TextMate July 2011

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65 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.

5 years, 10 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

13 years, 6 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

13 years, 8 months

Interactive input when using Cmd-R

by Phil

Reading this: http://blog.macromates.com/2009/interactive-input/ Did the steps: > cd /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ > svn export http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Support/lib/tm_interactive_input.dylib@11735 When I press ⌘R on a simple python script using: variable = raw_input() ... it still fails like this: EOF Error: 'EOF when reading a line' Making a simple Ruby program, I got similar error: TypeError: can't convert nil into String The comments to the blog post seems to stray somewhat from the topic, so I couldn't figure out if there was something I was supposed to do differently ... -- Phil :)

13 years, 11 months

Spelling and Printing

by Sascha Vieweg

Hello TM is really on of the best text editors, however, there is two issues unresolved for (the) years (of SL) now. Issue one is TextMate's spelling behaviour, i.e., the automatic detection of the language of a written paragraph, see here: http://lists.macromates.com/textmate/2009-November/029964.html TM does not detect the language I am typing in, perhaps because it uses a non-Apple document window. Anyway, always changing the system language to get correct spell check on the fly (as suggested in the thread) could hardly be a working solution. In addition, quite often I write source documents in various languages, e.g. English and German, and that makes a "one language per document" unusable. There has also been an issue with an advanced print dialogue (but I cannot remember the posting). It is quite nice that TM adds headers and footers, however, TM does not print coloured syntax, and leaving a margin of about 1cm makes the printout unusable for punching and filing. In addition, 11pt Monaco is quite good on my screen but printing in that font size is rather a waste of space on the page. Of course, I know, that one may produce a html (nicely coloured, indeed), open that one in, say, Firefox, and print the html page. Anyway, I was wondering if there is any progress on these two points, first, to get the apple multilingual spell check working, second, to provide TM with a print preference to set things like font, colours, and margins. Any thoughts? Regards *S* -- Sascha Vieweg, saschaview(a)gmail.com

14 years, 1 month

Completely remove textmate

by Per Qvindesland

Hi List I need to remove textmate but I don't see any information on how to remove it so I can re-install it again with a version we got internally, could anyone please send me some instructions? Kind regards Per Qvindesland

14 years, 6 months

Unnecessary commenting line in modern fortran mode

by Kaster Might

Hi there, If some variable starts with "C", the whole line which contains that variable and where it at the very first place highlighted as comment. I suppose it comes from old F77 style, where C denotes comment, but it's not necessary now. Is there any way to fix it? My current way-around is to put single space before that variable, but in this case overall code doesn't look as nice as before. Thanks. -- Kaster Might

14 years, 8 months

problem with Lion's new hidden scroll bars

by Max Lein

I've upgraded to Lion yesterday and I've configured TextMate to use a dark background. Lion's new hidden scroll bars are now unusable, I cannot see them when scrolling. While I have enabled the scroll bars by default now (and there are good reasons why), TextMate should work with the default configuration of the OS. Will there be an update that makes TextMate more amenable to Lion's new UI elements? Max

14 years, 8 months

Change python interpreter path

by Kaster Might

Hi everyone, I have 3 installed versions of python on my Mac. How to tell TextMate to launch specified one on Command-R? Thanks. -- Kaster Might

14 years, 9 months

Re: Color dialog missing opacity slider

by Craig Edmond

Sorry about all the corporate notification stuff in my previous reply. :P

14 years, 9 months

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TextMate July 2011