TextMate November 2016

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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, 2 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, 2 months

Go to current file doesn't always scroll the file browser

by Igor Kozlov

Sometimes when I'm working on a project and jump between branches TM suddenly stops scrolling to the current file when I press "Go to current file" (⌃⌘R) even though the file gets selected. This is happening for a few months already. I usually fix this by restarting TM, but it's not the best workaround since I lose all the undo history. Am I the only one getting this? Or I'm just the only one getting annoyed by this?

7 years, 12 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

Reopening windows in the same desktop after relaunch

by Mojca Miklavec

Hello, I absolutely love the feature introduced in TM 2 with Lion: being able to reopen all the windows [1] after any expected or unexpected events (rebooting, upgrading, crashes, ...). What I miss in TextMate though is reopening the windows in the same desktop where they were before closing the app. I often have up to 100 files opened at the same time, spread across a number of desktops and I only reboot the OS about once in a month. But after every reboot or TM upgrade, I need to sort the windows manually again which is a bit annoying. Terminal windows open in exactly the same desktop where they were closed, the web browser (Chrome) sadly doesn't respect that, about other software I don't care. I would really love it if TextMate would remember in which desktop the windows were last opened and reproduce the exact state after relaunch. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement that change though. What do others think about it? Should I enter the feature request in the tracker? Thank you, Mojca [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204005

8 years, 10 months

LaTeX Tidy and code folding with \labels

by Robert Milton

Hi guys, I guess this is primarily of interest to Rene Schwaiger. A long time ago we discussed LaTeX Tidy, \labels and code folding. I love everything about LaTex Tidy except for the fact that it puts \labels on a separate line to \begin or \end, so when I use code folding all I see is a list of \begins, \ends, \sections and the like, without a \label in sight. Rene pointed me to latextidy.pl, which was the help I needed, and I hacked the file so the code now ends $string =~ s/({[^}]*}[ \t]*)(\n[ \t]*)((\[[^\]]*\][ \t]*)*(\\label[ \t]*(\[[^\]]*\][ \t]*)*{[^}]*}[ \t]*)*)\n?[ \t]*/$1$3$2/mg; $string =~ s/((\\label[ \t]*(\[[^\]]*\][ \t]*)*{[^}]*}[ \t]*)+)(\n[ \t]*)(\\end{[^}]*})/$4$1$5/mg; $string =~ s/(\\section.*(\\label[ \t]*(\[[^\]]*\][ \t]*)*{[^}]*}[ \t]*))(\S)/$1\n$4/mg; $string =~ s/(?<=\S)[ \t]*(?:\n[ \t]*){0,2}(\\section)/\n\n\n$1/mg; $string =~ s/(?<=\S)[ \t]*(?:\n[ \t]*){0,1}(\\subsection)/\n\n$1/mg; print $string; I’ve been using this for a while now and it has proved fairly reliable. I’ve allowed for optional arguments on \labels, labels pinned to \end (for captioned environments), and insert blank lines before \sections and \subsections. Now when I code fold I see not just the environments but their \labels, which mean something to me. This message is intended in the spirit of giving back. Please feel free to ignore this hack, or try it out, change it, whatever. Regards Robert Milton

9 years, 11 months

Occasional performance hickups when editing, possibly my own fault. Any obvious way to profile TM performance?

by Bert Zangle

Hey I'm occasionally experiencing smaller performance hickups in TM. Writing a line of code, there's a short delay before the input appears; delay is maybe in the range of half a second. It's infrequent enough not to be really bothersome, but ideally, I'd like to know the cause. It could in fact be some (too expensive) regexes I defined in my customized language grammars, but I can't say for sure right now. That's why I was wondering: is there a relatively simple way I can profile TM/TM processes, in order to find out if it is in fact my own grammar rules causing these hickups, or if it's something else? -- View this message in context: http://textmate.1073791.n5.nabble.com/Occasional-performance-hickups-when-e… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

9 years, 11 months

Menu bug (?) with "Open Recent"

by Erik Neumann

I often see in my "Open Recent" menu the full path to a file and the same file is repeated several times in the menu. It makes the menu quite large and a bit hard to read. See attached screenshot. In this case I had just created a new text file and saved to it about a dozen times.[image: Inline image 1]

9 years, 11 months

Autocomplete keyboard shortcut

by Josh Lubaway

Hello, Is there a keyboard shortcut for autocomplete other than escape? Or is there a way to remap the autocomplete keyboard shortcut? Thanks, Josh

9 years, 11 months

A problem with typesetting with skim

by Tao Zha

Dear All: I am unable to typeset a latex file using the latest TextMate version with Skim. I can typeset the text file first time, but cannot typeset it with subsequent changes to the text file. Can you help me resolve this obvious bug? Thanks, Tao

9 years, 11 months

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