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.
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.
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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!
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
I've seen various editors which can parse CSS or SASS files for rgb color
variables and then show the font in the same color
Is there any bundle which is able to do this for textmate?
I'm not entirely sure the bundle API is able to support such a feature.
If not, could it be done with a plugin?
When I use the CMT+T File Chooser, I type "webapi" to open lib/webapi.js,
but on hitting enter, it actually opens lib/socket.js
Likewise trying to open socket.js, opens bot.js
Strangely it is even opening the wrong file when I dblclick from the File
Browser on the left.
Some files do still open correctly.
I like the new feature in v2.0-beta.11.10 where targeted settings for
untitled files use file patterns that match the file's directory. It does
not, however, seem to pick up the fileType setting.
Would be nice to specify that new files created in various directories in
the project each have a given fileType based on their location.
Hi there,
I'm a researcher studying software evolution. As part of my current
research, I'm studying the implications of open-sourcing a proprietary
software, for instance, if the project succeed in attracting newcomers.
However, I observed that some projects, like _textmate_, deleted their
software history.
https://github.com/textmate/textmate/commit/9894969e677c39007c2860f09e3f823…
Knowing that software history is indispensable for developers (e.g.,
developers need to refer to history several times a day), I would like to
ask textmate developers the following four brief questions:
1. Why did you decide to not keep the software history?
2. Do the core developers faced any kind of problems, when trying to refer
to the old history? If so, how did they solve these problems?
3. Do the newcomers faced any kind of problems, when trying to refer to the
old history? If so, how did they solve these problems?
4. How does the lack of history impacted on software evolution? Does it
placed any burden in understanding and evolving the software?
Thanks in advance for your collaboration,
Gustavo Pinto, PhD
http://www.gustavopinto.org
Hi guys
I wanted to know if there was a way in Textmate to do a find and replace on text files generated as a youtube transcript. These are text files downloaded containing the closed captioning text.
The time stamp lines are formatted with quasi timecode as start,end: 0:00:10.100,0:00:11.191
So there would be a line of timecode, then 1 or more lines of text, then a blank line, and then it starts over again on a new line with the next timecode start.
Also, if there is a way to remove white space after commas, but keep sentences in tact, that would save heaps of time.
These transcript files are long, and are taken from videos that are 25minutes to 1 hour duration, so doing it manually would be hell. At least if there is an easy way to strip out this stuff, manually separating paragraphs would be pretty fast.
Any advice is welcomed.
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