TextMate July 2005

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57 discussions

REQ: default projectname <FOLDERNAME>.tmproj

by Tom Lazar

hi there, i have been creating projects left and right lately and realised, that 'untitled' is not the best default name (i.e. *never* right) as opposed to say the name of the toplevel folder that the project consists of (i.e. *sometimes* right) just my $0.02, tom -- Tom Lazar http://tomster.org

19 years, 5 months

Spell Checker - Thank you

by Eric Curtis

I just had to write out a quick thank you for the way in which you implemented the spell checker. I can finally get the best of both worlds - hand coding with check as I type spelling. Not only that, when I opened up a website I had done a while ago I easily found a couple of mistakes. In one case it even showed me a coding mistake &amp instead of & As someone that does not know regex or other advanced ways of customizing TM this new out-of-the-box-feature is a delight! Thanks Eric C

19 years, 5 months

Two things I noticed this evening

by Matt Mower

Hi folks, I noticed a couple of odd things this evening while working in TxMt. 1) In the bundle editor, when I add a new bundle (and again when I added a new snippet to that bundle) the current select went back to the top of the tree (C in my case) and looked a bit odd into the bargain. 2) When I have more tabs than will fit in the tab bar (so that you get the >>), and am looking at a file which is not in the tab bar, there is no way to get access to that files tab any more. My apologies if these are known issues, I did have a quick look for issue tracking in the wiki but couldn't see it. Regards, Matt (who is learning a little more about TxMt every day) -- Matt Mower :: http://matt.blogs.it/

19 years, 5 months

A Newbie Introduction (nursing student)

by Jeff Schneiter

Hello there, I downloaded the trial version of TextMate 3 days ago and payed for it yesterday, am quite happy with what I have seen so far. One of the big selling points for me is that there is no toolbar! In the past I used Mellel and chose compact view to turn off the toolbar; I prefer the floating pallet. Toolbars are just way too distracting on the eyes, especially MS Word (a way too busy toolbar). So as a nursing student (RN program in Seattle) I will start using TextMate and LaTeX to write my papers. One of my prereqs was English 102 in which I had to write a 20 page paper with over 20 references, 4 graphics, using MLA citations. I used Mellel without any type of bibliography software, and Mellel worked like a champ, quite good at setting styles; but I never worked with TOC or sections. I did have to spend extra time manipulating the text to eliminate widows/orphans and other layout issues. During the 2nd quarter of the program I had to write a 7 page paper using APA citations. For that one I used Apple's Pages and rolled my own references again. But first I used CopyWrite to write the paper before importing into Pages. I did not use fullscreen mode - don't like it. CopyWrite was really nice for organizing that paper, and plan on using it again. This summer I have no classes, so I have spent time learning LaTeX and have converted the 7 page paper to LaTeX, using BibDesk and the apacite package. That was using TexShop. To make TextMate a little like TexShop I installed Schubert's PDF plugin, changed the pdflatex command to "Command-T" and created a bibtex command set to "Command- B". I copied latexErrWarnHtml.py into the local Latex.tmbundle (are there other mods I need to make?). So I think I am set for next quarter's 15 page paper (on the cardiac and respiratory systems), and for the Masters program (whenever that may be). Thanks for an excellent program for editing LaTeX. Cheers, Jeff

19 years, 5 months

Feature idea: split window for output

by Chris Jenkins

Ive been thinking about some of the features that Eclipse has of late and it strikes me that one of its strengths is the way it manages multiple panes within a single window, so I was wondering whether it would be possible to add a new type of window for commands to output into, this is the idea: instead of opening a new window, open the window embedded within the current editing window, sort of like Omniweb does with its site preferences, the window splits horizontally with the site above and the prefs below. This would be great for commands that check syntax as it would avoid obscuring the editing window whilst sill allowing access to the output so that it could be clicked on etc. What does everyone else think? Allan, do you think this would be a good idea? Chris ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

19 years, 5 months

Project drawer holding position through filesystem update

by Robert M.Zigweid

I'm not sure if this is a known issue or not, but it would be nice if it were fixed. Currently when the project drawer updates, it moves back to the top of the drawer rather than staying wherever it had previously been put. On large projects this gets pretty annoying. Using Command-T instead helps a lot, but I still do use the drawer for other things. I know that redoing the drawer is something on the todo list, and am wondering if this is part of it? Also if that's still a ways off, would it be a quick fix in the meantime to remedy this issue? If it's much work, I wouldn't consider it worth it. If it's a bitflip..maybe I would ;) Thanks. -- Robert M. Zigweid http://robert.zigweid.net rzigweid(a)zigweid.net

19 years, 5 months

Theme Trouble: C, Bold

by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

I haven't futzed with the new themes too much until recently -- I just found some decent colors and ran. However, as I get back to C from a bunch of Python and other work, I noticed that the new themes generally seem to lack much definition of anything in C/C++. It turns out the issue is twofold: First, of course, the classic problem of distinguishing many different kinds of elements in a simple C/C++ parser. C parsers aren't easy or fun to write, and so the current language definitions, perhaps not surprisingly, don't seem to detect declaration.function, variable, entity.class, declaration.name.class, etc. However, somewhat more vexing was the fact that some themes (Pastels on Dark) seemed to have substantially less styling than others in C. Looking further into the theme definitions, however, revealed that Pastels on Dark, in particular, was designed to rely on bold text just as much as color, and I wasn't seeing it. Switching fonts to Courier [New] revealed the bold face elements, but it seems odd that my font of choice -- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, which has a perfectly good Bold which shows up in the font selection dialog, and which renders fine as the whole-document default font if set to bold -- didn't show up as bold in the elements styled to be bold-face. I've never done any development against Apple's Font APIs, but I'd guess there's some bug which is preventing the Bold variant from being detected in the Bitstream font. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the default appears as BitstreamVeraSansMono–Roman (meaning that it appears that the default is set to a specific variant, rather than to the base font, since Roman stands in for Regular in the Bitstream Vera font packages)? I'd love to see this fixed. And is there any news on the C/C++ language definition front? Has anyone tried to add more sensitive language definitions with more detailed elements, like those I mentioned? It seems this sort of task would be made much easier by the ability to define and use a symbol table from within the language definition grammars (since tokens in C-like languages generally can't be re-used, just detecting the type of their declaration should be enough to style every subsequent element with the same name in a given file), but perhaps this is too much to ask of the already freshly-rewritten language parser engine. I'd be glad to work on it, one way or another, as long as no one else is already doing so. -jrk

19 years, 5 months

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19 years, 5 months

Kernel Panics on Tiger

by Brian Dote

Anyone getting kernel panics on Tiger? I'm running 10.4.2 and I can consistently crash the machine with TextMate, on both my PowerBook and G5. Last night I had another one which caused my OS to not reboot, and I had to re-install Tiger. I see that only 10.3 is supported but I liked the tool so much that I tried it on Tiger. Thanks! -dP

19 years, 5 months

Restore open files on launch?

by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

What ever happened to the option to restore open files/projects whenever TextMate is relaunched? I used to appreciate this and didn't quite notice when exactly it disappeared (or if it just got switched off somewhere in my config and I stupidly can't find it). Thanks. -jrk

19 years, 5 months

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