TextMate December 2007

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114 discussions

by n_powell

Hello, I am new to TM, and I have a couple of questions regarding the Project Drawer. I did search google and the mailing list archives but I didn't see an answer to my question. When I am launching TM I would like it to open up with the Project Drawer already present. Also if it could open a directory (like ~/.projects) and all the sub directories that would be great as well. I am guessing there is a way to do this with TM since I can issue `mate ~/.projects` On the command line and that works. I have Quicksilver installed, so I bet I could create a trigger that would do what I want, but I would prefer to just have it work this way by default. TIA -- nathan nathan_at_nathanpowell_dot_org Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~ Edgar Bergen ------------------------------------

18 years, 1 month

GTDAlt users out there?

by infoarts＠gmail.com

Any other GTDAlt users out there? After doing a clean install of Leopard, I'm having trouble getting the GTDAlt bundle working again in TextMate. Am getting Ruby errors when I add dates to actions, and iCal syncing is using the incorrect date in iCal (one day earlier than set in my gdt files). It's a wonderful bundle, and I would love to keep it running smoothly. Any clues appreciated. Richard

18 years, 1 month

[REVIEW] JavaScript

by Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient

I just added three bundles to Review. JavaScript, MooTools & Prototype The major change is that I moved all the bracketed and whitespace scopes out of "prototype bracketed" into "javascript base". There are now two core Javascript languages. "Javascript" and "Javascript Basic" When opening a Javascript file, you'll want to use "Javascript". When you use a language like HTML, it'll automatically include "javascript basic" as embedded source where necessary. "Javascript basic" is mostly just a modified version of the current Javascript language. It should be pared down a bit more still. The MooTools bundle contains a completely new language syntax. It also includes the classic mootools language by Joe Maller as "MooTools 1.1" It's pretty basic at the moment, but I have plans for upgrading it and adding context sensitive codecompletion. The Review Prototype bundle is NOT upgraded for the latest version of prototype. All it is is a compatibility upgrade to support the new javascript core languages. Those few of you who care, please let me know what I need to do before I can replace the core bundles with these guys. —Thomas Aylott – subtleGradient—

18 years, 1 month

A bug(?) Bundle updates RSS feeds

by Takaaki Kato

Hi, I saw my NetNewsWire doesn't output from bundle updates RSS feeds. See the image. Something needs to be escaped here. Is this a bug in a script to make feeds? Or something is wrong in NetNewsWire? I don't have any plan to make _malicious_file name and commit the file to the repo :) Takaaki -- Takaaki Kato http://samuraicoder.net

18 years, 1 month

Saving file to hidden directory

by Phil Molyneux

While the File -> Open... dialogue has a button to show hidden files, the File -> Save seems to have no obvious way to save a file to a hidden directory. I was creating an environment.plist file to save in ~/.MacOSX --- my immediate work around was to save the file to the Desktop and use Finder to move the file to .MacOSX --- I have set Finder to show all files using either the defaults command or TinkerTool. A search of the mailing list indicates that Cmd-Shift-G opens a sub dialogue box to the File -> Save dialogue that allows you to type the name of the directory directly but that would seem hard to discover. Is there a preference in Textmate that modifies the File -> Save dialogue to show hidden files ? Phil Molyneux

18 years, 1 month

Taskmate bundle ready for review

by Sven Fuchs

Dear TextMate gods, dear everybody else :) I've been notified that my my Taskmate bundle has been added to the review directory: http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Review/Bundles/Taskmate.tmbundle Since the first announcement to this list quite some work has been done on this bundle. We've been able to track down some bugs, added some new features and tweaked everything according to the great feedback of both Michael Sheet and early adopting users. I've put together a list of the changes in the changelog: http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Review/Bundles/Taskmate.tmbundle/CH… Even at this early stage I'd like to say thank you to Michael for doing an amazing job as a review gatekeeper and Nigel Green, who attentively tested every single move I made, provided lots of feedback and additional code as well as even a complete help file. Now we are eagerly awaiting to get bashed down by you folks for any glitches and mistakes in order to make this bundle even better :) Thanks! PS: For information about what Taskmate does please refer to the bundled help file or the project page at http://www.artweb-design.de/projects/taskmate -- sven fuchs svenfuchs(a)artweb-design.de artweb design http://www.artweb-design.de grünberger 65 + 49 (0) 30 - 47 98 69 96 (phone) d-10245 berlin + 49 (0) 171 - 35 20 38 4 (mobile)

18 years, 1 month

Ruby 1.9

by Jeff LaMarche

Greetings all. Been using TextMate for quite some time, but never had a problem before now. Allan Odgaard suggested I post this to the list. I installed Ruby 1.9 this morning by doing a source install from the release tarball. I had to manually update the readline library and I also had to change my path so that /usr/local/lib is read before /usr/ lib because of the libreadline.dylib that is contained there. I can run Ruby 1.9 programs from the command line just fine, but if I try to use command-R to run them from inside TextMate, I get: ------------------ BEGIN ERROR MESSAGE ----------------- /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ scriptmate.rb:4:in `require': /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:40: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' (SyntaxError) when 1: lines.each { |line| block.call(line) } ^ /Applications/TextMate.app/ Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:41: syntax error, unexpected keyword_when, expecting keyword_end when 2: lines.each { |line| block.call(line, name) } ^ /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:47: syntax error, unexpected keyword_elsif, expecting keyword_end elsif sync? ^ /Applications/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:49: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' when 1: block.call(data) ^ /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:50: syntax error, unexpected keyword_when, expecting keyword_end when 2: block.call(data, name) ^ / Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb: 60: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' when 1: leftovers.each_pair { |name,... ^ /Applications/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:61: syntax error, unexpected keyword_when, expecting keyword_end when 2: leftovers.each_pair { |na... ^ /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:67: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end, expecting $end from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/scriptmate.rb:4:in `' from /Applications/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Ruby.tmbundle/Support/ RubyMate/run_script.rb:1:in `require' from /Applications/TextMate.app/ Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Ruby.tmbundle/Support/RubyMate/ run_script.rb:1:in `' ------------------ END ERROR MESSAGE ----------------- I also get errors running a shell script, but not quite the same, and it does then proceed to run the script after dumping the error message, unlike with the Ruby script: ------------------ BEGIN ERROR MESSAGE ----------------- (erb):29:in `concat': character encodings differ (ArgumentError) from (erb):29:in `html_head' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.0/erb.rb:743:in `eval' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.0/erb.rb:743:in `result' from / Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ web_preview.rb:116:in `html_head' from -:4:in `' Hello World Program exited with status 0. ------------------ END ERROR MESSAGE ----------------- As I said, I'm still able to run Ruby code from the command line, but it's obviously less convenient, so I was hoping somebody might have an idea what's going on. I'm still running Tiger and am on the latest version of TextMate (Version 1.5.7 (1436)). Any thoughts, information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jeff LaMarche

18 years, 1 month

PHP docblock folding

by REBELinBLUE

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't seem to be able to fold PHP docblocks when they are like /** * */ even though the top fold arrow is shown (but the bottom isn't) only when they are /** * */ however the code completion features such as doc<tab> and /**<tab> generate the first block Does anyone know how to fix it so that the first type of docblock folds correctly? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PHP-docblock-folding-tp14475232p14475232.html Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

18 years, 1 month

A fix for Move Selection Line Up/Down and suggestions for TextMate

by Сергей Яковлев

[REPOSTING BECAUSE OF BAD FORMATTING] Hi! A well-known problem with Move Selection Line Up/Down commands (Control-Command-Up/Down) is that if you use them without selection (which means "move current line"), the cursor ends up in the wrong place. This has been bugging me and my friends for quite some time, so I wrote a fix. It's two macros overriding default key equivalents, which you can find attached to the bug description at http://macromates.com/ticket/show?ticket_id=58C52785 . Please tell if this works for you. Also, is it possible to put this fix into some standard TextMate bundle like Text.tmbundle, so that all TextMate users enjoy it? (Until it is fixed in the new engine of TextMate 2.) What is the best way to do it? This is my first experience in TextMate programming, and several times I've been stuck in various dead-ends. What follows is a somewhat long description of how I approached the problem along with some suggestions on making TextMate easier to program. Most people would like to skip this. So, my first (rather silly) attempt was a huge Ruby program which replicated functionality of Move Selection Line Up/Down and depended on my assumption that the cursor is always at the end of selection (potentially allowing me to calculate all the necessary offsets in the file). Well, it turned out that my assumption was simply not true, as the cursor can be anywhere inside the selection, depending on how you've selected the text. Suggestion 1. It would be useful if TextMate had variables like $TM_SELECTION_START and $TM_SELECTION_END which would return the corresponding offsets in the file (or the cursor offset, if nothing is selected). On a second attempt, I decided that I should instead go with the built-in commands, simply correcting the cursor position for the special case when nothing is selected. So we remember current cursor position, call Move Selection Line Up/Down, and move the cursor back to remembered position if nothing is selected. There are two problems here. First, you can only call built-in commands from macros, and it is not possible to remember values through the steps of a macro. Second, there is no direct way to reposition the cursor. One indirect way to achieve this is to insert a snippet with a $0 variable. However, to move the cursor to arbitrary position in this fashion, we need an output option like "Replace Document as Snippet", which is not available. Because of these two problems, I decided to use TMTOOLS plugin, which has "call macro" (for calling arbitrary macros and built-in commands from commands) and "set caretTo" (for setting the cursor position). I got a working solution, but it had a delay of 0.5 to 1 s, which was too slow to be useful. Suggestion 2. Add a way to set "global" environment variables programmatically (from commands). These "global" variables should be available to all subsequently called commands (and other bundle items) until explicitly unset. Suggestion 3. Replace output options "Insert as Text" and "Insert as Snippet" with just one option, "Insert", and add a checkbox "as Snippet" to the right. This would add such useful options as "Replace Selected Text as Snippet", "Replace Document as Snippet" and "Create New Document as Snippet" without making the list of options too long. So, on a third (and final) attempt, I dropped TMTOOLS and returned to the idea of a macro. Inspired by Duane Johnson's solution for multiple insertion points, I decided to use a special symbol (mark) to "remember" the initial position of the cursor. So we insert the mark at the cursor (if nothing is selected), call Move Selection Line Up/Down, and replace the mark with empty string (if nothing is selected), which moves the cursor there as a side-effect. The problem here is that Replace command always replaces current selection with replace buffer, even if it doesn't match the find buffer, which ruins the case when something has already been selected in the beginning. Replace All also ruins current selection, moving the cursor to the beginning of the file even if it has not found any matches. Fortunately, the Find Next/Previous command will only change current selection if the match has been found. So that's what we use. If there is a mark in the text, it will get selected, otherwise, the selection won't change. Finally, the selection is replaced with an empty string if what's selected is a mark. The wrong cursor position after Move Selection Line Up/Down is always further in text than the right position (actually, it's on the next line), so we use Find Previous command to perform the search. Because of this little detail, the solution is actually pretty fast. Suggestion 4. Replace All should not alter current selection if no matches are found. The only remaining question is what symbol to use as a mark. I decided to use √ (221A, SQUARE ROOT character, which you can type with Option-V), but I'm not sure this is the best choice. Maybe it's better to use some character from Private Use Area (E000--F8FF)? Best regards, Sergei Yakovlev

18 years, 1 month

PHPDoc scope syntax coloring?

by Clark Endrizzi

Hi all, I am pretty new to textmate and would like to know if it's possible to change the color of PHPdoc comments from normal comments. I've noticed since using a lot of PHPDoc stuff in my code that it looks more confusing than ever. Being able to change the color would help in making things more readable. I noticed there was a thread in 2006 that discussed this but it did not help me. Also, I tried setting the scope of "comment.documentation" in hopes that it my be the correct scope with no luck (it doesn't seem to match the scope or something because nothing changes even after restarting textmate). Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks, Clark Endrizzi

18 years, 1 month

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TextMate December 2007