TextMate December 2010

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42 discussions

by Martin Hess

I've been using TextMate for years and I'm productive and happy with it. However, I like to try other editors from time to time to see if I'm missing anything. Recently I spent some time learning Vim and I discovered a few things that I particularly liked. 1) Split windows -- not the kind of split windows you normally get in Mac applications, but the Vim style ones. In Vim you can easily navigate from the keyboard to your different splits and choose what files to display in each. Additionally, you don't have to reach for your mouse to create a split. When you split, Vim divides the space up for you which is what you want most of the time. I found that it is very handy when needing to view more than 1 file at a time, which in my case is most of the time. Closing splits is about as easy as they are to create -- all from the keyboard. Multiple windows isn't really the same thing because they are slow to setup and tear down. 2) Selective multifile grep -- in Vim you can use a regular expression to open a set of files, and then just grep across the open files. 3) Don't need arrow keys -- after years of editing with the mouse; I find it painful to reach for it. It hurts my right shoulder and shoulder blade. It even hurts to have to move my hand down to the arrow keys. However, in Vim it is easy to keep your hands resting on your keyboard with your shoulders relaxed. No reaching for the mouse or arrow keys.

4 years, 6 months

LaTeX Typeset & View

by Alex Ross

Hi LaTeX users, I'm working some more on the Typeset and View command, we are going to replace the default command that currently ships with TextMate. But I need some information. What process are TextMate's LaTeX users following for building their documents? I'm sure most of you are using bibtex, but what about other things like makeindex? Has everyone moved to a pure pdf-based process, or are some of you still using dvi/postscript? What are you using for pictures? Anything you can tell me will help. I would also *love* example documents along with the expected output. This will aid in testing, and ensure that your particular process will be supported! Thanks, —Alex

12 years, 2 months

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

12 years, 3 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

13 years, 9 months

Scroll + focus bug

by Rasmus Abrahamsen

bugs(a)macromates.com returned a permanent failure. So I will report the weird behaviour I notived. I have a long source file (300-400 lines). I put my caret at line 200 and scrolled (with a mouse) down to the bottom. I then pressed right-arrow to go to the symbol to the right of my caret expecting the window to scroll to show where my caret is. The window does scroll, but it scrolls to the top of the document instead of to the exact position of my caret. I will attach a movie: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/323865/Textmate%20scroll%20bug.mov As the window start scrolling automatically, it's because I push right-arrow, the next time I push right-arrow again and finally the window actually shows what I am editing. Rasmus Abrahamsen

14 years

TM lags when switching

by Scott Haneda

I am pretty sure I just pinned this down to TM. If I work in TM, save, then command-tab to a browser, there is significant lag from the time it will switch to the browser, or, at times, even bring up the application tab switcher. If I do not save, the toggle is fast, so it seems to be something to do with leaving TM, where it is not letting me leave as fast as other apps do. I have tried toggling back and forth between other apps, and the behavior is speedy. Any idea what is going on, and how to solve it? These are simple files, single files, that have a hundred lines or so in them, nothing complicated at all. -- Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *

14 years, 1 month

My Path Issue (I think) with New Latex Bundle

by Charles Turner

Hi all- Having trouble running the "new" TextMate bundle with a LaTeX file that worked via the old (or current, stable) bundle and (now) works on the command line. Here's a bit of the log: > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009) (format=pdflatex 2009.11.7) 6 AUG 2010 11:43 > entering extended mode > file:line:error style messages enabled. > **"/Users/cturner/Documents/BIZ/Personal/Resume, etc./Resume-2009/resume20090628.tex" > (/Users/cturner/Documents/BIZ/Personal/Resume, etc./Resume-2009/resume20090628.tex > LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> > > [clip...] > > Package: ifxetex 2009/01/23 v0.5 Provides ifxetex conditional > ) > /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty:18: > ******************************************** > * XeTeX is required to compile this document. > * Sorry! > ********************************************. > \RequireXeTeX ...********************************} My document uses XeLaTex and has this as its first line: > %!TEX TS-program = xelatex So I imagine my problem is that XeLaTeX isn't getting run. My default engine in Preferences is "xelatex" so, being a noobie, I'm not sure what else to do to tell the bundle my desires. Any help greatly appreciated! Best wishes, Charles

14 years, 1 month

Difficulty using TextMate as external editor

by Ian Greig

I'm a new user and I don't have a Unix background, so I am struggling with Section 21.1. in the manual. I am attempting to use TextMate as an external editor. 1. It works fine with my various Cocoa apps, with the shortcut showing up in the Edit menu. No problems here. 2. I need to use TextMate with Tinderbox (a non Cocoa app). Users on the Tinderbox forum have various ways of doing this, either using the "mate" command in Terminal, or using a variety of ways of calling this command. However, my problem is that I cannot get commands via terminal to import text, or save it back. "mate -h" does bring up a menu of commands, so that much is working. Quite likely, this is owing to my lack of experience with the command line. I have read and re-read section 21.1. but it assumes a familiarity with Unix and CL operation which is new ground to me. I would really appreciate a *simple*, assuming-nothing, explanation of what I need to do to copy contents of a window from my non-Cocoa app (Tinderbox) into TextMate, and then back again -- presumably using some variant of the "mate" command via Terminal. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Difficulty-using-TextMate-as-external-editor-tp305546… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

14 years, 1 month

TextMate becoming increasingly unstable

by Max Lein

I have noticed that especially after upgrading to 10.6, TextMate has become more and more crash prone -- especially after switching from another app back to TextMate. I use it mainly in larger LaTeX projects in conjunction with git and nowadays it would crash, two, three times a week. I often switch back and forth between Skim or Preview and Textmate. Hence, I mostly don't lose any data, because I've saved the file before switching apps, but nevertheless, it's quite disconcerting. Back in the (good old ;-) 10.4 days, TextMate was absolutely rock solid and it was exceedingly rare for TextMate to crash. Are those known issues? Will there be more fixes down the road for 1.5 addresses stability problems? What are the root causes?

14 years, 1 month

Running cucumber features with cmd+R?

by Mikael Henriksson

Hi, I try to run a feature with cmd+R and it gives me the following message: :29:in `require': no such file to load -- spec (LoadError) from :29:in `require' from /Users/mhenrixon/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Cucumber.tmbundle/Support/lib/cucumber/mate.rb:23:in `' from :29:in `require' from :29:in `require' from /Users/mhenrixon/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Cucumber.tmbundle/Support/lib/cucumber/mate/feature_helper.rb:1:in `' from :29:in `require' from :29:in `require' from /tmp/cucumber-19009.rb:2:in `' The RSpec specs work fine it's just my features that don't run. I hate having to switch to console to do this. Any suggestions? Mikael Henriksson Tel: +46 (0) 730- 393 200 mikael(a)zoolutions.se

14 years, 1 month

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TextMate December 2010