TextMate November 2006

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by thomas Aylott

Ok, here's an idea. A back/forward history thing for textmate. Every time you change something in textmate, it logs where your cursor is. Then you can use a back and forward command to navigate between those places, even between files and projects. Would anyone but me find that useful? I have a few idea on how to implement this. Currently, the only thing that can automatically watch your changes is the web preview window. but you can use a pass-thru script in that window to do anything you want, triggered every time you change something in your document. the bad thing about that is that it would take over your webpreview panel, and you'd have to open a webpreview panel for every document that you want to catch the history for. The other option is to use a command that you manually trigger. This is lame because if you forgot to mark something then you'd lost that step. Another possible option. An HTML command window that stays open and continually triggers a shell script that logs your history. I don't think this can work right now (i haven't checked) because i don't think the TextMate.system javascript command grabs new variables every time it's triggered without reopening the document. But maybe we could convince Allan to implement something like TextMate.update_variables or something. Well, anyway. just thinking out loud. thomas Aylott — design42 — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg

18 years, 11 months

Set soft wrap, justify paragraph, and reformat the last line of paragraph

by Ulai Beekam

Hi, I have some text. I know I can use TextMate to do first Soft Wrap (and I set the colums to 80). Then, I select the whole text and do Reformat Paragraph and Justify. But after this, I don't want the justification to occur at the last line of a paragraph. Therefore, I manually select the last line of every paragraph and do Reformat Paragraph on those. Is there a way to automate this last process, that is do Reformat Paragraph on all last lines of all paragraphs? Also: How would I be able to do this without TextMate, i.e. in the command line? I'm interested in that because I would like to create a PHP script that does exactly this. Cheers, Ulai _________________________________________________________________ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/

18 years, 11 months

I know this has been done to death but...

by Andy Armstrong

I've got a project here with 16,500 files in it (75,000 if you count the subversion metadata). It's a Joomla 1.5 website with a bunch of content. I have three copies of the site in the project directory because of the way I'm merging changes from the latest Joomla SVN into my own source tree. Needless to say switching to and from TextMate causes a considerable delay - between 5 and 10 seconds on my G4 PowerBook. I like to flip back and forth between a web browser, terminal and TM pretty frequently - at times as much as maybe a few times a minute - so I'm spending a fair proportion of my time waiting for TM at the moment. Does anyone have any tips for speeding up TM's project scanning? Obviously I could rearrange my project to move some of the less frequently used files into another project - but I'd rather not do that if it's avoidable. It seems that TM only really needs to rescan the directories that are open in the project drawer and any open files - a full scan could be then be done lazily if at all. I get the impression it currently walks the whole directory tree - is that correct? If it's not doing that what's taking so long? -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

18 years, 11 months

create email from document

by Oliver Taylor

Allen, great job (as usual), I'm sure I'll be using this quite often. It would be great to add some of this to the language grammar so context-sensitive commands could be developed, and it could be pretty- ed up. I would imagine that the existing support for the headers; to, cc, bcc, reply to, and subject; would be adequate, although I am curious if there are others that people would want to use (or could use). I also wonder if it might be beneficial to quote the values, just to make sure nothing goes haywire. But I can see that not really being necessary. Something really interesting would be a way to lookup email addresses in the users' address book, though I have no idea if this is even possible. --oliver P.S. Yes, I used the command to compose this message. And it was great.

18 years, 11 months

Lookup current word in Dictionary.app

by Oliver Taylor

> Does this have any advantage over the system-provided combination > of control-command-D (which works with or without a selection). One thing I don't like about the pop-up is that it appears for whatever word your mouse is hovering over. This command can work with a selection or caret placement. Which means for keyboard junkies, they can skip one more trip to the mouse. The only other advantage is that you might prefer using the app to the pop-up.

18 years, 11 months

markdown_to_help.rb image problem + a suggestion

by Hans-Joerg Bibiko

Hi, in the list I mentioned the problem that if you want to put images in a help file written in markdown and using 'markdown_to_help.rb' for formatting you will loose the reference for these images. Allan mentioned to echo the base href in beforehand but then the internal links generated by 'markdown_to_help.rb' don't work. To solve this problem here my suggestion for an easy solution: In your markdown file you write e.g. ![Hypersearch dialog](images/getall.png) It is a relative path, so you can see the image with 'Show Web Preview' while writing your markdown In your command to display the help you can write: . "$TM_SUPPORT_PATH/lib/webpreview.sh" html_header "Hypersearch Bundle Help" "Hypersearch" "$TM_SUPPORT_PATH/lib/markdown_to_help.rb" "$TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT/help.markdown" | perl -npe 's/(.*?<img.*?src=")(.*?)(".*)/$1file:\/\/$ENV{"TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT"}\/$2$3/gi' html_footer What I'm done here is to pipe the output of 'markdown_to_help.rb' to a perl command which puts at the beginning of each relative path in src within a img tag the absolute path 'file:///$TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT/'. This perl command, of course, could be also implemented within 'markdown_to_help.rb' or as TM wide standalone command written in Ruby, Perl, or whatever (which I would prefer for speed). Cheers, Hans ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

18 years, 11 months

Newbie HTML question

by Scott Jenson

I was blown away by the HTML demo on the Textmate site, the ability to insert matching tags and intelligently tab through them seems like a great way to create HTML. The fact that I can surround a selection and edit BOTH start/end tags at the same time had my jaw dropping. However, this 'magic' behavior seems to vanish once I leave the vicinity of the tag. If I return (or edit an existing file, when I select a start tag, it doesn't auto edit the closing tag. I get how doing this automatically would create some problems. I'm just looking for a way to someone 'refocus' Textmate on the tag in question, matching the start end tags so when I reedit one, the other changes. Through the hundreds of commands in Textmate, i assume there is someway to do this. Any one have any ideas? Thanks, Scott

18 years, 11 months

GTDAlt error when processing inbox

by Alan Schmitt

I updated to the most recent version (6143) and when I try to process my inbox I get: /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/GTDAlt.tmbundle/Support/ bin/process_inbox.rb:27: undefined method `get_contexts' for GTD:Module (NoMethodError) Thanks, Alan -- Alan Schmitt <http://alan.petitepomme.net/> The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO

18 years, 11 months

plist and the Ruby date object

by Brett Terpstra

I'm working on a Backpack bundle and I've hit a stumbling block. I can't get a date object into a plist. I need to read it into a nib to set the date on a datepicker to the current date and time, but I can't get any of the functions in the plist library to recognize it. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'd post code, but I've tried so many things it's hard to begin to describe it... I could just be slow. Thanks, Brett

18 years, 11 months

Altered per-word movement (control-left/control-right versus option-left/option-right)

by Tom Armitage

Apologies if I'm being stupid, but since a recent auto-update, the behaviour of holding option and ctrl with the cursor keys has altered; I think this is related to an item I noticed in a changelog. As it stands, Textmate is now using ctrl-left and ctrl-right for per-word selection, as opposed to option-left/option-right (unlike every other OSX app I have). Similarly, double-clicking is now selecting a sentence, not a word. This is more than a mite annoying for most work I do, with both text and code. Is the behaviour I describe the default now, or has something odd happened on my install? If the former, how do I change it... and if the latter, how do I revert it? Apologies if this topic has been covered - I couldn't find it anywhere on the list. t.

18 years, 11 months

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TextMate November 2006