[TxMt] Re: re membering files in projects

rralian bob.ralian at gmail.com
Fri Sep 16 16:34:07 UTC 2011


Thank you so much. That was incredibly helpful and solves my issue exactly. I
hadn't found this level of detail in the documentation... maybe it was
staring me the face (that happens). But your instructions were
super-helpful. Thanks!



drukepple wrote:
> 
> Sounds to me like you have a folder reference in your project (possibly
> you dragged the folder right onto the TM icon and created the project that
> way).  This is normal behavior for folder references, since they are
> simply an alternate view into the filesystem.  That is, you have your
> project folder, and TM has a reference to that, and any children of that
> folder are displayed based wholly on whether or not they exist on the
> filesystem, or if possibly they match the name pattern for hidden files. 
> In your case, you may be deleting the files from the project, but since
> all that is really saved with the project file is the top folder
> reference, those files will reappear next time as long as they exist on
> the filesystem.
> 
> Don't worry, you have a few options.
> 
> If you work primarily in just a few sub-folders of the project, you can
> drag just those folders into TM, and you'll get folder references for
> those folders.
> 
> If you really need to pick and choose your files, you can create a new
> project, then drag the files you need into the project drawer.  If you
> would like to still organize them into folders, you can create groups in
> the project that act like folders, but are merely for the organization of
> your project.  You can tell the difference between folder references and
> groups by their color: folders are blue, groups are yellow.
> 
> To make a group, right click in the drawer, in an empty space, and you
> should see "New Group" in the menu.  If you right click on a file or
> folder, you'll see "New Folder" instead, so click in an empty space.  It
> might be a bit tedious to get the project set up, but you should then be
> able to save the project and not have the issues you are currently having.
> 
> Hope that helps.  Welcome to the world of TextMate!  You'll like it here. 
> I find you need to spend at least a month with it (as in, 40 hours a week
> of coding) before you'll really start to enjoy it, and then another 2-6
> months with it before you really start to understand the power and
> flexibility of the bundle system, at which point you become inseparably
> joined to TM.  So, get past these initial road bumps, and then you'll be
> in love.
> 
> +dru
> 
> On Sep 12, 2011, at 9:07 AM, rralian wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I had to delete and re-post this because I wasn't subscribed to the list
>> when
>> I originally posted this. Sorry for any confusion.
>> 
>> ***
>> 
>> Hey, I'm new to textmate (neatbeans borked itself on me), and am hoping
>> someone can help me. I'm working on a very large codebase, but only a
>> small
>> portion of it is relevant to my project. So I have opened the root folder
>> of
>> the codebase, and then highlighted files I *don't* need and then used
>> right-click->"Remove Selected Files"->"Delete References". By doing this,
>> I
>> can limit the list of files to only the ones relevant to me, making it a
>> ton
>> easier to navigate from file to file. 
>> 
>> The problem is, even if I use the File->"Save Project" command, this
>> filtering of files seems to be temporary. The next time I open that
>> project,
>> all of the files I filtered out are visible again in the file-view. I
>> have
>> the ProjectPlus plugin installed. 
>> 
>> Is this expected behavior? Or is there a setting I'm missing or different
>> workflow I should follow in order to get textmate to remember what should
>> be
>> visible in my project? 
>> 
>> Thanks!
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