TextMate February 2008

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103 discussions

by Oktay Acikalin

hi :) is it possible to skip binary files with "Find in Project"? as we have many big files like videos and images in our projects this not only eats up a great amount of memory but is also slow. it also doesn't make any sense to us since we want to search within the sourcecode and not some videos or images :). excluding those folders was a solution for some projects but we can't do it for all of them. regards, oktay.

16 years, 1 month

TM leaks memory in Find in Project, can Find in Project work in separate thread?

by Adam Strzelecki

Hello, It seems that TM is leaking memory in Find in Project (probably in OakDocument), it is NOT visible when working with small projects, but with bigger it grows RSIZE memory infinitely. Steps to reproduce: $ mate /Developer/Documentation ... then Find in Project for "test". In Performance Monitor watch as RSIZE grows above 1GB after about one minute. My Mac is MacBook Pro 2.2Ghz 2GB RAM, 10.5.2. I think it has something to do with OakDocument that is created for all searched files in the list, also for some non-text files. I just spotted that TM is not freeing RSIZE (nor VM) after closing some huge binary files like .pch (VC binary) or so. (Libraries). It may have something to do with that. It may have something to do with my former mail about big files with single line inside. Currently I work with some huge C/C++ projects, and lately searching for any file ends up with TM eating all my memory. BTW. Can't Find in Project work in separate thread? Like: when pressing [Find] in the Find in Project, [Find] button is made inactive, below appears spinning wheel icon "Working...", and below we may have [Stop] button that appears only when thread is active. I often use this, but it hangs TM for a while, moreover it is not possible to interrupt it. Best regards, -- Adam Strzelecki |: nanoant.com :|

16 years, 1 month

Missing Drawer : New Version

by Xavier Cambar

hi, Although I'm in no way related to the project, I'd like to inform that the MissingDrawer plugin has been updated. The changes are not yet significant, but the best is that the development of that oh-so-good plugin starts again, and we can so expect many new features coming to us! Maybe my dreams of a 'Expand/Collapse all' option will soon come true... URL: http://jannisleidel.com/2008/02/missingdrawer/ Regards, XC

16 years, 1 month

which version control system to take?

by Christoph Held

Hi rather than piggybacking on my other thread, I wanted to ask another question, namely which version control system to take for collaborative writing projects. I am basically starting afresh, so there is no code-base already in a certain repository format to be taken into account, and I am planning to use it for (collaborative) writing of text, mostly MultiMarkdown and maybe Latex if I get the hang of it. Most people advocating Subversion emphasize that it is widely used and rather easy to learn. As I am not planning to maintain source code in it anyway, these points may not be very important. It seems to me, the alternatives (Bazaar, Git, Mercurial to name a few I have read about) have matured quite a bit and I would not want to learn a specific system only to find out that previous users are migrating away from it for good reasons (that I may not see right now). So: if the requirements were: 1) up-to-date versioning 2) easy install 3) idiot friendly 4) collaboration friendly (merging of textfiles having been altered by several authors independently should be doable; see point 3 above) 5) offline work happens (branching and merging) 6) perhaps OS-independent (in case I can convince those other co-authors) 7) existence of a bundle providing integration into Textmate would be a huge plus (but consider that I may be satisfied with a very limited subset of what every versioning system offers already) 8) not sure if applicable: if a visualization tool such as Changes.app for diffing said textfiles be callable to compare versions that would be great, too. My experience with Filemerge et al, is limited because it does not seem to like UTF-8 very much (which I require). what would you choose? Thanks Christoph

16 years, 1 month

PracTex journal tips, revision control and academic workflow

by Christoph Held

Hello all, perhaps this is a bit off-topic so please bear with me. Some regulars on this forum were instrumental in developing these thougths though which is what encouraed me to post here. I am a researcher doing some of my writing in Multimarkdown text files and put my work on a portable harddrive which I carry home after work, synchronize to my home computer and carry on working there. Ditto for the reverse. After reading a series of inspiring articles about how to use subversion repositories for academic writers over on Practex journal I am beginning to think that I could make better use of my resources. Here is what I plan to do: Go to work, read, write, take notes etc. Some of this takes place in textfiles, some will reside XML files (Tinderbox), and some also in binary files at the end of the day. I have access to a server that I would like to push all my changes and new data to and then go home. From home, I would like to pull all changes to my home computer and carry on. 1) Will the version control systems compare whole lines or do some kind of document comparison trying to find identical blocks regardless of (soft) line breaks? 2) what I don't know is how well this system will work for binary files, e.g. Aperture libraries, Word files from colleagues etc. Ideally, I'd like to just send the changed bits of files, not all files that have changed to save bandwith and time. If something went wrong I would want to go back in time. I am working on a localized system (meaning non-US) in case that is presenting a problem. I am not afraid of the command line but I have no experience with version control whatsoever because I was left with the impression that it was of little use outside source code development. Although I do some reading about subversion, git, mercurial, bazaar etc I need some guidance if I am barking up the right tree in the first place. I would greatly appreaciate your thoughts Prion

16 years, 1 month

ExpanDrive for remote projects over SSH: snappy (at last)

by Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

Hello all, As a long-time TextMate user I'm well aware of the issues working with projects on remote filesystems -- I have been doing it day in and day out for just over three years now, using different combinations of tools. Like many of you, I've used Transmit for quick single-file edits and MacFusion/sshfs for heavier remote work for the past year or more, and they work well enough to be productive, but with well-known frustrations (latency, connection resilience). Lately I'm using ExpanDrive (http://www.magnetk.com/expandrive), which just launched officially. Same transport (SSH/SFTP), but with very aggressive caching and intelligent connection management under the hood. Together, they make it *way* snappier than sshfs on even high-latency links, and allow your mounts to stay live on finicky or intermittent connections, even as you sleep your laptop one place and wake it hours later on an entirely different network. It's a from-scratch new filesystem, not just a GUI for sshfs (though it does use the MacFUSE core), so its performance and stability are quite unlike what you may be used to. Of particular note (and this was a goal in development), the caching works well enough to largely eliminate the TextMate project focus lag problems we're all so familiar with by now, even over long-distance connections. (Full disclosure: I am tangentially connected with this project.) I think some of you will quite like it. -jrk

16 years, 1 month

"Find" doesn't work when searching Java API docs

by Armon Dadgar

Does anyone else experience problems when searching the java api? Here is an example of what happens: 1. Press Control-H to open API 2. Apple-F to open find window 3. Type "String" 4. Goes to "AttributedString" in the side panel 5. Pressing the next button or Apple-G does nothing. I have tried the Regular Expressions option, Ignore Case, and Wrap Around. None of them seem to work. Very frustrating to need to continuously scroll down. Anyone have a solution, or experience the same thing?

16 years, 1 month

TM tokenizer is taking 100% CPU for long while using 100-200KB text files with single line

by Adam Strzelecki

Hello, I've sent a mail to Allan regarding the problem, but I want to share also this problem with all of you subscribed to the TM list. Maybe you have also encountered this? I'm working with few auto-generated FO (XML) files that have no line- breaks. You can reproduce such dummy file with: $ cd /tmp $ perl -e '{print "<html></html>" x 20000}' > test.html $ mate test.html As you see TM gonna take 100% CPU for a really long-long while until you get syntax highlight. Also any modification (line-break) causes TM to take again 100% CPU for a while. I'm aware it is rare case to work with such files, but is there any remedy for this problem? I have soft-wrap turned on, also using System Monitor I can see that it is tokenizer thread that is taking the whole CPU. Regards, -- Adam Strzelecki |: nanoant.com :|

16 years, 1 month

Simple query...

by Richard Dyce

... am I missing something? Can't seem to find a bundle for handling XSLT tags. Is there one? Thought I'd ask before I started to knock one up. R Richard Dyce MA (Cantab.) MBCS MIET | Director Richard Dyce Consultants Ltd. Business Consultancy | Training | Systems | Bespoke Applications Programming MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, FileMaker, AppleScript Studio Contact: Add me to your address book Web: http://dyce.com Bio: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rjdyce Registered Number: 4890568 VAT Number: 825 3090 44 Registered Office 9 Friary Gardens Winchester SO23 9AF Incorporated in England and Wales. Confidentiality Notice The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended for the named addressee only and may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or authorised to receive the e-mail of the named addressee you may not disclose, use or copy the contents of the e-mail. If you received the e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and then delete the e-mail. Richard Dyce Consultants Ltd. does not accept responsibility for this message and any views or opinions contained in this e-mail are solely those of the author unless expressly stated otherwise.

16 years, 1 month

User authentication when pushing in Mercurial bundle

by S. Moon

While switching from the terminal version of Mercurial to the Mercurial bundle, I have found out that it doesn't seem to support user authentication. While many repos do not use authentication, the one I am working on uses authentication when pushing to the central repo. Am I missing something, or is it simply something that isn't supported? Your very best, Sangwhan

16 years, 1 month

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TextMate February 2008