TextMate July 2015

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25 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.

6 years, 3 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.

6 years, 3 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!

8 years

Yosemite view effects

by Igor K

Looks like Yosemite exposes NSVisualEffectView class for those fancy translucency and blur effects https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documentation/Foundation… <https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documentation/Foundation…> I understand that I probably rush things up a bit, but are there any plans to support those in near future?

10 years

crashing on launch

by Rob McBroom

I tried to open a folder in TextMate today (one I open often) and it crashed. (It was already running, as always.) Ever since, I’ve been unable to get it to launch. It detects the crash and asks about restoring open documents. It crashes no matter what I choose there. I haven’t changed any preferences or bundles or installed any updates today. I’ve tried: * `defaults delete com.macromates.TextMate.preview.LSSharedFileList` * `defaults delete com.macromates.TextMate.preview` * `mv ~/.tm_properties ~/foo` * trashed `~/Library/Saved Application State/com.macromates.TextMate.preview.savedState` * trashed `~/Library/Caches/com.macromates.TextMate.preview` * restored `~/Library/Applicaiton Support/Avian` and `TextMate` from a backup taken this morning * downloaded the app again from the web site * tried an older version (beta 7.3) * rebooting, like a poor beleaguered Windows user The only thing that *did* work was launching it as a different user, so it’s something with my account, but what’s left? I haven’t tried deleting all my bundles, but from the dates, I don’t think any have changed since March. From the crash log: Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libsystem_platform.dylib 0x00007fff94e40331 _platform_memmove$VARIANT$Ivybridge + 49 1 com.macromates.TextMate.OakTextView 0x000000010f92dfe1 oak::callbacks_t<ng::callback_t, false>::remove(ng::callback_t*) + 105 2 com.macromates.TextMate.OakTextView 0x000000010f8feeea -[OakTextView setDocument:] + 437 3 com.macromates.TextMate.OakTextView 0x000000010f8f0584 -[OakDocumentView setDocument:] + 643 4 com.macromates.TextMate.OakTextView 0x000000010f8f01f4 -[OakDocumentView dealloc] + 457 5 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff9676389c objc_object::sidetable_release(bool) + 236 6 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff96749e8f (anonymous namespace)::AutoreleasePoolPage::pop(void*) + 575 7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93a6b6f2 _CFAutoreleasePoolPop + 50 8 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff89f13762 -[NSAutoreleasePool drain] + 153 9 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff89f2d5cc _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 121 10 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff8d45934c aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned int, unsigned char*) + 531 11 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff8d4590c9 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 31 12 com.apple.AE 0x00007fff8d458fd3 aeProcessAppleEvent + 295 13 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff90935c6e AEProcessAppleEvent + 56 14 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8e357da2 _DPSNextEvent + 2249 15 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8e356e58 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 346 16 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8e34caf3 -[NSApplication run] + 594 17 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8e2c9244 NSApplicationMain + 1832 18 com.macromates.TextMate.preview 0x000000010f533f19 main + 840 19 com.macromates.TextMate.preview 0x000000010f51e914 start + 52 Thanks! -- Rob McBroom http://www.skurfer.com/

10 years, 5 months

Problem with SQL Bundle

by Hooman Javidnia

Hello, I have a local mysql database that I try to connect to from Textmate 2.0. When I define the connection setting in configuration dialog, and try to submit to query, I get this error message: undefined method `force_encoding' for # I am on Mac OS X 10.11 and I installed the latest sql bundle from Github. All that I have found are about Ruby and nothing specifically about SQL bundle. Any suggestion on how to fix this problem? Best, Hooman

10 years, 9 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

10 years, 10 months

Strange highlighting for Ruby embedded in Markdown

by Stefan Daschek

I added support for fenced code blocks to the Markdown bundle as described in https://github.com/textmate/markdown.tmbundle/issues/15#issuecomment-183219… Then I added “meta.embedded_ruby” to the as injection scope selector to the Ruby grammar. The result kind of works, but somehow the rule priority seems to get mixed up (see screenshot). Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks, Stefan.

11 years

jump back to previous location

by Matt Neuburg

I have a feature suggestion. I've thought about this for years but it has only just occurred to me to say something about it. As you know, I use TextMate to write books. Big books with big chapters. So it often happens that I edit a chapter, then jump to an earlier / later bit of that same chapter to make some change entailed by what I was just writing. Now I want to "go back" to where I was before. That's the suggestion. TextMate should _automatically_ maintain "bookmarks" for the location of the two most recent edit locations (places where I actually typed or deleted text). Thus, I could use the bookmarks feature to jump back to where I was before. Just an idea. (A really great idea!) m. -- matt neuburg, phd = http://www.apeth.net/matt/ pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei Programming iOS 7! http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031017.do iOS 7 Fundamentals! http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032465.do RubyFrontier! http://www.apeth.com/RubyFrontierDocs/default.html

11 years, 2 months

How to use TM/TM2 as an external editor to TeXShop?

by Martin Wilhelm Leidig

Hi *, I’d like to use TM and TM2 (or at least one of them) with my custom TeXShop engines. By including a shebang-like line in the first line of the input, e.g., > --- > %!TEX TS-program = pdflatex > --- one tells TM to use pdflatex; but there is no way to tell it to use, say, my ho-dtxmk engine (which processes DTX files using Heiko Oberdiek’s (ho) extracting/documentation wizardry). So, is there a way to have TM[2] run TeXShop as the typesetting engine when I push Cmd-R instead of running the tex binaries directly, thus functioning as the external editor in TeXShop? Regards from Ladenburg, -MWL- -- Martin Wilhelm Leidig, SatzTeXnik — Dante e.V. #1580 Professional TeXing and TeXnical counselling

11 years, 3 months

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