TextMate February 2016

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32 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.

4 years, 8 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.

4 years, 8 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!

6 years, 5 months

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?

8 years, 6 months

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/

8 years, 10 months

Use comments to mark sections (and indented folding vs marker-based folding)

by JiHO

Hi everyone, I want to fold the following 'code' # Section 1 ---- for (i in 1:30) { y = i+1 } # Section 2 ---- # a comment x = y + 1 y = y^2 if (foo) { a = b for (j in 1:3) { b = b + 1 } } # Section 3 ---- b = c to fold in the following way: - "sections" in the code are defined by #something----, everything between two section titles should fold when the folding marker of the title line is clicked - blocks are defined with { (and a few other markers) and should fold as expected. With the following rules I can almost make it work { foldingStartMarker = '\{'; foldingStopMarker = '\}'; foldingIndentedBlockStart = '^#(.*?)\-{4,}'; foldingIndentedBlockIgnore = '^(?!#(.*?)\-{4,})'; } the blocks fold, respecting nesting, the sections fold up to the next section, *except* for section 1; there, the `for` block is not indented and is at the same level as the section, therefore folding at section 1 only folds until the start of the for block, not all the way down to section 2. It looks like I am searching for a way to the `foldingIndentedBlock` rule to take precedence over the `foldingStartMarker` rule. Is it possible? To make it easy to take a stab at it, I created a new bundle and a test file (the language is "testing") which you can get there: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1047321/Test.zip PS: having comments which define sections in the code seems like a general use case. The syntax is in that particular example is defined in the R language by the RStudio IDE. This IDE is becoming common enough that I am receiving code formatted this way a lot. Thanks in advance for your help!

9 years

Suggestion: UI distinguishing light and dark themes

by dipnlik

Hi, Today I wanted to try a new theme and noticed that the theme menu only lists the theme's name, so I had to try them all, which is expected. My issue is that I already knew I wanted a light theme, because I like them better. I just asked around and at least with the small sample of people around me, they already know if they prefer light themes or dark themes. It looks like themes are already identified as light or dark via their Semantic Class, so my suggestion is to include this distinction in the UI somehow. I know this is not something the user will do frequently, but I think this improvement will cut the time to select a new theme roughly by half. -- :: dip --

9 years, 1 month

Is it possible to disable/hide the gutter in TextMate 2?

by vasko.dinkov

Is it possible to disable/hide the gutter in TextMate 2? My version is 2.0-beta.8.5 Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://textmate.1073791.n5.nabble.com/Is-it-possible-to-disable-hide-the-gu… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

9 years, 1 month

Avoid Textmate hanging on opening large single-line xml files

by Bas Van Klinkenberg

Hi, Is there a way to break, speed up or otherwise avoid Textmate from (temporary) hanging when opening a large file without line breaks (for example a large xml or json file without line breaks)? It would’ve been nice if each window or tab ran independently from eachother, at least the one hanging window wouldn’t stop me from working… I’m waiting on a beachballing Textmate right now trying to open a 4,5MB xml file… In comparison, the finder preview (cmd-I) opens and shows the file in under a second… syntax coloured and all… Best regards, Bas

9 years, 1 month

How to put the cursor at the top of a document

by Gary Ash

Hello, I’m working on textmate 2 command that will process data from a file and insert some some information into the activate textmate document I’ve got the bulk of the job working pretty well except I’d like to ensure the data is allows added to the top of the file. Can anyone tell me how to ensure the cursor is at the top of the document before I insert my data? Thanks for any help Gary

9 years, 1 month

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TextMate February 2016