TextMate August 2014

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23 discussions

by Martin Hess

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.

5 years, 4 months

Auto-highlight all occurrences of selected word

by Kelvin Wu

TextMate 1 or 2, is there a way to auto-highlight all occurrences of selected word? I was from Windows using EditPlus, when I double-click or Ctrl+W to select a word, EditPlus is able to automatically highlight all occurrences in a different background colour, very nice and useful feature. With TextMate I have to additionally hit Opt+Cmd+F, and highlighting colour is same as selected word, not eye-catching. I use 'soft' and light background for selection background but I prefer bright background (eg yellow) for highlighted words. Ctr-S not really meets what I need. Thanks. -- Sent from my mobile. Ignore the typos unless they're funny.

5 years, 4 months

Question about indentation

by Peter Rando

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!

7 years, 2 months

Creating a global variable via bundle command (using Python)

by Michele Pasin

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

9 years, 11 months

Code fold guides

by Spiros Philopoulos

Hi all, Are there any plans to add code fold guides to TextMate 2 (as shown here: http://darwinsantos.com/sublime_screen.png)? I know a workaround to get a similar effect is to use "Show Invisible Characters". Though the problem with this is that a lot of files written by others lack proper tab indentation. Any other workarounds to get a similar effect? Many thanks, S.P.

10 years, 10 months

Compiling LaTeX log window

by holene

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. -- Holene -- View this message in context: http://textmate.1073791.n5.nabble.com/Compiling-LaTeX-log-window-tp25794.ht… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

10 years, 11 months

Syntax color for fortran storage modifier

by riki

Fortran storage modifiers do not appear with colours although they have set to this in the used TextMate theme and language grammar. In my custom theme, I have set { name = 'Storage'; scope = 'storage, storage.type, storage.modifier'; settings = { fontStyle = 'bold'; foreground = '#003366'; }; which is clearly directing syntax colour for storage, storage type, and storage modifier. In Fortran bundle, the grammar of Modern Fortran contains information of storage modifiers { name = 'storage.modifier.fortran.modern'; match = '\b(?i:(kind|len|optional|recursive|pointer|allocatable|target|private|public))\b'; }, Any idea how to get syntax colors for storage modifiers in a Fortran code? I have tried but did not get success.

11 years, 3 months

Where do I update the definition of a word?

by Pedro Melo

Hi, using the Perl gramar, if I have the cursor on a package name, like Time::Mo|ment, (| is the cursor) and I try to get help, it should try to get help on Time::Moment but right now it only uses Moment. I had this problem with TM1 also but I fixed it by including : in the definition of the "word". I don't know if this is still the way to do it on TM2 or if there is a better way. Suggestions? Thanks, -- Pedro Melo @pedromelo http://www.simplicidade.org/ xmpp:melo@simplicidade.org mailto:melo@simplicidade.org

11 years, 3 months

Latex Typeset and View new failure

by Andrew Jaffe

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

11 years, 3 months

Saving tab settings for a file.

by Curt Sellmer

Is there a way to have TextMate remember the tab settings for a specific file? I seem to recall that TextMate 1 did this. I have a file with a .txt extension that I would like to always be set to indent size 2 with soft tabs. In my default .tm_properties file I have the a [ text.plain ] section that sets the defaults to 8 and no soft tabs so I assume that this is why the file is always opened with these settings. I would like to make this one file an exception, but it is not part of any particular "project" just a one off file. I suppose I could add an entry in my default .tm_properties file for each specific exception to the rule, but was hoping there might be a way that wouldn't involve this. Thanks.

11 years, 3 months

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TextMate August 2014