TextMate October 2004

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[TextMate] [Tip] Embed selection in tag, lookup PHP functions

by Allan Odgaard

James A. Baker asked me for a BBEdit feature where the selection is wrapped in a tag, which you pick from a list of tags. But then his stream of thoughts derived the following TextMate solution, which I think was very neat: Create this snippet, name it _wtag: <${2:tt}>$1</${2:tt}>$0 Then select Start Macro Recording and type: cmd-x, _wtag, tab, cmd-v, tab, stop recording, save it for later. Now you have a macro which wraps the current selection inside a tag pair (the default tag name is tt, but you can change it). Press tab again after having typed the name to leave the snippet. Another neat trick I saw on a blog (but unfortunately lost the reference) was a command configured to do: open http://php.net/$TM_CURRENT_WORD So simple, and yet so powerful (it looks up the word under the caret in the PHP reference documentation). It's really fantastic to see this end-user innovation, keep it up! :) Kind regards Allan

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] Unsubscribe from this list?

by Guan Yang

Has anyone successfully unsubscribed from this list? When I hit either the "password reminder" or "unsubscribe" button in the Mailman web interface, I don't get any email from the Mailman. But he's happy enough to deliver the list messages. Guan

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] Praise and Comments

by Rich Barton

Just thought I'd chime in with my experiences of using TM over the last couple of days. Firstly, may I heap lavish praise on the developer(s). The live-updating project drawer (despite its shortcomings, below) is fantastic, and the Esc autocomplete is nothing short of magic. How does it *always* seem to guess the right completion for a given start string out of many possibilities? Regardless, this has made coding a lot less laborious. The snippet and macro features are also great time savers. But enough of the praise, here's my comments and suggestions :-) * I rarely want to view the ASCII version of an image file. How about a preview of the image in the editor pane instead? * Whilst speed is generally not an issue, there is an annoying 2-4 second delay (i.e. spinning beach-ball) when switching to TM when I've got an (open) project located on an SMB share. * By default, TM requires a lot of keyboard mashing for relatively common commands. For instance, I see no reason why the Command + Option + Control + D for toggling the project drawer can't simply be Command + D (in fact, I've hacked this myself in IB and it works fine) * How about a split view (i.e. the ability to see different sections of the same document at once)? * TM doesn't seem to remember the window scroll position if you do the following: open a document (that scrolls), and scroll down without changing the insertion point. Switch to another document/tab. Switch back. The window scroll position is back to its original position, and is no longer at the section of text I was looking at. * When searching within a document for a string located "below the fold", the matching string barely creeps "above the fold", i.e. is bottom aligned relative to the window. This makes it harder to see the match in context. I prefer the behaviour (which I believe BBEdit exhibits) whereby the matching string is centred vertically in the window, making it easier to spot and put in context. * How about being able to create a "real" folder (as opposed to a group) in the project draw? * I would like the group name to be selected and editable immediately after its creation, à la "New Folder" in the Finder * The Shift Left/Shift Right commands exhibit weird behaviour. I expect them to work like Command + [ and Command + ] in BBEdit or SubEthaEdit, but they don't. (Sorry for the vagueness. It's easier for you to see it yourself than for me to describe how.) Overall, I like the direction TextMate is going in. Regards, Rich Barton

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] Cursor size

by Ollivier Robert

I found the single pixel cursor rather difficult to see with a black background (even though I've edited the bundle for Ruby now). I'd like to see an option to use a block cursor. Thanks, -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto(a)keltia.freenix.fr Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.5.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] Latex, python and TAB behaviour

by profprof＠mac.com

I have just downloaded textmate and I looks like a very promising editor. I hope to be able to use it soon! I would very much like to see an environment for both latex and python. Those two environments are those I am in most of the time. I am sure that I not alone. Also, to me the tab behaviour of Emacs (where you can press tab anywhere on a line to align the content of the line) is a big plus when programming. It helps structure back the code rapidly. This feature would be part of a more global automatic formatting for programs but at least it is almost essential. This being said, you are doing an excellent work! Congratulations and I look forward to your next version which might include these features.

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] Bundles List Update

by Ian Phillips

Hi All, Been a bit busy at work today, but the list is updated now. So far we have: C C/C++/Objective-C Java JavaScript Mono/C# (now updated with compile output support thanks to Jan Sabbe). OCaml PHP Smarty Python XML Have a nice day! Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include <std_disclaimer> | http://ianp.org #endif

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] Syntax coloring and "/"

by Jim Menard

When editing Ruby code, everything after the first "/" in code turns yellow. For example, in the code class Foo def bletch(num) @foo = num / 12 end end everything from the "/" to the end of the file is yellow. Is this a known issue? What can I do to fix it? Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm(a)io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm "...it uses Smalltalk, rather than modern-day kludges such as Java, which resembles a modern object-orientated environment in the way that a pub ashtray resembles a cigar store." -- Andrew Orlowski, "Forgotten language enables nonstop gadgets", The Reg

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] Love for Textmate, and some thoughts/observations

by Raena Armitage

Hey, Thanks for a really neat product. I'm still messing about with it, but I think it's a keeper. I've noticed some things, though -- Odd help behaviour: the tooltip that appears when you hover over the Commands textarea says that you can use the purple help icon to get a full list of TextMate's exported variables, but that just goes to the Commands reference page instead. There's a small link to the list of variables, sure, but maybe the list of variables belongs on that page too? (or it should link there as advertised, instead?) Also, why does selecting Help *from the Help menu,* while the commands window is open, mean that it goes to that page? I understand that context is cool, but I expect to find that choosing '(AppName) Help' from the Help menu would take me to the app's help index page. Second: the whole dealie about the preferences window has been discussed, it seems, but it's also something I miss. While there's nothing that really *has* to be in a preference window, it seems logical to me that per-document options ought to be kept well away from the permanent ones. Third, I'm not sure if it's my own font problems or not, but I've never noticed it any other place -- when I'm using any bitmap font the first character in a line has a larger gap between it and the next character. You can see this in action here: <http://www.raena.net/images/gappy.gif> Fourth, why is Page Up and Down moving the insertion point? Can one change that at all? And finally, I'm not really concerned with (s)ftp support myself since I prefer to use Transmit, but does anyone know how i can tell Transmit to make TextMate available in its list of external editors? Can that be done at all?

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] saving files that need auth doesn't seem to work

by Johan Sörensen

Hi, Are there any known issues with TM and saving files that needs authorization to view/edit? I opended /etc/hosts with sudo from the cmdline, and TM doesn't seem to want to save the changes, no error, it just remains unsaved. --johan -- Johan Sørensen Professional Futurist www.johansorensen.com

19 years, 7 months

[TextMate] Working with multiple screens

by Drew McLellan

I usually work with an additional monitor plugged into my Powerbook at home, but not at work. If I accidentally leave anything open on the external monitor before disconnecting everything, on restoring the affected application the window is pulled onto screen. That is to say, if at any time the desktop area is reduced, windows readjust their position so not to be lost. TextMate doesn't seem to be doing this. I connected up my external monitor this evening to find a window that had been 'lost' all day! drew.

19 years, 7 months

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TextMate October 2004