TextMate December 2007

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by Dr. Drang

I apologize for being off-topic, but I think there's more expertise on this list than I'll find elsewhere. I'm thinking about moving my blog from Movable Type 3.2 to WordPress. As a test, I've set up a local WP installation and imported my old posts--all of which are written in Markdown. They look awful, primarily because the blocks of source code in many of my posts are not being imported properly. Here is what I've done: 1. Exported the MT 3.2 posts using MT's builtin export command. 2. Installed WP and the PHP-MarkdownExtra plugin. Activated the plugin. 3. Imported into WP the text file that came out of the MT export process. The biggest problem seems to be that WP isn't recognizing the Markdown formatting of the exported posts. What should be enclosed by <pre><code>...</code></pre> are enclosed by simple paragraph tags instead. Has anyone here experienced and solved this problem? -- Dr. Drang

17 years, 11 months

[XML] block folding bug

by Sergei Yakovlev

Hi! In XML bundle, the block doesn't fold properly if the closing tag is not on a separate line. Example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <document> <page>This tag block doesn't fold properly. It folds as if '/document' tag closes it. The closing tag is on the same line.</page> <page>This tag block folds properly. The closing tag is on a separate line. </page> </document> Cheers, Sergei Yakovlev

17 years, 11 months

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

by Сергей Яковлев

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

17 years, 11 months

Subversion bundle no longer uploading to repository for commits

by Daryl Manning

This is a strange one. The other day my Subversion commits have suddenly stopped working in terms of uploading to the repository. I ctrl-shift-A, use the commit and get the window for commiting the files I've highlighted and the -m message window. Enter a message... All good. When I hit Commit however, I get the Subversion Commit - "Transmitting File data" window and the barber pole but the window never comes back with either a dialogue box for the password for the user or anything at all. I end up having to quite Textmate in order to kill it and then doing a command line svn cleanup on the files that I was trying to upload. Handling svn through the command line with svn ci file.rhtml -m "blah de blah" works fine however. Does anyone have any idea of what may be causing this and how to correct it ? I've gotten so used to the svn budle it's really cramping my style now... thanks ! Daryl. PS> OSX 10.4.11, Textmate Version 1.5.7 (1436), svn, version 1.4.5 (r25188)

17 years, 11 months

Bundles, stdin and encoding

by Álex Bueno

Hi, I've been trying to make a TM command to convert text encodings (with a nice little tm_dialog that took a while to figure out but now works very well). But for some reason, it won't read the file correctly using stdin. So that this works: iconv -f $ENC -t UTF8 "$TM_FILEPATH" But this does not (nor do other variations on the theme using stdin): iconv -f $ENC -t UTF8 < /dev/stdin TM seems to do something to the text to change its encoding, so that iconv cannot convert properly. Even stranger than that, some encodings trigger this error: /usr/bin/iconv: conversion from "SHIFT_JISX0213" unsupported /usr/bin/iconv: try '/usr/bin/iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings Does anyone have an idea about what's going on here? Thanks, Alex

17 years, 11 months

contents of your Textmate system library dir ?

by Artie Ziff

I'm wondering if the contents of my "/Library/Application Support/Textmate" directory is correct after checkout from svn. Should it be this: Bundles/ Support/ or this: Bundles/ Conventions.txt Disabled Bundles/ LICENSE Manual/ PlugIns/ README Review/ Support/ Themes/ Tools/ Work in Progress/ Perhaps I invoked a checkout on the wrong directory? Ultimately I am trying to see all the Bundles in the Bundle directory. I'm unable to find ODCompletion items even though I see them in the file system. Thank you! az

17 years, 11 months

Bibtex default

by Nicholas Cole

When working with a Latex project, is there a way to specify the bibliography file that should be used by the relevant commands? I'm sorry is this question has an obvious answer, but I can't seem to find it... Best wishes, NPC

17 years, 11 months

Updated MultiMarkdown Bundle for TexMate

by Fletcher T. Penney

I updated the MultiMarkdown TextMate bundle today. This update fixes a problem that Leopard users were having --- or at least I think it does. It still works for me in Tiger, and I hear reports that this fixes the problem Leopard users were having. Specifically, they were getting an error message like: /bin/bash: line 2: cd: ~/Library/Application\ Support/MultiMarkdown: No such file or directory /bin/bash: line 3: cd: bin: No such file or directory /bin/bash: line 5: ./multimarkdown2XHTML.pl: No such file or directory This was caused by an apparent change in the way the shell works under Leopard. Please let me know if you continue to have trouble with this, and thanks to everyone who helped track down this bug. Download the new version from: * <http://files.fletcherpenney.net/MultiMarkdownForTextMate.zip> -- Fletcher T. Penney fletcher(a)fletcherpenney.net If you start out depressed, everything's kind of a pleasant surprise. - Lloyd (John Cusack) in Say Anything

17 years, 11 months

tab completion for NSArray

by Artie Ziff

Hi, While watching the 2nd obj-C screencast, I noticed Allan was getting a tab-completion on the word NSArray. Is it possible that particular tab-completion was removed from Textmate since the screencast was created? Or might I not have all the obj-C bundles? FTR... I get a rewrite/insertion of this: NSMutableArray *array = [NSMutableArray array]; when I do a tab completion on the word: array Perhaps creating such a tab-completion is so simple I can create my own? Do some bundles exist which are not distributed via the textmate svn repository? Thanks... az

17 years, 11 months

Re: MultiMarkdown problem under Leopard

by Fletcher T. Penney

Allan Odgaard wrote: > On 20 Dec 2007, at 20:47, Alan Curtis wrote: > > > cd "${TM_MULTIMARKDOWN_PATH:-~/Library/Application Support/ > > MultiMarkdown}" > > I think this (default path) lack “.tmbundle” and it _really_ should be > using TM_SUPPORT_PATH instead of a hardcoded (default) path, which > additionally means it should store multimarkdown2XHTML.pl under > Support/bin (in the bundle). No - MultiMarkdown belongs in Application Support - not in the textmate bundle. If it's in the bundle, then it's not accessible to other programs that use MultiMarkdown. The problem here appears to be that Leopard changes the way the shell and the TextMate variables work. I have not upgraded to Leopard yet, and welcome suggestions on how to fix the problem that Leopard users are having. F- -- Fletcher T. Penney fletcher(a)fletcherpenney.net If you start out depressed, everything's kind of a pleasant surprise. - Lloyd (John Cusack) in Say Anything

17 years, 11 months

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TextMate December 2007