Basically this was the only program I could find which was similar in workflow to TextMate and provided in-program FTP/SVN support (with a few hacks).
However, the program was so poorly designed and so buggy that it made working extremely tedious and dysfunctional. It made me start thinking about how somebody could release a program so ridiculously buggy and what were the underlying reasons. While the programmer is the first obvious target, I realized that the Windows framework was probably to blame. It's not the framework itself, but the way it makes you code. It was hard for me to justify continuing to use such a flawed system, as it scared me to think that potentially all these ill effects may be rubbing off on me. As a result, I switched to Mac the next day.
Therefore, E texteditor made me lose enough faith in Windows and Windows programs, which I had been using since 3.1 (even using 1.0 at one point in 1995), that I switched my entire operating system. I haven't looked back since. It may have been coming anyways, but it was a good decision.
Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. Most users of E suffer from a few bugs because the developer likes to get release early and release often, so bugs often creep in, but they have mostly been fixed very quickly. I'm not sure why you should have had such problems. I've used E for a couple of years now and have only been troubled a couple of times; generally it's been very stable.
Basically this was the only program I could find which was similar in workflow to TextMate and provided in-program FTP/SVN support (with a few hacks).
However, the program was so poorly designed and so buggy that it made working extremely tedious and dysfunctional. It made me start thinking about how somebody could release a program so ridiculously buggy and what were the underlying reasons. While the programmer is the first obvious target, I realized that the Windows framework was probably to blame. It's not the framework itself, but the way it makes you code. It was hard for me to justify continuing to use such a flawed system, as it scared me to think that potentially all these ill effects may be rubbing off on me. As a result, I switched to Mac the next day.
Therefore, E texteditor made me lose enough faith in Windows and Windows programs, which I had been using since 3.1 (even using 1.0 at one point in 1995), that I switched my entire operating system. I haven't looked back since. It may have been coming anyways, but it was a good decision.