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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TextMate has a syntax element called "Embedded Source", which is used
for things like the lstlisting environment in LaTeX or JavaScript
code embedded in HTML. The default background color for this element
is a light blue, which is almost identical to the light blue used for
selected text. Because of the similarity, I always get confused and
think I've inadvertently selected some embedded source. I'm wondering
why there is such a similarity between these colors. Was it
deliberate (and if so, what was the reason?) or was this an oversight?
Trevor
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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Don Kalar
Graduate Student,
Cognitive Neuroscience
UCLA Department of Psychology
1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563
Los Angeles, CA
90095-1563
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I just discovered TextMate I am liking it a lot. I will mainly be
using it for LaTeX and I have it working nicely with TeXShop as my
previewer. With that said, I am writing a large textbook in which I
have created new definitions for \subsection and \subsubsection,
which are called \Subsection and \Subsubsection, respectively.
Unfortunately, the function pop-up menu does not show these as they
begin with a capital "s" rather than a lower-case "s". I have looked
in the symbol list for the LaTeX bundle and I see:
/* preferences */
{ showInSymbolList = 1;
symbolTransformation = '
s/(?<=\\|sub)sub/ /g; # replace all leading "sub" with
an em-space
s/^\\( *)section(?:\[[^]]*\])?\{(.+)\}/$1$2/; # then strip all
but em-space + name
';
}
I must confess that I don't know enough of what appears to be regular
expression syntax to make the bundle recognize my commands. Can
someone tell me what I need to change in the above definition to get
the behavior I desire?
Thank you,
-- Gary L. Gray
I often hear in this list how Command-/ comments/uncomments the
selection with the appropriate commenting characters, however,
anytime I use it it _always_ uses C-style comments (/*...*/).
I have an up to date /Library/Application Support/TextMate checked
out from Subversion and I've poked at ~/Library/Application Support/
TextMate and couldn't find anything there that would create this
behavior.
Is there anything I need to do to enable this smart comments. And if
not, how can I debug this?
Thanks,
-Oscar
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pgp fingerprint: BC64 2E7A CAEF 39E1 9544 80CA F7D5 784D FB46 16C1
Hi,
I like using key commands for scrolling / reading. That is, not just
moving one line up/down, more like continuous movement vertically.
Navigation -> Scroll -> Line Up/Down
Question,
Using this command (while holding down / key repeat), firing a
shortcut makes the top-menu blink. So, when using it for continuos
scrolling it feels a bit sluggish due to this.
Also, when I've scrolled say 1 1/2 page, how do I center the cursor
on the visible area!?
Why,
I'm used to this from bbedit where you have ctrl alt and command +
arrows for scrolling in different speeds. Say ctrl-down = one line,
ctrl-alt-down = three lines, etc. Then when you see that line you
wanna edit, I use command-shift-J for moving the cursor -> "Go to
center line".
In bb I don't think the shortcuts for this is available in the main
menu, which makes them run without the menu-blink for each key repeat.
best
/David
A month or two ago I started making a Coldfusion bundle and haven't
look at it since... and now I'm back doing some CF work again the
highlighting is starting to piss me off, so I thought I'd ask you
guys: how do I do a bundle pattern that matches nested comments?
In CFML you can have
<!---
<cfif something eq true>
<!--- A nested comment --->
</cfif>
--->
and the whole thing should be syntax coloured as a comment.
The basic pattern at the moment is:
{
name = 'comment.block.html';
begin = '<!---';
end = '--->';
}
any ideas how to get nesting working?
-- Tim
