TextMate November 2004

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125 discussions

by M Spreij

Would it be possible to have tab-emulation only function at the start of a line? Extremely few (if any) of the documents I edit directly have a column layout (where tabs would be useful), I only really use them for indentation.. and when editing regular text it'd be nice to have backspace/delete only remove one space at the time. Regards, Martin

21 years

some bugs and requests for the project drawer

by kumar mcmillan

I know you are working heavily on the project drawer and may know this, but FYI ... Bug: TextMate does not consistently move files (on the hard disk) as they are moved in the project drawer. Reproduce: Set up a project with several existing files added from a directory, lets say ~/Sites/lib/php/report . they are not grouped in the project drawer, just loose. Then, in the project drawer there is a group called unit_tests, which exists on disk as ~/Sites/unit_tests. I have a file named settings.ini that is from the reports directory but not grouped anywhere in the project drawer. I like to alphabetize my list of files so I can easily find them later, which means dragging the files into place manually. in doing so, say I accidentally move settings.ini file into the group unit_tests. What happens is that TextMate physically moves settings.ini into ~/Sites/unit_tests. Back in the project drawer when I notice the mistake, I move it out of the unit_tests group but TextMate does not physically move the file out of ~/Sites/unit_tests back into ~/Sites/lib/php/reports, like it should. This confuses TextMate (and me) and when i repopen a project, the files are back in unit_tests. aside from that ... what about the ability to set a root directory for the project drawer so the project drawer can be an instance of the mac os x finder in list mode? Maybe you could have several roots if your project contained files scattered around the hard disk (which doesn't seem like a typical scenario to me). if nothing else, I would like to have the option to alphabetize the project drawer. This would just make dealing with large amounts of files easier. in any event the project drawer is still very useful in its current state. thanks, Kumar

21 years

embedding snippets; find in macros

by otheraccount＠verizon.net

Hi all, Unless I'm doing something terribly stupid, it seems it's impossible to use a snippet while in another snippet without losing the tab placeholders of the first... Is that right? That'd be sort of disappointing, especially since snippets are part of what makes TextMate elegant and customizable---would that be hard to fix? And a related automating-stuff point: Would it be possible for find operations performed by macros not to wipe out the previous find string? This too I think would immediately make lots of things possible that were only semi-possible before... (Alternatively, you could get the same functionality by allowing commands to select text and move the cursor without the mediation of the separate window, which would be even cooler---you could do stuff like selecting the current sentence or the current block---but seems like it might be a larger undertaking...) Marcin

21 years

[Macro] HTLM to LaTeX

by jose.campos+tm＠galacsys.com

Hi All, Using my fingers and RegEx, I hardly manage to convert simple HTML file to TeX file, something like : find : <h1>([^<]+)</h1> replace : \\section{$1} find : <h2>([^<]+)</h2> replace : \\subsection{$1} find : <ul> replace : \\begin{itemize} find : <blockquote>([^<]+)</blockquote> replace : \\begin{quotation}\n$1\n\\end{quotation} and so on... Has someone here written a macro that does that job? It would be very helpfull :) Thanks, -- Jo <W:00°04'37" ; N:47°15'36"> 1....'....12.....'....24.....'....36.....'....48.....'....60.....'....72

21 years

secret Help menu

by kumar mcmillan

wow, accidentally pressed the Help key while typing in TextMate and found a menu with the following options: Dictionary Search Google Search Thesaurus Search Wikipedia Search Yahoo Search Upon selecting an item, TextMate passes the current word under the cursor to the said service. very nice. I haven't seen this in other programs -- is this an OS X thing? Or better yet ... Is there a plist somewhere in TextMate to add to the list? k

21 years

Dragging CSS Link Into XHTML Doc Doesn't Close Tag

by Chris Messina

I noticed that when dragging a .css file into a transitional XHTML document, the link tag isn't properly closed. Just wondering if you could add doctype detection for drag-inserting links to files. Chris -- Do the evolution. Get Firefox! <http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=5&t=4>

21 years

project won't handle unknown file

by kumar mcmillan

wondering if this is a bug or intended somehow ... I opened a file, params.ini, to edit in TextMate. TextMate handled it fine besides no sytax highlighting since none has been defined presumably. But when I added it to a project with other PHP files, the file would not open in TextMate. For example, I clicked on it once from the project drawer and nothing would happen. if I double-clicked on it the file opened in SubEthaEdit (which I think was a decision made by the Finder). Shouldn't undefined text files still open in TextMate from the project drawer? Do I need to create a syntax plist as a workaround in the meantime? TextMate 1.01. thanks, kumar

21 years

snippets for MySQL; escaping "`"?

by Paul Nordstrom August

I'm about to embark on a lengthy and complex project (changing 30-odd FileMaker tables into MySQL). Usually I use the (excellent) CocoaMySQL for table creation but I thought I'd explore using snippets in TM... Basically it works like a charm (create table, add date field, add varchar, add int...), though I haven't tested it vs CocoaMySQL to see which will be faster (as CMS offers more tweaking of the field definitions). But I figure I can whack out the fields in TM then import the whole .sql file into CMS for the tweaking, adding indexes, etc. > CREATE TABLE textmate ( > textmate_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > tm_user varchar(50) default NULL, > user_no int(5) default NULL, > user_email varchar(50) default NULL, > entry_date date default NULL, > PRIMARY KEY (textmate_id) > ) ENGINE=InnoDB; The one thing I can't manage to sort out is including e.g. "`textmate_id`" since the "`" is used in the snippets to evoke a shell command... I tried escaping with "\`" but that didn't work. Am I missing something obvious? In any case, it's clear that snippets can revolutionize coding :) Wish I had more time to explore... embedding shell commands could be fantastic... Paul

21 years

[TextMate] Problem changing keyboard shortcuts with System Preferences

by Chris Brierley

As the help file suggests, I've tried changing some keyboard shortcuts with System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts. I'm trying to change the following items in the Text menu: Reformat Paragraph Reformat & Justify Unwrap Paragraph I can get Reformat & Justify to work but not Reformat Paragraph and Unwrap Paragraph. I suspect it's because both of those items change their name depending on wether text is selected. I.e., when text is selected they become Reformat Selection and Unwrap Selection. I've tried setting the same shortcut for both, e.g., Reformat Paragraph and Reformat Selection to try to cover both menu states, but it doesn't work and the System Preferences warns me of an error because of the duplicate shortcut key. Does anyone know how/if I can make that work? Or am I just out of luck because of the way the item changes names? Incidentally, I've worked around it by creating a local KeyBindings.dict, I'd just prefer to do it with the System Preferences so I don't have to always keep my KeyBindings.dict up-to-date between version changes. Thanks much for any ideas!

21 years

diff creation?

by David Casal

Hi Has anyone worked on creating diffs from textmate? d

21 years

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TextMate November 2004