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.
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
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
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 :)
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
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
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
The following ticket was opened as follows: Status: open, reported by Ryan Cornelsen on 2009-08-20 (request)
It reports as currently still open after 2 years…
Is there any news of status update on this request, as I would too like to re-iterate the request as it is an invaluable option…
Regards,
Basil
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
