TextMate March 2006

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by Oliver Taylor

I've released version 2 of my screenwriting bundle. release: http://ollieman.net/words/2006/03/ screenwriting_with_textmate_20.php bundle: http://ollieman.net/code/screenwriting/textmate/ --- I've tried to document it into the ground, which is the reason there are so many instructional videos. (I hope you finally understand what I'm doing, Haris) From the release: > It may seem oblique that the reason I learned the first bit of CSS > and XHTML I did was because late one night I was pissed off at > Final Draft for crashing for the 3rd time in a row. I was convinced > that there had to be a better way, that there had to be a way to > write screenplays that didn’t hurt. I don’t remember why this > propelled me to CSS, but it did. > > Well, I can now firmly say that I have found a way of writing > screenplays that doesn’t hurt. Never-mind that I had to build it > myself, never-mind that the process took me over a year. I’ve found > it. I'd like to take a second and thank all of you for helping me with this. It's an amazing thing that I've managed to build for myself (at least) an end-to-end solution for writing screenplays that I actually enjoy using. And no small part of that is due to the users of this list, you have made this a learning experience that has resulted in a useful tool. It's not just that TextMate is my new favorite app. It's that I feel as though Allan and the community around TextMate are genuinely working together to advance the quality of our collective writing environments; it's not just features and buttons, it's progress. And for that, I cannot thank you enough. -- oliver ollieman.net

18 years, 1 month

select paragraph and line

by Oliver Taylor

Just a quick question this time. Is there any practical difference between 'edit›select›paragraph' & 'edit›select›line'? I expected that 'select›paragraph' would not select the newline at the end of the string, leaving me free to delete a block of text and not remove the line itself from the document. This (expected) behavior would really be nice for some macros I'm working on. — oliver

18 years, 1 month

hint: documentation popup with ruby on rails development

by David Smiley

I've been using TextMate for Ruby on Rails development for over a month now. One thing I missed from some Java IDEs was documentation popup. With TextMate, you can hit control-H on a symbol and the Ruby bundle will use `ri` to try to find it. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. However, Ruby gems (such as Rails) are not processed for use by ri. To do that, you have to do it manually. I performed the following this task with just one command on the terminal: rdoc --ri-site /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/act*/lib The '*' will expand to all of the active... action... stuff that is for rails. Once this completes (which will take a few minutes), you can finally use control-H for rails related classes and methods and get quick access to documentation. Sweet! Oh, for some caveats on this technique, check out this URL: http://www.codecomments.com/archive327-2005-5-510886.html So basically this technique isn't perfect but it's better than before. ~ Dave Smiley

18 years, 1 month

Extremely slow pasting of text

by Michael Ströck

Hi all, I'm having problems with big files. TextMate, for me, is practically unuseable for many applications, and I'm not sure wether something is wrong, or I'm just witnessing limitations of the app itself. TextMate takes upwards of 3 minutes to paste moderately long pieces of text (30-70 KB) without line breaks. I use TextMate to edit Wikipedia entries, which are sometimes badly formated. Thirty thousand characters and not a newline in sight. When I copy texts like that and try to paste them into TextMate, it practically dies. Three times out of five, it won't recover. If it comes back, it's unbearably slow and practically unuseable. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue? I am on a G4 1,25GHz with 1 GB of RAM. Firefox's textfields can handle pasting and editing of 1MB snippets (I tried) without a hitch, EVEN in those JavaScript rich editor abominations, which probably aren't the most optimized pieces of code ever to parse text. And that's with all the other crap going on, like 10 tabs open and several exensions installed. What's going on? Michael Ströck

18 years, 1 month

Unable to create files from templates

by Sing

Hey all, I just started tasting TextMate today, great app. I was wondering is there any trick to get "creating files from templates" functional? I mean nothing happen when I click the "create" button. Here's some error from my console.log that I guess which is related to the problem I'm facing: 2006-03-07 18:26:01.742 TextMate[2305] Error laoding '/Applications/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Java.tmbundle/Templates/ addrbook.awk/info.plist' as Templates 2006-03-07 18:26:01.742 TextMate[2305] Error laoding '/Applications/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Java.tmbundle/Templates/ templatize.sh/info.plist' as Templates Tank you for your help. S

18 years, 1 month

Combining snippets and commands?

by Dr. Drang

When writing Markdown, I like to use reference-style links: [link text][id] . . <rest of text> . . [id]: http://www.site.com I've written a snippet that does some of what I want: [${1:description}][${2:id}]$0 [${2:id}]: ${3:href} but it puts the reference on the line below the link rather than at the bottom of the file. Although I haven't done it, I suspect that writing a command that takes the link label line and puts it at the bottom of the file wouldn't be too difficult. But before I give it a try, I'd like to know if it's possible to combine the snippet and the command into a single instruction that allows me to enter the 3 pieces of information, puts the link label at the bottom of the file, and leaves the caret back at the [id]. -- Dr. Drang

18 years, 1 month

"New Folder" shortcut broken?

by Benjamin Jackson

It seems that the CMD-CTL-G "New Folder" shortcut isn't working. Is anyone else having this problem, or is it just me? Cheers, Ben ___________________ Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

18 years, 1 month

Re: Latest Python Bundle?

by Owen Densmore

On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:43 AM, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com wrote: > From: Domenico Carbotta <domenico.carbotta(a)fastwebnet.it> > Date: March 5, 2006 2:39:50 PM MST > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Latest Python Bundle? > > Il giorno 05/mar/06, alle ore 21:39, Owen Densmore ha scritto: > >> Are these in the Subversion repository? I tried to download the >> entire bundle set from svn using the instructions on: >> http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/SubversionCheckout >> but it had an error. > > probably you should've set UTF-8 as the text encoding. if you've > already done it, paste the error message so that we can help you :) Domenico: Grazie mille per la aiuto! Vorrei tanto essere in Italia adesso. Well, naturally as soon as I try to re-create the error I got, everything worked fine! I just checked out all of revision 2825 with no error so likely everything is fine. > the rationale for not providing "for", "if" and such snippets is > that they're not _that_ useful in speeding code writing. I don't > use the "def" snippet either... :) > the "class" snippet is useful mainly because of the smart- > constructor feature. Thanks for the clarification .. I do agree python is so brief and clear that it doesn't need a lot of extra help. > ciao, > > Domenico -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org

18 years, 1 month

Persistent Includes?

by csilver_junk＠mac.com

Hello, I've been a lurking member of this list for some time, but this is my first attempt at posting. I've been trying out TextMate in demo mode and plan to buy it because it's nearly perfect for the way I work, but I have a couple questions I'm hoping somebody could clear up for me. I'm not a programmer, so please forgive me if my questions seem somewhat elementary. I do, however, use the Terminal quite often for shell commands, and I understand PHP well enough to write code for my own purposes. I prefer coding my web pages by hand, and I'm fluent in XHTML and CSS and competent in XSLT. I'm a bit anal about clean coding, usability, and accessibility (both for the end user and for me when writing my pages). For these reasons among others, I've been disappointed by virtually all of the website generation applications and/or scripts I've tried. It seems they require lots of convoluted configuration that just gets in my way. Besides, I'd rather just do it all myself with flat text files, using scripting just to generate the headers, footers, navigation, etc. I'm not necessarily concerned with TextMate's ability to do the many super-complicated things it obviously can do, as I probably won't use most of it myself. However, I'm wondering if it has a feature similar to the Persistent Includes available in BBEdit. I have examined the manual and read about how to use snippets, templates, commands, and the like, and I understand how these could be used to make my life easier. The problem is that I haven't figured out if there's a way to re-parse an entire project or certain files within a project after I've made changes that will affect the output. For instance, if I've used a script to output links to all the files contained in the directory (as a navigation menu of sorts) but later add more files to that same directory, I'd like to be able to re- generate the entire site so that those new files show up in the menu. Likewise, if I've generated prev/next links to other files in the same directory, I'd like to have them updated without having to manually type the new hyperlinks into each and every file of the site. I know I could use PHP or server-side includes or something similar (and I have written a simple php function to do just that), but I'd really like to generate static web pages because having dynamic pages online really isn't necessary for what I'm doing (also, I can upload the same files both to .Mac and to my virtual host, for example). If nothing resembling Persistent Includes is available in TextMate, another viable option would be to auto-generate the output of an entire project but save it to a new directory on my system using the same hierarchy of the original project. That way, I can simply re- generate it whenever I need to. In fact, that would probably be a simpler solution than the Persistent Includes idea, but of course you all probably know much more about how to efficiently accomplish this than I do. Also, if anyone could point me in the direction of a good streamlined tutorial on how to use shell scripts in an environment such as TextMate, perhaps I can figure it out on my own. The TextMate manual is nice, but something more tutorial-like would help a lot. Sorry for the long post - it actually started out longer with more details about my background and what I do, but I figured people may get annoyed, so I cut it. If I need to further clarify exactly what I need to accomplish, please ask, but I suspect most of you are quite familiar with BBEdit and know about how Persistent Includes work and how they differ from regular Includes. Thanks, Crystal

18 years, 1 month

MediaWiki bundle + Ruby library for interfacing w/ wiki pages

by Andrew Dupont

I've made a bit of progress in writing a MediaWiki bundle, the goal of which would be to allow one to use TextMate as an external editor on Wikipedia and other sites using the MediaWiki software. I've written an alpha version of a Ruby library to machine-read/screen- scrape wiki pages -- for example: page = new MediaWiki::Page('TextMate') page.contents.gsub!(/Textmate/, 'TextMate') page.save('Corrected capitalization') I've also built a few proof-of-concept TextMate commands -- fetch selection from Wikipedia, etc., and have done a very small amount of work on a MediaWiki syntax grammar (though the one described here <http://lists.macromates.com/pipermail/textmate/2006-January/ 007623.html> might be further along). In short, I'm trying to replicate as much as possible of the functionality of mwjed <http://www.djini.de/software/mwjed/>, a jEdit plugin with the same purpose. This would include being able to configure multiple wikis independently, log in, etc., so the bundle will have to keep track of a bit of configuration info. If anyone is interested in contributing to this project in any way, or has any ideas on how I can more elegantly keep track of a wiki "instance" across individual pages, please let me know. I'm decent enough in Ruby to get by (though my code could definitely benefit from another pair of eyes), but if you've got specific expertise in Objective-C I'd love your assistance in writing some dialogs like the ones in the Subversion bundle. The bundle is in no way ready for inclusion in the bundle repository, but I can share what I've got with anyone who's interested. I invite questions, comments, and general ridicule. Cheers, Andrew Dupont http://andrewdupont.net

18 years, 1 month

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TextMate March 2006