Re: Apple hiring $MS programmers?

On 2008-02-29, Michelle Steiner <michelle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <slrnfsf6sf.hla.foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ian Gregory <foo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Once you know how it works it makes some sense although from
what I have seen and heard I certainly don't rate TextEdit as
a text editor and I can quite understand why people pay good
money for apps like BBEdit.

It doesn't rate as a text editor? I guess that you haven't explored it
very well. In its Rich Text mode, it's almost a word processor.

Well that is *part* of the problem. What is it doing trying to
be a "word processor"? It might as well try to be a chess program.

You can choose fonts and sizes, font styles,

Well that would be fine if it was a "word processor".

Most people who buy BBEdit do so for its HTML support;

They do? Not just because it is a much better text editor, which
happens to have all that advanced text editory stuff to help
writing code and markup in all sorts of languages, including
HTML?

Ian

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