Yes. All word processors have it. BBEdit used to have it. Siegel removed it as an option because "it confused users." Excuse me? Coders can't figure out a simple feature that every word processor has?

Also, as one of the anonymous submitters who originally talked about the "alpha" and "beta" thing– it doesn't really matter, of course. You can use the terms however you want, especially since all version numbers are rather suspect these days.

Also, the alpha/beta/release candidate distinction makes more sense for a different development model, i.e. one which distributes physical media, has well-defined feature sets for a given version, tracks milestones, etc.

http://www.clueless.com/jargon3.0.0/beta.html

Jeff, Gary, Hannu: As for proportional fonts, I'm sorry to report that while it's on the to-do, it has a really low priority ATM (so don't expect this before 1.2).

Gary: I don't know what smart insert/delete is — is that the thing responsible for inserting/removing an extra space on cut'n'paste operations?

Jason: The PHP bundle should contain a grammar for Smarty.

Andrew, geekdreams, paladin: The new style system is a superset of the old system. Editing of themes is likely to be slightly better in 1.1b15, but the system is here to stay, and I leave it up to users to come up with nicer colors than those included by default. The All Hallow's Eve theme should also have been updated for 1.1b15 (so it better resembles the HTML/Ruby style of 1.1b5), though I'm still waiting for DHH to checkin the update.

Andrew: You mention stability as one of the concerns with using latest beta. I don't know if this is only a concern, or you actually do have stability problems. If it's the latter, please provide me with as much detail as possible.

geekdreams, Alexander: initial soft wrap setting was broken in 1.1b14. I have released this minor update to fix it.

As for setting the default value for file types, this is already possible, and might be what makes you think it has always been broken (it ships with soft wrap enabled for text files and disabled for source files). See this letter for more details. Scope specific overrides of various settings will be more apparent in the GUI in the future.

paladin: as for expecting this; having done TM for approximately 10 months now, I'm still surprised by the ratio between feedback related to visual and non-visual things :)

Roshambo: yes, the old icon had more personality, but was unfortunately disliked by a lot of users (and a lot of users submitted replacement icons). So the current was chosen from the pool of user contributions, and while it may appear more generic, it's still sufficiently different from other application icons for it to not be mixed up with a different application, and I think the rendering of it is very nice, plus it's a better fit with the Aqua icon guidelines.