Hi All,
Just a couple little usability gnats (beta 6):
1. Cutting and pasting of code pretty much always doubles the indent.
Which drives us newbies to drink for a while until we finally discover
the indent paste behavior that you can set. Does anyone have this on?
Seems like turning it off would make the better default behavior. It
would have saved me several days of swearing under my breath each time
:)
2. I noticed that the code folding actions are not in the undo stack.
Sort of a bummer. I've caught myself trying to undo a fold only to have
some change I made previous to that be undone.
Thanks,
Phil
What shortcut does a circled question mark point to? I haven't
encountered it before.. I could redefine it, but I'm just curious :-)
It shows up with the search commands
Hiding then showing the status bar can move the insertion cursor off
the bottom of the displayed document.
To reproduce:
Scroll to the end of a document, put the insertion cursor at the of a
document.
Hide Status Bar
Show Status bar
I guess it depends on where you want the status bar to 'steal its
display space. I would think you would want to avoid moving the
document which you currently do. That means 'stealing' from the top of
the display (suggested new behavior and the inverse of of what Hide
Status Bar does)). However, if the cursor is in the region to be
stolen, you should probably push it down (current behavior).
This is a just a little tip for folks who run their life in TextMate
(as I have begun to).
I have a single TextMate project in which I keep and maintain all my
todo lists, project files, reference notes, etc. I'm a bit of a
"[Getting Things Done][1]" nerd, so I admit to spending a lot of time
fiddling around with lists. :)
I've evolved a standard header that I use for most of my txt documents
that is similar to this example from my "Next Actions" (aka "to-do")
list :
## Next Actions
* _file_: "next.txt"
* _purpose_: list of next actions needed for projects
* _meta_: todo, next actions, task
Nothing too spectacular, but the little metadata line has really
started to come in handy; I now can do a "`Find in Project`" on all my
files and pick up any relevant hits--even when the term is not
expressly mentioned in a given line of text. It's a great way to bubble
up hidden content--even when it's many layers deep in the Finder.
The other, related tip, which I've mentioned before on [my site][2] is
to try and standardize your vocabulary for TODOs or anything else
you'll want to locate in a pile. I try to begin all of my TODOs with a
verb followed by a fairly detailed phrase. E.g. :
Buy propane at Albertson's
Google the best way to run DynDNS on a Linksys; how to retain links?
Email John about his site updates for Friday
This becomes really useful for GREPing a list of related topics and
even generating a new one.
TextMate has really made me want to hone my modest shell skills to
learn what it can do, because it seems pretty limitless. I'm just
starting to install a few commands that will concatenate related files
and generate these kinds of searches on the fly. I'd love to hear how
other folks are using TM and the shell for tasks outside development,
web design, etc. There's an awful of of power under that hood.
Best,
mm
[1]: http://davidco.com (David Allen Site: Home of GTD, etc.)
[2]: http://43folders.com (OS X and productivity stuff)
Out of idle curiosity (and because I use subversion a lot), how far down
the list is the proposed svn integration?
I know it's early days so I'm not nagging for it already, but I just
wondered ;)
drew.
Here's a screenshot. The vertical lines join identical levels of hierarchy
and should always be paired with a set of folding markers in the gutter (I
changed the folding icons), perhaps the joining lines could in some way also
be clickable? Im not sure about this however, I principally see it as a way
of identifying which close bracket belongs to which opening bracket over
long pieces of code that cant all fit on screen at a time.
Anyone got any other ideas?
Chris
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Hi Allan,
Not sure this is a bug or some hidden feature, so therefore the posting
here.
Just played with b7 for a few seconds, and love the improvements
overall, but found this irritation:
When you switch between tabs (open docs) your window moves to centre
the current line where the cursor happens to be. Although I can't
swear that this was not the case before, I had not noticed it, but now
I do, and it is a bit irritating.
Is there some setting hidden away somewhere or just one of those things
that will be changed in b8 ??
Hope I made myself clear ??
Kind regards,
Mats
I thing the tabs should be as they were in the first release. Clean and
just fine. Too many programs today end up with fancy bevels etc all
over the place. Keep it clean and lightweight I say.
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> On Oct 18, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Justin French wrote:
>> For what it's worth (Drew, et al), yes, I'd love to have the selected
>> tab bleed into the document, but Allan doesn't dig it, and it does
>> have some issues in regards to the colour of the document (eg Ruby's
>> black) which are a not exactly simple to work around. One day maybe
>> :)
>
> You might find something to use in Camino's take:
> <CaminoSnap001.png>
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> The selected tab bleeds into a stripe that goes across the window,
> but is still separate from the document display. This helps indicate
> "this tab is live", but doesn't war with the rendered page.
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Could there be some padding on the left side of the text? It's so
close, kind of distracting. 2-3 pixels maybe, or just even it up with
the padding on the top.
Ok, there is one nagging problem I've been having that no one has
seemed to bring up yet. What is the arrow symbol (for Shift Left and
Shift Right) equivalent to on my powerbook? I've checked the Mac help
and the symbol isn't even listed in it's Special Key guide. I've
attached a screenshot of the help page, as you can see it's not there.
I've tried every combination of keys that I can think of, but nothing
works. I have to resort to choosing it from the menu.
Thanks
Mike
