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.
I've used Whitesmith bracing style for *decades*, and had it kinda-sorta working in TM 1.5.x, though not perfectly. Now I've lost those old settings and for the life of me can't figure out how to get it even close in 2.0. There's clearly something fundamental that I'm missing, but I've spent hours on this off and on over the past few months, and I'm guessing that someone who really understands the rules (and regex) better than I, could get me on the right path in short order. I'd definitely appreciate it.
For those (unfortunate souls) who are not familiar with Whitesmith:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Whitesmiths_style
Also, just as a general suggestion, it seems like it would be really helpful to have just a handful of "packaged" example indentation rules for the small handful of common bracing styles, i.e. Allman, K&R, Whitesmith, maybe Gnu. Of course it wouldn't be perfect for everyone, but it could be really helpful as a starting point. If you know of such a set of examples, please point me to them (yes, I've looked). Thanks!
Hi all,
I'm trying to develop a bundle for communicating with a TCP server, and
would like to create 1) a bundle command that opens the connection, and 2)
other commands that use that connection object (eg via grabbing text
selection in the editor window).
In Python, I've created a bundle command like this:
import socket
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
HOST = "127.0.0.1"
PORT = 7098
sock.connect((HOST, PORT))
sock.send("some command...")
print sock.recv(512)
That sets up the socket correctly, in fact you can send messages to the TCP
server.
However each time I send a command, the socket is obviously re-created; I
wondered if I TextMate provides a mechanism to save the 'sock' binding in
the current environment - so that I can reuse it later within other
commands.
Hope this makes sense - thanks in advance for any help.
Mike
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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Allan,
I solved the problem. In my Mac-side SSH configuration (OS X 10.8.4), I had
AddressFamily inet
listed in my .ssh/config. This limits ssh connections to using IPv4. If I disable that, then it works fine. For some reason the change to allowing IPv6 in TextMate in conjunction with the above openssh option fails. Disabling the AddressFamily line makes it work.
Related, I had "disabled" IPv6 on my Mac networking by setting it to "local link-only". It still works with that, but I get an error message on the server side from rmate:
setsockopt TCP_NODELAY: Invalid argument
This error goes away by changing IPv6 to "Automatic" in the Mac network settings.
So, it appears that the change to allowing for IPv6 actually requires it to be present.
Cheers,
Brian
> TextMate did switch to using IPv6 API instead of IPv4, but for me the
> above works w/o issues, I tried with TextMate listening for both local
> and remote clients, tried setting up tunnel via command line and
> ~/.ssh/config, all cases for me was a success.
>
> This is on OS X 10.8.4 using OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8x 10 May 2012
> (the one in /usr/bin) and network has an IPv4 IP (obtained via DHCP) but
> no IPv6 IP (config set to ?automitcally? which gives me no values
> for the IPv6 things in network settings).
>
> Any mismatch in environment?
In the archive I found this conversion:
>> Looking for help with language grammar. Coding in perl, and adding
>> pod (documentation) within a codeblock, pod code gets automatically
>> indented. Is there a way to have lines that begin with a = symbol
>> auto- 'out-dent'? And then any subsequent lines, before a '=cut' line
>> to be indented to match the previous line?
> I assume decrease indent only by a single unit? If so, you can make
> the line be matched by both the increase and decrease indent pattern,
> e.g.:
>
> increaseIndentPattern = '^\s*=\w+';
> decreaseIndentPattern = '^\s*=\w+';
>
> This should give the behavior. Note though that if the indent is zero
> when the cut line is used, the current build will not cause the indent
> to be increased for the following lines, but this will be fixed in
> next build.
>
> Also, we disable indent-as-you-type for source.comment, so if you
> setup useful indent patterns for the documentation blocks (which I
> assume are scoped as block comments) then it might be useful to
> re-enable indent-as-you-type:
>
> disableIndentCorrections = :false;
I am not sure, where to change these settings. In the Perl Bundle ->
Settings -> Indention? Or should I better make my own Bundle, so that
these Settings stick in case of an update?
Thanks in advance!
All my source code is on a centos virtual machine, which I access over an
AFP share.
When I have a file open in TM2, TM is not able to detect that its been
changed.
This happens often when I switch git branch.
If I open a terminal and run 'ls' on the file, at this point suddenly TM
realises its changed and reloads it.
Can anyone offer an explanation for this?
I figured maybe its some form of fstat cache kicking in, either in OSX or
due to the way the AFP share has been configured, but I cannot find any
other apps behave the same way (ie, Sublime Text detects it has changed
immediately)
Hi,
currently i don’t know why building text mate from source did not work for me.
My Setup is :
- source checked out from git with all submodules
- latest os x Maveriks 10.9.1
- neded dependencies are installed via brew
- my ninja target is TextMate/run
after clean and build from text mate i get the following error
https://gist.github.com/tfcoding/8195924
so it would be great if somebody could say why this error appears..
thx
Tim
In one of the recent updates (I think), the default behaviour when hitting
return inside a new set of braces seems to have changed.
Previously opening a pair of braces and hitting return would result in the
following:
{
// caret here
}
Now I get:
{
// caret here}
This is affecting all the grammars I commonly use - PHP, CSS, JS but
presumably is global.
Did I inadvertently change a setting somewhere or is this a change of the
default TextMate behaviour that I missed?
Either way, is there a way to return to the old behaviour? I have done a
few searches and seen some mentions in certain languages that you may be
able to build a snippet to fire on enter if the syntax supports specific
enough scoping but I'm failing to get it to work for me.
Dom
