TextMate August 2020

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13 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.

5 years, 1 month

pasteboard history not showing the most recent 4.5 lines of history

by Timothy Bates

1. clear history 2. copy the digits 9:1 one at a time: EXPECTED: 1:9 timeline OBTAINED: the list won’t scroll above line 5 OS = Big Sur beta2 11.0 Beta (20A5323l)

5 years, 1 month

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.

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TextMate August 2020