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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Hi all,
As of only very recently, I get the following drop-down error box when I
try to typeset a LaTeX document:
| Failure running "Typeset & View (PDF)".
|
| Typeset & View (PDF):4: undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass
(NoMethodError)
I think it was working until 1-2 updates ago.
Andrew
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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I would like to use Open Favorite more frequently but there’s a couple of things that always throws me off and makes it less productive for me. Not sure if they’re bugs or by design.
Say I have 4 favourites named F1, F2, F3, F4
I usually have multiple working windows open with the root folder being one of these favourites. So say I have 2 opened with favourites F1 and F2 and files opened in each.
Now I would like to open a third window with the root folder being F1 because there’s an unrelated feature or bug that doesn’t have anything to do with the files being edited in the first F1 project. (i.e. I would like to segregate and keep track of the files being worked on by using 2 different windows).
So I Shift-Cmd-O to bring up the Open Favorite popup and select one of the favourites and this is what happens:
In the latest nightly build, a new window opens and fills with a selection of open files from F1. This is actually new behaviour that I see when writing up this email. Could be it’s opening up some previously cached version of a F1 window?
In previous builds what happens is that the original F1 comes to the front.
What I was hoping is that a new window opens with the root folder being the favourite I selected.
Ed Wong
All of a sudden Textmate Version 1.5.11 (1635) stopped compiling LaTeX files. Comes back with the error:
javac: invalid flag: /Users/wgibson/Mexico/TMP.tex
I have been using it successfully under Mavericks for quite a few months and then…nothing.
Tried TM 2 and the same thing…won’t compile
Failure running typeset and view…
Typeset & View (PDF):4: undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
So I am trying the new MacTeX 2013 distribution…
Any thoughts?
Many thanks. BG
