I and the others on this thread do have Emacs or any number of similarly configurable text editors in mind when we're asking for a feature like this to be considered. It's very clear that BBEdit is "opinionated" in a way that Emacs in particular, isn't. The mantra there (among Emacs users) has long been "If you can do it in a text window, go right ahead, it's not up to us". As I've said at times throughout this discussion, it may be (as you point out) that other things would have to change in order for the keybindings to be configurable in this way. Coming from primarily a web background, I don't have nearly enough experience with Objective-C to know if this is the case, but it is the best guess I can make at this point. >From my support emails with Patrick, it appeared initially that this was a philosophical decision, not driven by technology. However, I realize now that the reality is a bit more nuanced than that. It would be a welcome addition at some point, but I wouldn't want that to take away from any effort to keep BBEdit as fast and reliable as it is. On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:41:05 PM UTC-4, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Watts Martin <lay...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > >Quasi-seriously, I think BBEdit often seems to be of the opinion that > >shortcuts are for wimps in general. > > BBEdit is a software product and is not sentient. :-) You may be > thinking of Emacs, which has Lisp built into it and is therefore > self aware. > > >I'm pretty sure that things like auto-pairing and syntax-aware > >indenting have been requested for years and rejected, and discussions > >about it tend to show two rather black-and-white standpoints on the > >subject that boil down to "those are the best things ever" and "those > >are crutches that get in the way." > > I can't speak to what other people think, but I'm of the opinion > that a great many language-sensitive features are extremely > tricky to get right, and I'd rather do it right than do it > half-assed. Even then, doing it right may involve making > tradeoffs that I would prefer not to make, and therefore I will > opt for not doing it at all rather than doing something half-assed. > > R. > -- > Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. > <sie...@barebones.com <javascript:>> < > http://www.barebones.com/> > > Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they > sedate me. > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
