> It's a great idea. Something like this would be perfect for remote
> pairing. We currently do that using screen and vim, but that in itself
> requires the right software installed etc. I can imagine using this
> instead as it matures. Is that the main drive behind producing this?

> Two things I found straight away:
> 1. editing html - enter a single quote and the colour markup get's
> confused (I assume it's not meant to do that...)

> Using Bespin on FF3 on a MacBook Pro, and for now everything works
> really smooth.
> I noticed one bug - I wasn't able to select the last line of text in a
> file (function foo(){} in sample.js
>  for example) directly with the mouse.

> I had some thought about collaboration -

> Think big - What if each project automatically becomes a GIT
> repository, and every collaborator that joins it becomes a GIT branch
> of this project? this, on top of all the cool future collaboration
> features will make this the first IDE that has distributed versioning
> + collaboration + online editing. I will definitely use it.

> Besides that, the UI has a great distance to go, is there a place to
> see future UI ideas?
> One thing I noticed right away is the lack of auto indentation, an
> important starting point for any IDE.
> I also noticed that in the homepage the "dashboard" link for
> registered users is not visible enough. I personally tried to register
> again, twice, until i noticed that there is a link at the top.
> File preview in the files pane is also something I was expecting.

> Oh, and I hate brown... I think it's ugly in Ubuntu (which I use
> regularly) and it's not so appealing here too.

> Great initiative all in all, I can't wait to see what this thing will
> become eventually.

> Tom B.