All I want is smart line wraps.

What do you mean by "smart line wraps?" I presume you're meaning something other than smart indentation, which TextMate by and large does pretty well. I confess that one of the main things that keeps me coming back to TextMate after trying each new release of BBEdit is that TextMate gets the concept of "smart indent," and BBEdit doesn't. (Actually, I think Bare Bones Software deliberately spurns notions like context-aware automatic indentation and intelligent backspacing with soft tabs, which is in some ways even more irksome. I've seen messages from them a few years ago on mailing lists in which they argue against that because you don't know with absolute 100% surety that when a user backspaces over a string of spaces that apparently represents a tab she wants you to delete all the spaces as if it was a tab. But dudes, c'mon: every other editor I use figures this out. This is a solved problem. Seriously.)

For me, the Big Missing Feature is window splits. I'd be happy with just the ability to look at different parts of the same file in the same window rather than having to open the same file in two different windows.

Oh. And chunked undos the way every other OS X program does it. I remember the arguments from Allan Odgaard against that years ago which were pretty much the same as BBEdit's argument against intelligently backspacing over soft tabs, but again, the existence of every other text editor on the Mac for the last quarter-century suggests this has a conventional solution. Really. :)

All I want is smart line wraps. That's all I want, and I would be so happy.

Best regards.

I guess we all would have been glad to see an evolutionary version 2.0 with improvements around the core editor (which even now remains unsurpassed by any competitor).

Now, after all the time passed, it appears no longer possible to just release such an evolutionary update. Everybody (including foremost Allan himself) now expects to see way more than that delivered.

From the outside I must assume by now, it's simply the fear to disappoint that keeps Allan tight-lipped. As long as he doesn't talk about it, it's up to everybody's fantasy what TM2 may look like.

It's a paradox in which he goes like: given enough time I'll compensate for the time passed with something even greater!

(Full disclosure: I do suffer from this myself, when I'm procrastinating …)

Tobias

I've tried to just take the "pretend it's not happening and be surprised when it does" approach.

The lack of info is really bothersome if you think about it too much – at least for me.

I don't wanna start a flame war. He doesn't have to give us anything. And I'm not saying he's a bad person. I just get giddy and excited waiting for TM2… haha… so hungry for TM2

I'm hungry for any updates you're will to share. I don't need War and Peace, any fresh information will do.

I don't like that out on an (almost) unrelated post, but since the comments are turned off on the most relevant recent post this is the best place I could think of.

Someone started a poll at the wiki about this which might answer your question.