TextMate August 2008

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by Eric Uner

In looking at how spell checking in comments works, and searching the archives for alternatives and suggestions, I can see spelling is disabled in comments because, as Alan points out, "a lot of comments are actually commented out code." Good point, and I can clearly see there is no one way that can make everyone happy. In my case, a tremendous amount of useful documentation is in code comments, and spelling errors make the code less professional. I am constantly going to an external editor, or typing the comment into a blank area of the document inside a quote so that TextMate thinks it is a string, then removing the quote and hitting command+/. I'm thinking about crating a shell script or bundle or something to do all this. Does anyone have any more "elegant" suggestions? It would be great if there was a way, for example, to have a menu item (perhaps even a bundle) that could just spell check the selection regardless of the context. Thank you for any suggestions. Doc

17 years, 1 month

Matching multiple lines in a grammar pattern

by Nate Cavanaugh

Hi all, I'm trying to add an invalid scope to a certain group of lines. Basically, the regex pattern I would like to match is this: ^(\n){2,} Which works fine in the Find dialog, but when trying to use it as a pattern, it doesn't work. I am guessing because of the way that the pattern matching works for grammars, but is there a way to match this? The logic is, I would like to match every line that has no content on it, but is part of a group of 2 or more extraneous lines. One \n is valid, but 2 or more is invalid. I've tried so many variations of trying to use captures, matching content, but it seems to be treating each line as it's own match independent of the previous or next ones. Anyone know how I might go about applying this? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Matching-multiple-lines-in-a-grammar-pattern-tp189011… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

17 years, 1 month

Feature Request: Bibdesk Support for Latex Watch in Latex bundle

by Jan Michael

Hi Textmate and LaTex-Users, with my current workflow writing a masters thesis I frequently add books via BibDesk to my bibliography. Currently I have to run BibTex separatly to propagate changes in my *.bib file to the latex main document. But I think this could also be done by the latex_watch.pl script of the latex bundle. Is this possible? Cheers, Jan

17 years, 2 months

Re: textmate Digest, Vol 3, Issue 14

by Roberto Aguilar

On Aug 7, 2008, at 2:02 AM, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com wrote: > On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Nick wrote: >> It's kind of funny to me that my two favorite programs by far >> (textmate and quicksilver) have a completely unknown development >> schedule (although quicksilver's is now dead :[ ). oh well! Theyre >> both kind of like os x - you can't complain very legitimately about >> their faults because they're just so much better than the >> alternatives. >> > > Sure you can. Mac OS X users traditionally complain loudly about > faults and grievances they find with OS X. You'll rarely find a more > critical bunch than aggrieved Mac users. That a piece of software is > good does not make it impervious to criticism. > > Someone else brought up MacVim, and it's an interesting point. For a > long time, I used Textmate exclusively. But now, I only use Textmate > around 50% of the time -- the other half taken up by MacVim, when I > need split panes, remote editing, or an editor that will not choke on > large text files. +1 for MacVim; I use it exclusively now. I must be one of the few that got TM1 specifically because TM2 was advertised as a free upgrade. I figured I would learn what the editor was all about and be familiar with the basics when the new version came out, I assumed, soon after Leopard. Well, that time came and went and there are enough niggling things in TM, particularly with the python bundle (the language I edit the most), that I went searching elsewhere. For me the single most frustrating thing with the python bundle is that you need to add blank lines with spaces to line up the end of a class / def in order for code folding to work. That is not only annoying for me, but other team members as well. A close #2 is also with folding, which breaks if you start function parameters on a new line rather than on the same line, e.g. test = some_func( param1, param2) Perfectly legal, but you need to do this in order to have any hope folding code: test = some_func(\ param1, param2) Legal, but annoying, especially working with a team where I don't have control of the entire source's coding style. -berto.

17 years, 2 months

Scrollbar bug

by Morten Skyt

Hey, I tried sending this a week ago to the mailing list through that webinterface, Nabble, but as there was no responses, I recon it didn't come through, so here I try again: I just noticed a peculiar bug with the scrollbars when browsing the database. Apparently, the resizing of the window often causes some of the scrollbars to be either fully or partially hidden. I've tried searching the posts through nabble.com and it didn't seem this issue was debated, but as this is my first time here, I apologize if I was wrong... I've recorded a little video which demonstrates the bug. Textmate is build 1464. http://skythost.com/stuff/textmatescrollbarbug.mov Regards, Morten Skyt

17 years, 2 months

How to target specific fields for a "Change to Titlecase" in SQL

by John Stephens

Hi, I'm new. I'm working on a custom Textpattern installation and my client has entered a massive amount of text data in certain fields using UPPERCASE. He wants the text displayed in Title Case instead, and he doesn’t want to manually change it. I can easily use the style declaration "text-transform: capitalize;" for these elements, but my client would very much prefer formal title case in which words such as “the,” “of,” “and,” and “for” are not capitalized. (I see that Textmate’s "Convert to Titlecase" command in the "Text" menu does this correctly.) I have made a mysql dump of the database, but I'm not sure how to isolate the appropriate data for a text transformation. Here is how each individual record is formatted in the database: (91,'2008-08-03 05:20:57','author-username','2008-08-03 05:26:33','','UPPERCASE DATA','','','','','','','UPPERCASE-DATA','', 0,'Comment',0,4,1,1,'section-name','','lowercase-data','lowercase- data','','','','','','','','','','','UPPERCASE DATA','','lowercase- data','3p344629nn178n874sp2s222s0q3n072','2008-08-03') The mysql dump also contains uppercase terms such as "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS" and lowercase terms like "datetime" and "varchar" that I _don't_ want changed. Is there a simple way to target just the UPPERCASE DATA fields enclosed in single quotes for a massive "Covert to Titlecase"? I welcome advise from regular expression fu-masters and Textmate adepts! Thanks in advance! John Stephens

17 years, 2 months

Re: TextMate 2, I give it up

by Christopher Boerger

> Please, lets not start this again. > Be happy with what you have, and dream of TM2 at night, > but for the love of god, stop complaining in the mean time. I think it's fair enough to ask. TextMate 2 has been talked about for what, 1.5 -2 years now? There's rarely an update as to the progress either, which is what I think is the main reason people ask "so where's TextMate 2.0 at?" It's a closed-source commercial product (which, for the record, is okee dokee by me) so, in my opinion, there is more responsibility in communicating with your customers. Nobody can just hop in and adopt the open-source "don't like it, then fix it" approach. Why are people so defensive about talking about it? Perhaps I missed a TextMate 2.0 mega-flame battle prior to subscribing to this list. Clearly TextMate is great. Clearly TextMate is an impressive version 1.x generation product. However, if you really think that TextMate is so complete then I question if you have used any other text editor or IDE or if you are just a fanboy. Basic features like split panes windows and a decent undo system are missing. Because those features are so basic it means their absence is felt nearly every time I use TextMate. I won't get into what features from what editors are missing/ would be nice but I list those two only to underscore the point that TextMate, while great, still has, at the very least, some basic functionality missing. Basic functionality that will, we assume, be addressed with TextMate 2.0. There isn't a day the goes by that I don't lament the lack of a split pane window. Please note that this does not imply I don't think TextMate doesn't have many great things about it that other editors are missing. TextMate rocks. Therefore, after a long, silent wait since its announcement and the fact that there are still some glaring holes with the current release I think it's fair to ask, "so where's 2.0 at?" It's not a complaint, it's just a question and a reasonable one at that.

17 years, 2 months

Mactex wiki doesn't mention TextMate

by Snyder, David F

I was checking on the synctex issue brought up yesterday and while looking at the MacTex wiki (for "TeX on a Mac") there is no mention of TextMate as a TeX editor or "frontend", which is rather surprising since I've used all of the editors and front ends mentioned and found TextMate's approach preferable. I've not the time right now, but perhaps some enterprising soul from this list might wish to rectify the situation: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Sincerely -- David F. Snyder, Ph. D. Department of Mathematics Texas State University 601 University Drive San Marcos, TX 78666 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)

17 years, 2 months

RubyMate broken

by Tim O'Leary

Can anyone tell me how to fix this error: /tmp/temp_textmate.KNOfLq: line 6: : command not found I tried a complete re-install of TextMate with no improvement. This is on a 15" MacBook Pro with current Leopard. -- Tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------

17 years, 2 months

Changing

by Steve Lianoglou

Hi all, When entering commit comments using the subversion bundle, you can submit the dialog box by hitting the Enter key w/o having to grab the mouse and hit the Commit button with the cursor. I was wondering if I could change which key invokes the "Commit" command in the dialog box. Since the Enter key is a multi-step dance on my keyboard, I was hoping to be able to switch it from Enter to "Shift-Return", or something similar. Anyone know if that's possible? Thanks, -steve ps. Sorry for the bad subject line, can't think of any handy one-liner to summarize my question.

17 years, 2 months

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