[TxMt] Suggestions from a newbie

[Brad Choate]

Some of these have been mentioned, so I'm repeating a bit here, but ...


On Aug 11, 2006, at 4:04 PM, William Uther wrote:

> Hi,
>   I'm just in the process of switching from BBedit...  TextMate is  
> a great combination of Mac UI and Unix power :).  There are a few  
> things I've found that could be improved:
>
>   i) Having all the commands in bundles can make it quite tricky to  
> find things.  Not sure how to improve this.  I almost want an  
> obvious 'search all commands' command.

That's Ctrl+Cmd+T -- or Bundles -> Select Bundle Item... (as James  
pointed out)


>     While browsing the list, I noticed someone else's feature  
> request for a 'what does this key combo do' feature.  I'd like to  
> second that.  And add a request for an 'open a window with a list  
> of all current key combos' feature.

Ctrl+Option+Cmd+K (Bundles -> TextMate -> Show Keyboard Shortcuts


>   ii) I'm used to having a shell open.  As I move around I might  
> want to either open files in TextMate from the shell, or do  
> something in the shell to a file that is open in TextMate.  This  
> leads to two strangenesses:
>       - If you use the 'mate' command in the shell to open a file,  
> then the file doesn't get added to the "Open Recent >" menu.  I  
> think it should (perhaps as an option to 'mate', or a preference).

mate -r <filename>

(Jeff already described how to make this the default behavior)


>       - If I already have a shell open, I want to drag the document  
> icon in the window title bar to the shell to get the path to the  
> document (as you can in the finder with folders).  Now, I can open  
> a new shell with in the same directory, and I could make a command  
> to copy the path to the current file.  I'd kinda like the drag-and- 
> drop OUT of textmate option though.  (N.B. you can do this with  
> icons in a project.  You just can't do it with an individual file's  
> icon.)

You can drag the document icon from the window title bar... but the  
file must be saved to do so (if you have unsaved changes, the file  
cannot be dragged-- this is consistent with other apps, not a  
TextMate limitation).


>   iii) While looking for a solution to the 'drag out of textmate'  
> problem, I searched the list and found that I could drag out of a  
> project.  But I already had the file I wanted to edit open.  I  
> didn't have a shell in that dir (so I couldn't 'mate .') and I  
> didn't have a Finder window in that dir any more.  I couldn't find  
> a way to 'make a new project with a currently open file'.  I'm sure  
> I could make a new command to do this pretty quickly, but it seems  
> like something that should already be there, somewhere.

Save the file; create a new project; drag the file's icon from the  
titlebar into the project drawer; close the original file. But yes, I  
can see how it would be nice to be able to do that in one step.

-Brad