TextMate February 2005

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121 discussions

by Fred B.

Just so you know: Today I noticed TM didn't send the file back to Fugu anymore on save. (It can be weird when you think you saved files when, in fact, you didn't!) After reinstalling TM, rebooting, repairing permission, etc., I remembered I had enabled "atomic save" earlier. This was the problem, everything back to normal when it's unchecked. I don't know if the problem is in Fugu or TM. Shouldn't TM falls back to normal writes? Anyway, here is a log entry in case it helps: ------------- 2005-02-09 03:51:15.255 TextMate[555] initWithOptions: { auxiliaryFileInfo = { customPath = "sftp://fatal@10.0.0.115/temp/test.txt"; fsref = <NSAppleEventDescriptor: fsrf($FF9C80000013A3280013A3270000000000000000000000000000000000000000… $) 2005-02-09 03:51:19.086 Fugu[528] coerceToDescriptorType typeFileURL failed. 2005-02-09 03:51:20.822 Fugu[528] Couldn't coerce descriptor to typeFSS -------------- I know, it's late here. Must sleep! ;) -- Fred

19 years, 2 months

"Find in Project..." problem with special characters & regular expressions

by Bryce Thornton

The "Find in Project..." feature has been acting oddly when searching for strings with "special" characters in them. I have the "Regular Expression" box unchecked and the "Ignore Case" box checked. I have a project with ~100 files in it. About 75 of those contain the variable $ROOT_DIR. When I do a "Find in Project..." and search for $ROOT_DIR I get three results back. I really can't figure out what is special about the three that are returned. Is the "$" causing a problem? I would think that if you are not using regular expressions that all special characters would be automatically escaped. That's my first problem. Here's the second: I then tried "*\$ROOT_DIR*" with the regular expression box checked just to see what would happen. I realize that this doesn't make much sense as a regular expression. I know next to nothing about them. TextMate proceeded to give me the spinning beach ball for about five minutes. My system became unresponsive. TextMate eventually bombed. I opened TextMate again and repeated the search. Same results. Should there be error checking on the regular expression before it is executed to prevent things like this? Bryce

19 years, 2 months

Re: [TxMt] TextMate friendly FTP clients

by Developer Relations

Hi all, I couldn't help but chime in here. As noted, Yummy FTP supports remote editing via SFTP and FTP, and supports TextMate directly using the ODB editor suite. It will also make a transfer completion sound of your choice. Yummy FTP also allows additional editors to be defined other than the standard TexMate/ BBEdit/etc. Additional editors can be selected by using the Edit With option, so this might be what you're looking for in order to edit with jEdit, for example. We've also recently implemented the ability to specify remote editors per file name extension, but that is only in the beta we're working on right now. This will allow you to just double- click a file and edit it with the remote editor you have previously chosen. Of course, Yummy FTP isn't free but $25 isn't too painful :-) Sorry for the advertisement. I hope the information is helpful. Best regards, Jason Jason Downing ---------------------------------- Yummy Software Software so good you could eat it. Yum! www.yummysoftware.com ----------------------------------

19 years, 2 months

Why is text dragging not possible?

by Bruno Bronosky

That is a basic Apple concept, like cmd+left/right to go to the beginning/end of a line. Try dragging an active selection in Mail.app, if you hold opt while dragging it copies instead of moves. My brain can't let go of the instinct to drag text. Is there a way to make it work? Thank you, --==<< R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y >>==--

19 years, 2 months

Atomic Saving / Saving Question

by Paul Kline

What is atomic saving? How can I tell TextMate to save as soon as it loses focus? Due to I compile some Xcode apps inside Xcode, and use textmate to do all my editing and I keep forgeting to hit Command-S. (unless someone has a more effient way) Thanks :) Paul

19 years, 2 months

"Smart" Typing

by James Edward Gray II

Hello. I'm a new TextMate user, still trying to get the hang of using an automation heavy editor. I've run into a few questions as I'm getting use to the program and even managed to answer most of them myself, with a little playing around. One is still tripping me up though, so I thought I would ask. I have Smart Typing turned on and am trying to figure out if I like it. Most of the time, it's fine, but there are times when I don't want the pair, like the apostrophes in this sentence. Is there any way to get it not the add the closing marker for a single keystroke? Thanks. James Edward Gray II

19 years, 2 months

Command Chooser?

by Brad Miller

Allan, Here's a suggestion that came to me this morning. How about applying the wonderful logic in the file chooser to commands and macros? I was thinking of it being very much like Quicksilver for TextMate commands. I love it that the number of Bundles for TextMate is growing so quickly! What I don't like is that there is very little structure to the allocation of keyboard shortcuts. Its very quickly becoming emacs-like in the number of option-command-control-foo key-combos one must remember. I know they are all there in the menu system, but I prefer to not use the mouse very much when I'm writing and programming. One thing I always like about emacs, was that I could type Meta-x and type in the the beginning of a command, hit space for auto-complete, maybe a couple more characters, and I would have the command I was looking for. I used this technique for a whole host of commands that I used fairly often, but not often enough to remember the keyboard shortcut. I think you could easily go one better by applying your matching algorithm to macros and commands. Another thing that I liked was that emacs was self-teaching in that it would often tell me the keystroke needed to activate the command I just typed, so that after seeing it a bunch of times I would just start to remember. Brad Brad Miller, PhD Assistant Professor Luther College http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller jabber: bnmnetp(a)jabber.org

19 years, 2 months

Re: [TxMt] Inline PDF

by Rob Walton

Woah, quick response! Thanks. I would like to be able to preview latex equations as I'm writing. I really like writing latex, but can't wrap my mind around all the brackets in latex equations. There is a service called "equation service". In the text editor, you highlight the text you would like previewed and call the equation service. It cuts the highlighted text into the clipboard, turns it into a pdf, and then copies this into the clipboard and pastes it into your document. The result is that you see a typset equation rather than a mess of latex code. When it creates the pdf, it stores the latex code you orignially typed in the pdf. This way, equation service can be recalled on the pdf preview, this time replacing it with the orignal latex code so you can edit it. Under emacs this functionality is provided by an addon called preview-latex which is brilliant ( http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net/ ). However, I'm fed up with emacs and would like to try a cocoa based editor, as they are way more easily applescripted. The webpage for equation service is http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/EquationService/ - Rob P.S. (I may have imagined PDF Replacement Services. The equation service home page talks of a program either supporing or not "text -> PDF services". I have looked on apples developer site and found no reference of this.)

19 years, 2 months

Feature Request: Open Folder via Command-O

by Torsten Becker

Hi Allan, I know, you probably have to do other things concerning TM development but I have one thing which I would like to see because it now very often annoyed me: Opening a Folder via the Open-Menu. It happens very often that I want so open several files at once but the only way to do this is to mark them all in the open-dialog via Command-A, but then I can't browse the sub-folders. So my request is that I can fire up the open-dialog via Command-O (like ATM) and then also can select folders and start a new project this way. -- Torsten Becker (novaa on freenode)

19 years, 2 months

Feature Request: Open Recent Files/Projects implementation idea

by Mats Persson

I know this is probably on Allan's To Do list, and was mentioned not too long ago by others, but I haven't found the actual implementation discussed anywhere. So here goes my 2 cent worth of ideas. I think the ideal implementation of this feature is just like the Apple implementation in the Apple Menu's - Recent Items. The applications (= projects) and the files (= TM single non-project files opened) are separated as sub-menus of the menu item. Nice, clean and easy to use. The settings for the number of items stored in each sub-menu should then be set in the Preferences window, something along the line of what is in System Preferences - Appearance -> Number of Recent Items: For the past month or so I've been working with 3 projects opened at all times. Then over the weekend I closed them down and looked through some new code from a friend. As a result, I now have to 'go hunting' for the .tmproj files through the Finder. I know, it doesn't stop me from working, but this is just some basic 'spit & polish' to correct a minor workflow problem in an otherwise fantastic app. Kind regards, Mats ---- "TextMate, coding with an incredible sense of joy and ease" - www.macromates.com -

19 years, 2 months

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TextMate February 2005