TextMate August 2005

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79 discussions

Save files when focus is lost - to a temp file?

by Oli

Hi All, I'm really liking TM - it's taking a while to get my non-programmer's head around, but I'm learning lots in the process. I really like the "Save files when focus is lost" preference (Preferences > Advanced > Saving > Other), but if you haven't saved the file yet (still 'untitled') TextMate has a heart attack when swapping to another program. As an aside I really need to kill dock bouncing already. I think it'd be even better for the file (if not yet saved) to be automatically saved as a temp file, either in a similar way to using command-enter from other programs, or using the first few words of the file as filename in a TextMate folder in Documents. This temp file could then be automatically deleted when the user saves for the first time. just a thought you probably had already. keep up the great work! peace - oli

20 years

Retro ANSi 2

by thomas Aylott

Check it out. All new. All oldschool. Back to the heart of the medium. The only color that isn't a direct ANSi color is the background color on non-source pages (just cuz it looks keener ) this one should look pretty slick for javaScript, CSS & RUBY (as well as HTML, XML & ASP) I thrive on entertaining insults & opinions. Please cater to my sickness.

20 years

comment.line.number-sign.ruby != source.asp.embedded.html

by thomas Aylott

I have the following ASP.net code <tag attribute="<%# Users.PageSize %>" /> the scope of the #... part is coming up as comment.line.number- sign.ruby instead of source.asp.embedded.html I've tried messing with everything I can think of. I can't figure out how to keep it from defaulting to the ruby deal. any suggestions would be lovely.

20 years

Merging mine with yours

by Andreas Wahlin

Say I begin to edit stuff like furious in the bundle editor, and then a new version comes along with some new stuff, how do these two get merged, if at all? Same goes for themes. Seems a bit short, but I hope the question is clear. Andreas

20 years

Retro ANSi DOS color theme

by thomas Aylott

Howdy. I first got started in computers with a DOS pc. I was an artist for dial-up BBS boards before the internet was. I know most people are into Mac chic, but I've always had a fondness for my oldschool CiA agent_42 days. Check out http://www.sixteencolors.net/Artist/?Artist=agent_42 to see what the 'scene' was like back in 'the day'. This theme is a first release. I can't code without a good basic theme, but I need to make it better, especially for other languages. This theme has been tested with html, xhtml, XML (and friends), ASP, ASP.net, ruby on rails, javascript & CSS. I'm not too thrilled with how it looks for javascript & CSS, but i don't code in those (with textMate) too often. The theme rendering & code view does get a bit slowish with all the fancy stuff going on with transparency & background colors. If anyone can suggest ways to speed up the rendering that'd be swell. I have Quarts 2D extreme turned on (using quartz debug & force quitting to keep changes) for faster text-rendering & better anti- aliasing. I'm using proFont 9px anti-aliased. The bold only shows up with anti-aliasing off though. please check this out & share your reactions, good or bad. I know this is not for everyone, but I was just so psyched about the AWESOME theming & scope capabilities of textMate not to share.

20 years

Insert Closing Tag bug

by Michael Irwin

Recently I've noticed the keyboard shortcut for "Insert Closing Tag" from the Automation menu no longer works in 1.1b16. If I click the menu item the closing tag is inserted, but not if I type the shortcut Option-Cmd-. I haven't customized any Bundles, but I am using the latest Bundles via svn. Anybody else seeing this? Thanks, Michael Irwin

20 years

ASP.net & SQL bundle

by thomas Aylott

is anybody working on an ASP.net bundle? Specifically, VB.NET i've got some work-arounds to make the regular ASP bundle work for it, but there are still a few niggling problems. I'm just getting started with all this fancyness & don't really have much time to mess with stuff. I have a custom color theme done & i've made some snippets & commands. I'm addicted to macros. I work in an all windows office (we actually just got a macMini server for the 'blog') so I've got to deal with a lot of 'classic' ASP 3 & poorly written ASP.net code. In the mean time i've got this workaround to make serverside script tags work like <% ... %> tags. This takes advantage of the fact that the ASP language bundle incorrectly ignores the closing %> tag if preceded by a comment_this_line character "'" (what 'tard came up with the idea of using a quote mark as a comment_this_line character!?!?!1!). So, nobody fix that problem without also making an ASP.net bundle, thanks. <%'textmate fix for ASP.NET script tag' %> <script runat="server"> ... </script>  i know you're all thinking: "coding ASP.net on a mac, what are you a masochist?" ANSWER: It's better than the alternative. (IE: using a PC to code ASP.net) -------------------- SQL. Is there anyone working on an advanced version of the SQL language module? The current one is... not good. (isn't it nice to know that your efforts are being appreciated? :D)

20 years

Paren matching

by David Lee

Hi all. First up -- congrats to Alan. Textmate's continuing to improve faster than any other editor I know of, and is already unarguably one of the best. so , any chance we can have both pairs of (){}[]s better highlighted when the cursor is adjacent to one of a matching pair? it'd be nice to have theme elements for the bracket fg/bg colours. I think the short blink we have at the moment is far too little, and it makes more sense to me to have both characters highlighted. ------------ cheers, David

20 years

Emacs-like Toggle-behavior for cmd-T, Keyboard-driven tab reordering

by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

I appreciate cmd-T as a more flexible replacement for old-school keyboard buffer switchers like the traditional Emacs c-x b action. However, one of the most critical uses of c-x b, in my experience, is the ability to instantly toggle between the last 2 buffers in the current window/pane, which cmd-T (and the stationary ordering of the tabs, as compared to something like the stack ordering of the File History dropdown in XCode editor panes) cannot accomplish. I understand that certain special cases of toggling, like switching between matching, identically-named header and implementation files can be accomplished with special commands and that toggling can be achieved by manually reordering tabs in such a way that the desired 2 files are adjacent in the tab list, but this misses the deeper point that toggling between the last 2 files -- no matter how they were reached, what their file name relationship is, or where they fall in the tab list -- is one of the most central and frequently performed actions at least in my programming experience. (And it is, of course, all the more critical without split pane support ;). It seems to me, however, that this can be addressed quite simply and elegantly in the context of the current cmd-T system. All that would have to happen is that the first item in the list would always default to the last active tab when the window is first opened. Given that the list ordering is dynamic and adaptive, á la Quicksilver, it hardly seems that this very subtle reordering would present any sort of usability issue or confusion. Of course, how this most-recently-used item might be prioritized in the list after the user starts typing, if at all, is an open question, but one which need not even be answered a first version (the behavior can perfectly reasonably be just as it is now after the first search letter is typed). The general issue of fast toggling and navigation between files also brings up a small related thing I've been wanting to see for some time: I would love to have the ability to re-order tabs using the keyboard, alone -- just something akin to select next/previous tab, but which moved the current tab right/left. That's it for now. Back to the code. -jrk

20 years

Text autocomletion, BBAutoComplete

by Jim Woolum

Does anyone (maybe Jeroen van der Ham, or some other Applescript maven) know how to make BBAutoComplete ( http://c-command.com/bbautocomplete/ ) work with TextMate? (For broad spectrum text autocompletion.) Thanks!

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