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?
This list has become somewhat painful to read because the email threading is not working properly. For example Allan's responses almost always break threading. MailMate problem? Something else? Can we fix this pretty please?
Thanks
Gerd
I created a snippet for graphviz for subgraphs as follows:
subgraph cluster_${1/[[:alpha:]]+|( )/(?1:_:\L$0)/g} {
style = filled;
bgcolor = lightgrey;
$0
label = "$1"
}
With it in TM1, I can quickly create snippets such as:
subgraph cluster_subgraph_label {
style = filled;
bgcolor = lightgrey;
label = "Subgraph Label"
}
In TM1, after expanding the snippet, the cursor moves to the 'label = "$1"'
location of the $1 placeholder. However, in TM2, the cursor jumps up to the
subgraph_cluster_ line, where I'm unable to take advantage of the text
transformation there. I guess this would work if reworked the
transformation to be on second $1, but wanted to know what the consistent
behavior is or will be.
Thank you for your help.
Hi,
I want to create a snippet which takes takes the filename, removes the extension and converts the remaining string to uppercase, i.e. "filename.txt" -> "FILENAME".
So far I have ended up with
${TM_FILENAME/(.*)[.](.*)/\u$1/g},
but the \u only converts the first character of the string to uppercase, i.e. I get "Filename". Is there any way to convert the whole string to uppercase?
Regards,
Carsten
I trying to make a regular expression to find ³this is a test² is the
following string:
<a href="index.cfm?action=search.listings&test=6&view=names">this is
a test</a>
This is the regular expression:
(?<=.+).+(?=</a>)
The regular expression is not matching anything. Is there something I¹m
doing wrong here or does TextMate not support the regular expression flavour
I¹m trying to use?
Thanks
Ross
