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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I found a strange behavior that I believe is a bug. I am using 2.0-alpha.9503 on OS 10.9.1.
First I redefined the keyboard shortcut for "Comment Line" in the system Preferences. This command is from the "Source" bundle and appears as alternative shortcut to the default ⌘/ in the bundle menu (I used ⌘- in order to avoid the rather clumsy command for german keyboard layout).
Right after that both shortcuts work fine. After closing and reopening TextMate, only the default shortcut ⌘/ works, the new shortcut is now ignored.
When I select Bundles -> Source -> Comments I can see that the commands are still set correctly. After that, both shortcuts work again, until I close TextMate and open it again: the new shortcut is ignored until the menu selecting Bundles -> Source -> Comments is opened up, after that it works till closing TextMate again.
I was struggling some time with this issue, without solution. Now after testing for writing this bug report, at least there is a simple workaround. But maybe it can be resolved. I also tried changing the Bundle "Source" itself, but that didn't do the trick either.
Martin
Hi,
I came across with a rendering bug,
to reproduce it copy the following two lines and paste them into a TM document:
587 3 402 ̃ wa:w.4 NULL NULL NULL NULL
591 3 402 kha:ŋ.4 kha:w.4 NULL NULL NULL NULL
On my machine OSX 10.9.1 TM 2.0-alpha.9503 these lines are rendered as shown in that picture:
The "problem" seems to be that TM is not able to get rid of a TAB {utf8: 09} (and I believe this's true for each CONTROL character) followed by a combing diacritic - in that case a combining tilde {utf8: CC 83}. The actual data in the TM window are correct, you can e.g. look for TAB characters. If you remove the combining tilde TM renders the text correctly.
I'm aware that this is actually my fault since a combining character shouldn't appear after a control character and "more actually" I'm glad that TM had this bug thus I could find my fault ;) but I think TM should do it like other Mac apps e.g. TextEdit.
For safety reasons I attached a UTF-8 text file containing both lines.
Cheers, Hans
Is anybody else having trouble using the default "Replace Conflict With Older Text" and "Replace Conflict With Newer Text" macros? They don't seem to work for me.
If I try to record a new macro, it doesn't remember the 'replace' value. That is, it works until I run some other search/replace command then my new macro for resolving conflicts just runs the last-used replace value. The macro I recorded contains this:
(
{ argument = {
action = 'findNext';
findString = '(?m:<<<<<<<[^\n]*?\n(.*?\n?)=======\n(.*?\n?)>>>>>>>([^\n]*)\n)';
ignoreCase = :true;
regularExpression = :true;
wrapAround = :true;
};
command = 'findWithOptions:';
},
{ command = 'replaceAllInSelection:'; },
)
See, no replace value. So I added a 'replaceString' item manually:
(
{ argument = {
action = 'findNext';
findString = '(?m:<<<<<<<[^\n]*?\n(.*?\n?)=======\n(.*?\n?)>>>>>>>([^\n]*)\n)';
ignoreCase = :true;
regularExpression = :true;
wrapAround = :true;
replaceAllScope = 'document';
replaceString = '$1';
};
command = 'findWithOptions:';
},
{ command = 'replaceAllInSelection:'; },
)
But it doesn't use this value, only the last one used in the find dialog box.
Any ideas?
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Hi,
I am trying to use the Cucumber bundle with TextMate 2.0-alpha.9503:
https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-tmbundle
I am a little confused about the proper way to install it. I tried:
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Avian/
git clone https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-tmbundle Cucumber.tmbundle
But after restarting TextMate, I don’t see any indication that the bundle is loaded. I don’t know if this is because the bundle is incompatible with TextMate 2 (it was last touched over 2 years ago) or because I’m installing it wrong.
Any suggestions what to try next? Thanks,
Trevor
So I just read on slashdot about GitHub's Atom editor: http://atom.io Yay
cross platform, etc, etc, but nothing that's going to turn my head from
TextMate obviously. Nice to know that others are seeing the light,
however, right?
And then I saw this gem in its up-front feature list:
- Import TextMate grammars and themes
Oh hello there...
In my new AsciiDoc bundle, I've still got a major problem which was one of the reasons I wrote my own bundle - in other words, my attempt to solve this problem by rewriting this bundle from scratch didn't work.
The problem is manifested in various guises, but one of the main ways is that when I scroll up in a long document, the window hesitates for about a second before showing the new window-full of text.
I have come to suspect that this is because of indented soft wrapping. I do not have any indented soft wrapping, and I do not see any indented soft wrapping, and I do not *want* any indented soft wrapping, but various indications lead me to believe that other bundles are trying to impose it upon me in some contexts.
I could try to find all of these contexts and give their scopes different names, but what I would *really* like to do is shelter my main scope (text.asciidoc) from all imposed indented soft wrapping. In other words, I just want to turn this feature OFF. I believe that this will greatly assist the text window in rendering.
How do I do that? I see how to specify what indented soft wrapping *is* for some scope, but is there a setting that just says NO to all indented soft wrapping? Can I say indentedSoftWrap = :false?
(Note that I want to keep soft wrapping; this is a marked-up text bundle, so it has paragraphs that need to soft wrap. But I want to relieve the layout engine of _all_ **indented** soft wrapping, as I believe this is causing the layout engine to suffer greatly.)
Thanks - m.
PS We were just starting to talk about this in an earlier thread when I interrupted the flow, by talking about the problem of a GUI to handle things like this. But now I'm sorry I did that, because I never got to hear the answer. :)
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