TextMate April 2009

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90 discussions

bibtex in textmate problem and tentative solution

by Peeter Sällström Randsalu

Hi! I had the same problem as described in a post from Sebastian on 2007-11-11 (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.textmate.general/ 23160). Here is my error output: Running bibtex on Exjobb (ny).tex Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/peeter/Peeterprogram/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Latex.tmbundle/Support/bin/ texMate.py", line 457, in texStatus, isFatal, numErrs, numWarns = run_bibtex(texfile=fileName) File "/Users/peeter/Peeterprogram/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Latex.tmbundle/Support/bin/ texMate.py", line 71, in run_bibtex return stat,fatal,err,warn UnboundLocalError: local variable 'stat' referenced before assignment It seems that it had to do with the parentheses in my filename messing up the regexes. My solution was to change lines 71 and 72 in Textmate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Bundles/Latex.tmbundle/Support/bin/texMate.py as follows: # auxfiles = [f for f in os.listdir('.') if re.search('.aux $',f) > 0] # auxfiles = [f for f in auxfiles if re.match(r'('+ basename + r'\.aux|bu\d+\.aux)',f)] auxfiles = [f for f in os.listdir('.') if re.search('.aux$',f) > 0 and (f.startswith(basename) or re.match(r'bu\d+\.aux', f))] This works, at least for me. Or have I messed something else up in the process? /Peeter

13 years, 10 months

How do I vary the C indentation?

by Berk Geveci

Hi folks, I work on several open-source projects (VTK, ParaView, CMake...) that follow a somewhat unusual indentation style. Instead of if (foo) { bar(); } bar(); they require if (foo) { bar; } bar() Getting the first curly indent right was trivial but I can't figure out how to reduce the indentation _after_ the closing curly. When the pattern matches decreaseIndentPattern, the current line's indentation is reduced. What I need is for the following line to be unindented. Is there any way to do this? Thanks, -berk

15 years, 4 months

LaTeX Watch and Master Files

by Evan Berkowitz

Is there a way to get the ``Watch Document'' option to be master-file aware? It seems to me that watching the master file doesn't work, because it only re-compiles when the master changes, and watching the included files doesn't work because it's not a whole latex file---I get the error Error: No \begin{document} found I couldn't find the command \begin{document} in your file. Help is much appreciated, as always. Evan -------------------------------------------------- Prediction is difficult, especially the future. Niels Bohr

16 years, 9 months

Language grammar generator for XML

by Édouard Gilbert

Hi list, I've recently been working on a Relax NG to TM Language Grammar XSLT stylesheet. I did it mainly to exercise, so I didn’t look far for anything similar. Because Relax NG is XML and can be easily generated from DTD or XML Schema using trang, it seemed like a good choice. I’d like to read your comments, especially about the generated grammars style which need much improvement. How does it work: 1) put a file.rng (in XML syntax) in the Schema directory 2) from the root directory, execute the shell script ./rng2txmt.sh Schema/file.rng 3) the grammar is generated as "Generated Language Grammars/ file.plist" (along with file.plist.xml) If this doesn’t work, please read the known issues, it might be a namespace problem. What does it try and do: * look for and mark invalid tags or attributes under or in a given tag * avoid to create empty repository entries * give a tag-aware scope for attributes (aim is to generate auto- completion lists aside) What I would like it to do: * have basic namespace support * have current-tag-aware (not any-ancestor-aware) scope for auto- completion of tags e.g, a scope which only match the dots in <a>....<b> <c/> <b>....<c/>....</a> Not so long ago, I would have say it's impossible, but now that I’ve slightly improved my TM grammar-fu, I’m pretty sure it is achievable and may even be not that hard. Matching > and /> to open, looking-ahead for <b and <c to close, perhaps. * actually generate completion list. This shouldn’t be too hard. Known issues: * If I’m right, TM grammars works in a « first matching rule is chosen » which is incompatible with Relax NG main advantage : non- determinism. Thus I think some Relax NG schema may never be parsed correctly. DTD and XML Schema need to be deterministic, however, so the issue is not that important. I think this is the problem with the generated relaxng grammar. * / ! \ Because XML namespace is a mess and I didn’t bother dealing with it in my stylesheet, one need to remove any mention of the default namespace in the rng file. Otherwise the stylesheet won’t generate anything * It currently doesn’t deal with anyName, exceptions, exclusive choice or any other RNG construction. * No auto-indentation of the generated plist. Who cares, anyway, TM cleans it up for you. * A whole lot of useless scopes, mainly there for debugging. * Whitespace in tag management in inconsistent. * The code is ugly. By the way, I’ve used some excerpts from default XML grammar. I hope it does not bother its author. Is he Brian Lalor or Allan Odgaard? Thanks, Édouard

16 years, 10 months

Lua Bundle patch

by Gaspard Bucher

This is a patch to enable text indentation in the Lua bundle. Please include it with the current bundle version. Gaspard

16 years, 11 months

TextMate hangs on large files...

by Jim Leask

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

16 years, 11 months

Quoting Pattern in Latex-Bundle shown as invalid

by Niels Kobschätzki

Hi! I'm just working on some Tex-Document which uses several dialogues which I want to enclose in "< "> (the result are those << >>-enclosures in the document). Would be cool if that could be added to the language grammar. Thanks in advance Niels

16 years, 12 months

Just starting to call myself a full time TM uses, general

by Scott Haneda

Hello, I now use BBedit rarely, the times TM just flat out amazes me, I am a happy camper. There are times I still fire up the old BB, but it gets less and less. Maybe I am getting too old to remember all these damn keyboard shortcuts :) 1) Is there an <a href... snippet, I can not find it 2) How can I shift selected text right and left one space at a time? 3) Most other apps allow me to drag and drop a text clipping to the apps icon, and it will open it. In TM, I have to open the clipping, copy, then new file, then paste. Any workarounds on this one? Oddly, I find I used this feature a lot and I am missing it. 4) I am liking soft tabs a lot, as they seem to allow me to align things better, and when files move to other places, they stay lined up regardless of the tab stop setting. I was happily working in 4 spaces per tab stop, and wanted to move to 5, changing it did nothing. I had to convert spaces to tabs, then make the change. I am not entirely sure what I did really. Can someone give me a primer or point me to docs on how this works? * I am often opening tab separated files, and will need to open tabs to 40 spaces or so, because the launch time to something like Excel is just too aggravating, TM seems to work against me a little for this type of work, suggestions? 5) Given code such as: $foo = 'bar'; $this = 'that'; $something = 'else'; What is a simple way to get to: $foo = 'bar'; $this = 'that'; $something = 'else'; 6) I have picked up this TM book and printed it out, it is helping me a lot. There is a section on being able to select some sql, and have it run and show me the output. I am not understanding how to make this work. I usually have a db.inc that will contain my user and pass and db name, so it will be well outside the scope of the file I am in, unless TM can follow that include reference. To be able to run arbitrary sql would be huge for me, is there a better walk through? I am just not getting this one to work. I have not tried to be honest, since I do not understand the setup at all. 7) Any of you care to share your top #1 little tricks, the one thing you use all the time, that just makes you happy every time you invoke it? I mainly work in php, so leaning on things that would be helpful in that area would be nice. Second would be bash, and lately, for some odd reason, I have been spending some time in TCL, but not much, so I am not sure how many tricks in there would benefit me in the long run. Thanks all... Hey, when is the next version coming out... just kidding :) -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *

17 years, 2 months

how can I make TextMate the default editor for text files on 10.5.6

by Bill Paxton

Hello, How can I get 10.5.6 to use TextMate as the default application to open text files instead of using TextEdit? For example, if I do the following, I'd like the new file to open in TextMate: grep 'test' *.c > newfile open newfile Currently, this opens in TextEdit (ugh). For files with an extension, I can get the system to use TextMate for all files with that extension. But I'd like something that works automatically for files without extensions (like "newfile" in the example). Also while it works to use "get info" to set the "open with" application for an existing file, when I do "Change All..." to use TextMate, I get the following error: An error occurred while changing the application that open "newfile" because not enough information is available. I'm using Version 1.5.8 (1498). Thanks, Bill Paxton

17 years, 3 months

A couple of thoughts from a TextMate newbie

by Darren Brierton

Hello, long-time Emacs user / new TextMate user here. I wanted to drop by and say "hi", say how much I am loving TextMate so far (I thought nothing would drag me away from Emacs), and discuss a couple of features that I miss. Firstly, I was on the whole a very happy user of Emacs, and an article I wrote describing my Emacs environment for XHTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP web development was even mentioned in the O'Reilly Emacs book. I'd tried TextMate a couple of years ago and not liked it, but I tried it again a few weeks ago and was blown away. However there are two things that I miss. I have done a Google search on the mailing list archives and couldn't see much discussion of either of these, but please appreciate that the mailing list archive is very large and I'm new here so I apologies in advance if I'm just raking over things that have been discussed to death. 1. Good parenthesis matching and highlighting I'm actually genuinely surprised at this. TexMate is very weak in this area. I should be able to put the cursor between say "})" and have the two closing parentheses highlighted in different colours and have their corresponding opening parenthese highlighted in matching colours. 2. The ability to parse DTDs and Schemas for automagic knowledge of markup languages This is much more of a tall order, but it is something that PSGML mode and nXML mode provide in Emacs, and to some extent it is similar to what AUC-TeX provides for LaTeX editing in Emacs. With PSGML mode and nXML mode I can open any type of SGML or XML document and as long as Emacs can find the DTD or the Schema it automatically understands the language in question: it knows what elements are part of the language, where they can be inserted, what attributes those elements can have and even what attribute values they can have. That means that you don't need to write a MathML mode, an SVG mode, etc. In TextMate I needed to hand edit an SVG file but there is no SVG bundle, just an XML one. It was the first time in weeks I had to use Emacs. Similarly work is progressing rapidly now on HTML 5. Support will have to be laboriously added to TextMate for this in the absence of something which simply understood the DTD or Schema. AUC-TeX on Emacs worked in a similar way, in that it was capable of parsing the LaTeX packages you were using and automatically extracting the commands and environments they used and adding them to menus. As I understand it, the features of TextMate 2.0 are somewhat shrouded in mystery, but I understand that the underlying engine for language grammars is being re-written. Does anyone know if the kind of feature I discussed is likely to be possible in TextMate 2? Maybe it is already possible in TextMate 1, but no one else has seen a need for it? Anyway, so far the pros of TextMate are outweighing the cons. There were a large number of niggles with Emacs that were driving me up the wall, and so far it has been a joy to switch to TextMate. Better paren matching seems like something that just needs to be there. A more intelligent way for dealing with markup languages is highly desirable from my point of view, and could in the long-term end up being a deal- breaker. I'd be interested to hear what others think. Best, Darren

17 years, 3 months

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