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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Is there a way to make * include hidden files in Find All dialog?
Currently I have to use {.*,*} to get the needed result but it's not very convenient to type that every time I do a search.
Another nice little tweak would be to search * instead of using the last glob pattern when you leave the glob field empty. And even better would be to make this default pattern configurable. That way I could've just emptied the glob field when I want to search {.*,*}
Thanks.
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?
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 recently upgraded to State 15 and am using an older Stata bundle that worked with Stata 14. I am trying to understand how to make Textmate 2 run Stata 15 from within the Stata bundle, but am having trouble figuring it out.
Looking at the code, TextMate appears to start with a list taken from
“Find in Folder Globs.default”, which doesn’t exist, so it falls
back to hard-coded defaults.
I find myself adding the same patterns to almost every project so I’d
like to change the defaults.
Is there a way to set that via `.tm_properties` or do I just have to add
a key named “default” to `com.macromates.TextMate.plist` manually?
Thanks.
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http://www.skurfer.com/
Hi,
This week I installed Textmate 2.0 beta, and I am still learning a lot. One of the things I found myself wishing for was the ability to change some features of the themes I found most to my liking. Google got me to pages such as this (https://manual.macromates.com/en/themes <https://manual.macromates.com/en/themes>), referencing "Preferences → Fonts & Colors”, which I can’t find in Textmate; perhaps the manual does not apply to the version I installed?
Is there any (GUI-based much preferred) way of building a theme (modifying an existing one) in my installation? If not, should I perhaps uninstall Textmate and install an earlier version? If so, which?
Thank you.
Nicolae
I know it’s hard to keep old webpages up but it would be helpful if a banner could be put up on the TM 1 pages with a link to TextMate 2 info. The linked page looks “official,” so even more important. I’m far from a power user and am discouraged from exploring TM when I run into these pages without knowing which version they apply to.
Near top of page might be something like: “This page is about TextMate version 1. For TextMate 2 documents check <here> For the status TextMate 1 and 2 read< here>.” Probably should be stuck to top of page in case the link puts someone part way down the page.
> On Jul 22, 2017, at 6:00 AM, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com wrote:
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>> (https://manual.macromates.com/en/themes <https://manual.macromates.com/en/themes> <https://manual.macromates.com/en/themes <https://manual.macromates.com/en/themes>>), referencing "Preferences ? Fonts & Colors?, which I can?t find in Textmate; perhaps the manual does not apply to the version I installed?
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> That link applies to TextMate 1.
