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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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?
Just posted the following to my blog (you can post feedback here or
on the blog post, if you have any):
I am planning to release 1.1 final next week. While I do get many
repeated requests, one of the issues that has been hard to overlook
lately is the lack of thorough coherent updated documentation.
<!--more-->
This has now changed after spending a few weeks writing more or less
full-time (so that's why there has been no nightly builds, although I
will likely put out one later today with a dozen minor items in the
change log).
Here is the first public draft of the [TextMate manual](http://
macromates.com/textmate/manual/).
Don't hesitate to post feedback as comments to this entry.
Currently the documentation is low on use-cases. I hope to
iteratively improve this over time, as I think that when people ask
for documentation they are in fact much more interested in how to
combine the features of TextMate to solve the task at hand, than the
core facts about how to move the caret and such.
This of course is quite a challenge, as the tasks and possibilities
are infinite. I myself regularly find new ways to use TextMate to
improve my workflow in ways I would not have thought of just a few
weeks earlier. Writing the documentation was no exception. One of the
cooler things I discovered was that I could add the command below as
a preferences item to the `entity.name.reference.markdown` scope to
have escape suggest completion candidates from my aggregated
reference list, when inside a Markdown reference (given as `[link
text][REFERENCE]`).
{ completionCommand = 'sed -n \
"s/^\[\($TM_CURRENT_WORD[^]]*\).*/\1/p" \
"$TM_DIRECTORY/markdown.references"';
disableDefaultCompletion = 1;
}
Should you somehow have missed my countless references to [Markdown]
(http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) then for the records
let me just state that the documentation was written in Markdown and
I absolutely love it!
Hello everyone,
I posted an applescript to make it easy to open the current finder window in
TextMate. Check it out here:
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/1037
I attached a screenshot of my finder window so you can see how nicely it can
be integrated into the finder.
Thought this might be useful to fellow TextMate users.
Cheerio,
Simon
Is this possible? If not, could you put it on the roadmap, Allan? :)
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Diretor de Desenvolvimento
ben(a)incomumdesign.com
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