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!
Q1: I recently updated to TM2alpha, and I'm quite fond of it! I mostly use
TM as my LaTeX editor. However, when I compile documents the log window
doesn't close when the PDF is viewed in Skim. I have made sure the "Keep log
window open" option is not checked. Actually I would like the window to show
only at errors
Q2: I would prefer to be able to chose the log window layout to be more
minimalistic, kind of terminal-like, as I find the default layout to be
unnecessary graphical and heavy. I've tried to google about a bit, but can't
seem to find if changing it is possible or not.
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My understanding is that soft-wrapped lines can now be indented, but I can't
figure out how to enable that. Is this feature implemented?
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rmate is really cool. I want to work with a project directory
though, not opening one file at a time. Is there any way to get rmate
to open a directory or a project file?
So I'm a bit late to the TextMate wonderfulness.. I've been using the
30-day trial version for the last week, and got it pretty customized to
my liking. Project+, MissingDrawer, SVNMate, bundles, a few custom
Templates for my C++ projects, etc. Loving it.
Today I went out and got the latest TextMate2 compile from about 2 days
ago, I believe, and wow. That's a huge step backward IMO. No
"Projects" that I can see, just look at a Directory (which doesn't work
for me, my Directory Structure != Project structure). No support for
Templates either, it seems, which I just recently figured out and
_really_ love (great to just pull in a template of my base C++ class and
"fillin the blanks"). Plus lots of things I customized don't see to be
there anymore, or are buried in the new "tm_properties" file.
Basically, I'm trying to figure out what to do next. I was getting
ready to buy TextMate1, but if this is what TextMate2 is going to look
like maybe I should evaluate some other tools. Is TM1 still "alive"?
Or are users urged to start using TM2? Am I just really missing
something in TextMate2? I'm a C/C++ developer that also uses Arduino,
CMake, Python, and other stuff, so things like CTags, project-specific
environment variables, and true "Projects" are important to me.
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Hi,
When I pull a git repository, Textmate update automatically the
corresponding opened files (which is cool) but it does it silently.
Is there a way to get notified when a opened file is updated?
I found this old ticket about the same issue :
http://ticket.macromates.com/show?ticket_id=FFEB806B
Is it already implemented or still planned?
Thank you.
I've set up my Avian and TextMate folders in Application Support as symlinks
to those folders on my Dropbox account. That seems to be working.
But is it safe? Can that setup handle TextMate 2 open on my Mac Pro and
MacBook Pro at the same time?
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Just asking for a file to print crashes TextMate 2 (9359) so thoroughly that
its session folder has to be deleted before it will restart.
Has anyone else seen this or is it a problem with my machine?
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In the file browser different file types have different icons. My .scss files
have their own icons, as do my .php files, for example.
But my .less files have a generic icon.
Where are those icons defined? How do I go about adding an icon for my .less
files?
Bob
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I know it is works in progress, but how about moving tabs right of file browser 1st (something that many ppl have requested so far)?
I really find new bar and tabs above awkward, also against HIG since switching tab has absolutely no impact on file browser:
Btw it doesn't look like on: https://github.com/textmate/textmate/wiki/Main-Window The bar is much darker and higher in the build.
How about making the bar same size as tabs bar too:
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