I have just discovered TextMate, and am so far very happy with it,
but I think I just hit a glitch...
I am trying to edit a SQL load file that is about 5M, which shouldn't
be a problem. However, some of the lines are very long, as a complete
website contents is in a single line. I have no idea how many
characters are in this line, but I suspect about 2M worth.
Anyway, TextMate hangs while trying to work with this file. I can't
do much at all. Even a simple act of scrolling hangs. TextEdit does a
reasonably good job with the file though...
Actually, I don't think it is hanging, as it eventually responds
(about 30 seconds later), but it is so slow that it is completely
unusable. Is this a known problem? For me, it is weird files like
this that we need an editor like TextMate to be able to easily handle.
Thanks...
Jim Leask
Hi Allan and friends,
I have a source tree structure like this:
www/
site/
index.tcl, .adp
one.tcl, .adp
edit.tcl, .adp
item/
index.tcl, .adp
one.tcl, .adp
edit.tcl, .adp
The fact that files are named the same, but in different directories:
- Confuses both the Cmd-Opt-Up "Go to Header/Source" feature, which
will gladly find www/item/one.adp when I'm editing www/site/one.tcl. It
would be good if it would prefer the file in the current directory when
one exists. Otherwise, it's a great feature.
- Similarly, when using Cmd-T "Go to file", which I use almost
exclusively to open up new files now, it would be great if I could
write "itemonetcl" to get item/one.tcl, as opposed to site/one.tcl.
Currently, it doesn't take the path into account at all.
I can see some downsides to changing current behavior, too,
particularly with the Go to file feature.
But let me know what you think.
/Lars
I must be missing something really obvious here but I don't know how
to do this most basic thing:
(1) Drag a folder onto TM icon to open as project
(2) Open an HTML file called index.html
-- Now here's the part that throws me ---
(3) Make a new file called index2.html based on the original index.html
My first instinct is to right click on the file in the project drawer
and look for "duplicate file" or something similar - no such option
exists. So the next thing I try is opening the file and using "Save
as" to make the new file. This actually works but something weird
happens: In the drawer, it has the effect of *renaming* my original
file rather than adding a new one. If I switch to another
application and then back to TM, the original file reappears. Is
this expected behavior?
So what's the preferred method of creating a new file starting with a
copy of an existing one?
Thanks!
Sean
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Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how one might use
Textmate to interface with Matlab? I can have a command execute a given
.m file, but Matlab is a much heavier process to load than perl is from
the command line, so that becomes a very unattractive option.
Ideally I'd like to have Matlab running in a terminal (the java
interface is just too slow for me), and edit with Textmate in such a
way that commands could reach the already loaded session.
cheers,
-don
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Don Kalar
Graduate Student,
Cognitive Neuroscience
UCLA Department of Psychology
1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563
Los Angeles, CA
90095-1563
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PROBLEM:
The feature of all mac apps that I use the most is search.
Specifically find selection & find again. I use that feature to step
through every instance of that selection throughout my code. One
feature that I would love to see is a back button for selections.
Every time you do a search or scroll through your document & select
something, to get back to the last thing you were working on you have
to have set a bookmark & remember which bookmark you were last
looking at, or you have to manually find that place in your code again.
I work on other peoples old janky ASP 'classic' and quickly slapped
together ASP.NET code on a deadline. Anything to help me make quick
work of navigating through the (massive mountain of fetid spaghetti)
code the better.
SOLUTION:
If there was a way for the program to note every time you move the
selection more than 'a little bit' & log that information
sequentially, all you'd have to do to get back to what you were last
looking at would be to hit the back button. bam bam... done, no
thinking.
I know the system is extremely extensible, i'm sure there is some way
for me to 'roll my own' system for doing something similar.
(1) I'd need a command to get the current input location row & column
(2) log that information somewhere
(3) a command to get the last input location from 'wherever' and then
(4) a command to set the input location to 'that location'
??? I think i could figure all this out with applescript and bbedit,
but i'm still rather green when it comes to hard-core UNIX hacking.
Anyone have any suggestions? ??
IDEA: Maybe a quickie version of it would be to undo the last edit,
which would take me back to the last place I was, but then redo my
last action without moving the input location so I don't lost any
work. hmm...
Maybe there's another solution to my problems that i haven't
considered. What does everyone else do?
> Try: echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;
> tm-file:///path/to/file.html">'
That worked perfectly! My compilation time has now been cut down by at
least another second and I can preview my Flash movie in the browser
where it will actually be used.
+1 for Allan.
:D
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Ben Jackson
Diretor de Desenvolvimento
ben(a)incomumdesign.com
http://www.incomumdesign.com
Hey!
I just watched the 10 minute Ruby on Rails intro video
(http://rubyonrails.ams.cachefly.net/rails_setup.mov) where TextMate
used a pane for project files instead of the shelf. The pane looks
good, any chance it will return?
I realize this will make TextMate look a lot more like Xcode, but that
wouldn't bother me..
Perhaps something similar to the one in Mail2 (Tiger) .
hans petter.
Hi,
I suspect you're going to say 'no, it's a limitation of the way the
parsing is done', but would it be possible to collapse white space in
the display of symbols? See the attached example. The file itself
has these items being split by a newline and indentation...
Actually, on a related note, it would be really nice if the auto-
indentation would behave in the way I want it to for indented
function arguments. That is, if I hit enter inside an open bracket,
the next line should be indented to one beyond the open bracket on
the previous line. And when the corresponding closed bracket
happens, the indentation should revert to what it was before. As an
example:
tickets = self.sql.listTickets(ticket_id = id,
/* Caret should be placed at the
'/' of this comment. */
support_of = 123,
account = 'foo(a)acmewidgets.example')
/* Caret should be placed at the '/' of this comment. */
Is it possible to do this?
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Hi,
I don't suppose it would be possible for Textmate to make an attempt
to 'guess' the tab size (and whether the file is using hard/soft
tabs) when a file is opened? I often wind up editing other people's
code and, usually, they wind up using something other than 'soft
tabs: 2'. So I regularly have to fiddle with the tab size to make
things match up nicely.
ISTR a previous editor I've used, WingIDE[1], having this feature,
and it was really handy... And no, that's not an 'every other editor
does it' -- it's the only time I've seen that feature, but it was
really useful!
Oh, even better! I'm looking at the code for Typo just now, and it's
not even consistent throughout the code! In fact most of it is 'soft
tabs: 2', just views/articles/taglist.rhtml (the first one I happened
to want to edit) that's using hard tabs...
[1] http://www.wingware.com/
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