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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Graduate Student,
Cognitive Neuroscience
UCLA Department of Psychology
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First thanks to everyone who replied to my previous question.
I'm noticing a very odd behavior when I try to delete whitespace
between two tags. Most (if not all) other text editors will select
just the whitespace when I double-click on the whitespace area.
However TextMate likes to also select the closing/opening bracket/
braces - which of course I don't want to delete.
So if I wanted to delete the space between <p>Hello </p>
I can't double-click on the whitespace between "Hello" and "</p>"
without TextMate also selecting the "</" in the closing "</p>" tag.
Another example is if I have a closing brace "}" that is indented too
much and I want to line it up with its opening brace, I can no longer
double-click on the whitespace to the left of the brace without the
brace also being selected. In fact I wasted 15 minutes or so trying
to figure out how I broke a PHP script before it dawned on me that
when I deleted the whitespace I also deleted a brace.
Is there any preference or setting that changes this odd behavior?
I'm assuming TextMate does this for a reason, but I'm scratching my
head as to how this editing mode would be useful.
thanks in advance!
brian
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 am using a TM Project because I need to set a few project-local
variables. Projects files, “.tmproj”s, are serialized to a single xml
file, and included is information about window settings (position,
size, drawer open?). For example, when you move the project window,
your VCS will mark it as changed. This is very annoying.
Xcode solves this problems my separating the “project” and the
project window settings, all contained inside a directory/
XcodeProject.xcodeproj/
project.pbxproj <----- The _real_ project file.
myusername.mode1 <---- other stuff.
myusername.pbxuser <---- more stuff.
-- Daniel
