the ryan king

I spend a lot of time writing text on a computer. Mostly just one computer and increasing in one application. I write so much markup (with and without angle-brackets), code and prose that I need to have a customized environment to help me out. I really wish it could be the same environment/editor for everything, but, unfortunately, browser <textarea>s, Mail.app and IM windows all all different input environments and must all be customized separately.

Uh, why?

Text editors should be useable as plugins in other apps which require text editing. I don’t know how Cocoa internals work, but I would think that there’d be a way to define an interface which such plugins could implement, which would allow interoperability.

I just want to use TextMate for everything, but as it is I’m required to do a lot of cut-’n-pasting to make this happen.