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by Sune Foldager

I know this could be a point of much controversy, but I encourage people to avoid "top quoting" i.e. having a long quote of sometimes the entire email you want to comment on, and then putting comments underneath. I don't like "bottom quoting" much either, although it does have the advantage that you don't have to scroll a few pages to read the mail... ideally, snip out relevant parts and quote on those. It's probasbly not difficult for most people to go back to the mail being refered to and check, if further depth is needed. -- Sune. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" http://cyanite.org -- Content follows ;-).

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[TextMate] Feature - managing the snippets

by profprof＠mac.com

Just a proposal regarding the snippets. It would be most useful if the snippets were only active when their respective mode is active. This way, the same trigger could be used for various modes and applications. For example, the trigger "table" being already used for html, it cannot be currently used for Latex. However, if the triggers were tied to a mode, we could use the same trigger, simplifying our lifes. Greetings, Normand Mousseau

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[TextMate] Found a cool replacement icon

by Luc Heinrich

Yo, I have found a cool replacement icon for my TextMate while browsing through my icon collection, check it out: I like it not only because it looks pretty cool, bet also because it contains the elements of TextMate spirit: text (the pen) and automation (the LEDs). It's part of the "World of Aqua 4" pack from the geniuses at IconFactory. You can also find the following one in the "World of Aqua 3" pack, but it's looking more obvious and boring I think ;) -- Luc Heinrich - lucsky(a)mac.com - http://www.honk-honk.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] LaTeX Bundle merge

by Eric Hsu

I hope Gaetan Le Guelvouit, Andrew Ellis and Normand Mousseau are on the list, as they are the primary contributors to the LaTeX bundle. (I am a minor contributor.) Can somebody volunteer to merge all the changes into the One True LaTeX Bundle? Fixes to Do 1. I think GLG's fork missed some of Ellis's contributions, including his heretical Send to iTeXMac; 2. the last bundle posted by NM broke my Open in TexShop command open -a TexShop "$TM_FILEPATH" Note the path has to be quoted or it will break on systems with spaces in their path; 3. $ \Pi $ and $ \Pi $ are highlighted differently. That seems wrong. It's pretty cool that people are contributing in this way! If we can coordinate a little bit, it will be even more powerful. - Eric ps. Why don't I just merge the thing? I'm going on the road for a week... -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Problem opening .as files

by Chris Jenkins

I have noticed that the latest beta cannot open actionscript files with a .as extension in a project, this is because .as is missing from the Info.plist list of recognised extensions - oops! ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] [REGEX] move to Uppercase/Lowercase

by jose.campos+tm＠galacsys.com

Hi All, The whole question is in the title ;-) : What is the syntax to be used in Find/Replace dialog to move text to Upper- or Lower- case? there was such a feature in BBEdit, but could not find it in TextMate. Find : <.+?> Replace : lowercase($0) Thanks, -- Jo <W:00°04'37" ; N:47°15'36"> 1....'....12.....'....24.....'....36.....'....48.....'....60.....'....72

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Handling file extensions

by Jarkko Laine

I installed Lars Pind's OpenACS bundle (http://pinds.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=20990) and started playing around with it a bit. I noticed that for some reason TM can't open the files (with extensions adp, tcl and xql) from the project drawer. With normal open command they opened nicely. I fixed this by adding the extensions to Info.plist file in TextMate application folder, but I fear it gets replaced when upgrading. Besides, I guess there's (or should be) a way a bundle developer could add file extensions TextMate (with a given bundle) can handle. Any pointers on how to obtain this? TIA, Jarkko -- Jarkko Laine http://jlaine.net

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] The find window

by Chris Jenkins

Im a big fan of BBEdit (or at least I used to be), one of the things I liked was the option to search for "Whole words only" in the find dialog, now I know I could do this with a bit of regex, but it would be nice to have that option as a simple checkbox. What would also be very cool is for TextMate to remember previous searches you have done (like the Google field in Safari) so you can retrieve those painstakingly written regex search and replace strings! ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Tooltips in drawer

by Chris Jenkins

Im sure others have noticed this but Im finding the tooltips in the drawer a real pain in the arse, they appear when I don't want them to, cover stuff up and wont go away when I point at something new in the list. I know Allan mentioned that the individual items arent individually "hitable" but I think this needs some improvement. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Non-supported files

by Rob Bevan

Whilst preventing TextMate from opening non-supported files is welcome (change in b4): > TextMate will only open files from the project drawer if their > extension is found in the Info.plist, or if they have no extension > (hidden files like .htaccess are considered to have no extension). This now prevents me from running commands on the file selected in the project drawer, as $TM_FILEPATH is the frontmost _open_ file. (I have a 'Test Movie in Flash' command as part of my ActionScript bundle, now broken, to be run on .fla files in my project). Any chance you could add another variable, e.g. $TM_SELECTEDFILE or something, so we can access these? Also, why not allow these non-supported files to be opened by the Finder when double-clicking them? And having a Open with Finder command as well as a Reveal in Finder command?

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Gutter and folding

by Philipf

Hello, I've noticed that disabling Gutter -> Folding also disables the folding functionality, and there is no way to turn it back on. I think these to should be controlled separately. For me the small three-dots icon is sufficient for folding control. In any case that's a bit counterintuitive. Gutter submenu is supposed to control the gutter only and not the general behavior. --- Philipf

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Info.plist

by Rob Bevan

> TextMate will only open files from the project drawer if their > extension is found in the Info.plist, or if they have no extension > (hidden files like .htaccess are considered to have no extension). Can you add 'as' for ActionScript to the default list of supported file types in Info.plist? Thanks.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Re: Perl Module Extension

by Eric Hsu

>Need to add the .pm extension into the plist for perl modules. (Same >goes for the authors of the two perl syntax bundles) Good point. Updated, along with "Send to Affrus" command and "Perldoc Search" command, where you highlight a word and get a window of perldoc -f information. <http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu/textmate> - Eric -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Perl Module Extension

by Michael Sheets

Need to add the .pm extension into the plist for perl modules. (Same goes for the authors of the two perl syntax bundles)

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Syntax Question: Including HTML in PHP syntax

by Mats Persson

I am trying to make sure that HTML code inside a PHP file is correctly highlighted, but is unsure about how to do it. Example: <?php function PrintHtml( ) { ?>  <p>This is HTML</p> <?php } ?> I understand that the syntax is as follows, but I don't know what the 'begin' and 'end' tags should be. name = "Embedded HTML"; begin = "???????????"; end = "??????????????"; patterns = ( { include = "HTML"; } ); If anyone can help, I'd be grateful. Kind regards, Mats

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Editing macros

by jose.campos+tm＠galacsys.com

Hi Allan (and others:), Recording and saving macros is great, editing macros is even greater. With commands like "pastePrevious:" and "pasteNext:" we can do a lot of work. But we have to record and edit a lot of macros to find all available commands. So, to spare us time, will you publish the commands list? Thanks, -- 4 Jo 3 2 1....'....12.....'....24.....'....36.....'....48.....'....60.....'....72

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] [Moderator] Don't use 'reply' for new letters

by Allan Odgaard

It would be preferred if people would write a new letter to this list, rather than reply to an old one, when the content is new -- I know it requires one to fill in the To-header, but when replying to an old letter, it screws up the threading. Kind regards Allan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Ruby syntax coloring glitch

by Ollivier Robert

I just noticed that the coloration for "def" is a bit overeager, see attached snapshot. Look for "def_port". -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto(a)keltia.freenix.fr Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.5.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Smart folder in project?

by Chris Jenkins

Im guessing from the other discussions floating around that there is some way to make "smart" folders in the project drawer, most likely using regex matches on filenames, but I am unclear exactly how to do this, perhaps someone could enlighten me? ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Project Drawer Keys

by Allan Odgaard

I don't think this made it to any of the documentation: When the project drawer has key focus, you can press 'space' to activate rename, and return to open the selected file (this should probably be supplemented by cmd-down as in Finder). To activate rename with the mouse, hold down option while clicking the item (or use the context menu). The reason why groups cannot be double clicked to activate rename (as some have requested) is that I plan to do it more like Finder in the future, so that double clicking a group will enter that group, and make the project drawer only show the files contained in the group (there'll be a back button of course). Kind regards Allan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Project containing files on a remote disk - bug?

by Andre Posumentov

Hi, Probably unfair to call the following a bug - as it's behaviour that seems correct in the context of a purely local filesystem. However, it can catch you out if your Project contains references to remote files. It went like this: 1/. Create a deeply nested Project file, consisting solely of pointers to files on a remote disk (mounted via SMB). 2/. Do work, close Project file. 3/. Eject the SMB drive. Go to lunch, or whatever. 4/. Return from whatever and reopen the Project file - forgetting to remount the remote disk first ... 5/. Gaze in silent horror at the empty Project. On start-up, TM silently deletes all unresolveable file references from the Project, leaving only the Groups that you have created. Any laboriously constructed filter definitions are deleted too, of course. TM immediately writes the revised Project file back to disk, making sure that you can't recover from your mistake. Might it be an idea to have TM pop up a warning - if it detects that a remote volume has disappeared? On a machine left idle for any length of time, 'sleep' can cause remote volumes to eject themselves - so I guess TM would need to check this periodically, and not just at start-up. Cheers, -- Andre

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Coloured labels in Project Drawer

by Drew McLellan

I put a feature request for this on the wiki, but I thought it was probably worth shouting out here too. It would be really great if labels applied in the Finder (you know, the colour-coded blob things) were shown in the Project Drawer. I use labels to mark the most important files and folders in my web apps, and being able to make use of this in TM would be *fantastic*. Cheers. drew.

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[TextMate] Wrap column problem(s)

by Luc Heinrich

Yo, I was playing with TM, trying to find some nits to pick and found the "View -> Wrap Column -> Other" thingy :) The default wrap width is at 78, and I usually use 80, so I went to change this and selected the previously mentioned menu item. I was expecting some sort of dialog or sheet, but saw nothing. Worse, the 'View' menu was still highlighted so I immediately thought that something wrong was happening and/or that TM was stuck or about to crash. When something like this happens in an application, I have this pavlovian habit to agitate the mouse a bit to see if the spinning pizza of death shows up, before I just kill the app. But this time it helped to see that, oooooh, something was actually hapenning IN the current text window: setting the wrap width is done using an "in-place interactive bar"... I see three usability problems with this: - The obvious one, which I mentioned in my (unnecessary verbose) introduction is that unless you already know how it works, you have no freakin' clue what happens after you select the "Other" menu item. - You can't modify the wrap width when no window is open. - And now try that in a window using one of those syntax which have the infamous black background, and see how far the confusion can get... :> Sorry, I'm a natural born nitpicker ;) -- Luc Heinrich - lucsky(a)mac.com - http://www.honk-honk.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] monaco font readability

by kumar mcmillan

I am not sure if I should put this in as a feature request... There is a very very nice feature (or possibly quirk?) to the text library that SubEthaEdit and BBEdit are built on. When you adjust the font size for Monaco down to "9" then it loses its fuzziness and "snaps" into pixel-perfect, fixed-width readability. I don't know why this happens but TextMate doesn't do it. If I turn font smoothing off for size 9 and lower, TextMate makes Monaco pixelated and crisper, but it does not look fixed-width (i.e. it's slightly squished together for some letters and not very easy to read). I know this seems trivial, but staring at code all day is hard enough on the eyes as it is, yet the SubEtha/BBEdit font rendering is much more scannable. Any ideas of settings adjustments I can try? thanks, kumar

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] folding keyboard shortcut

by M Spreij

Is the shortcut for "View -> Fold Current Block", F1, editable? I couldn't find it in the KeyBindings.dict file. Regards, Martin

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Syntax plists

by Jeroen van der Ham

Hi, While creating my syntax plist for python I ran into two things: - Is it possible to activate a syntax mode without restarting TextMate? - Is there a syntax highlighter for plists yet ? :) Jeroen.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Exclude .svn in the default folder pattern?

by Drew McLellan

As CVS is excluded by default, shouldn't we exclude .svn too? drew.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Project file drawer

by Phil Aaronson

Hi All, I seem to be locked in a battle of wills with the project file drawer (for lack of a better name). I remove references to sub-directories and files, and well, the file drawer puts them back in. Repeat. Repeat. Swear, and give round one to TextMate. Anyone else battling with the drawer? I got into this test of wills by dragging and dropping a directory tree that looked like: YYYY/MM and then removing references to a few YYYY/MM/img directories and the occasional pdf file. Well, "removing" them very temporarily :) Thanks, Phil

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Re: Problem with UTF8 encoding

by Allan Odgaard

On 13. Oct 2004, at 12:50, Dominique PERETTI wrote: > - If you reopen in TextMate, it stills appear as UTF8... BUT if you > reopen it in BBEdit, it opens as a MacRoman file (with accents wrong). I don't have BBEdit, but I think BBEdit _always_ opens as MacRoman. And you have to manually tell it to open it with the proper encoding (at least that was my experience when I tried it >2 years ago, both my iso-8859-1 and utf-8 files were all opened as MacRoman by BBEdit)!?! > My guess is that TextMate is right at encoding the characters, but > forgots to write the BOM right. I think so because I get the same > wrong results in FlashMX > if I save the file as utf8-(no BOM) from BBEdit. The BOM is optional in utf-8, and generally you _don't_ want it, since a) it makes no sense as there is no byte-order ambiguity, b) it rules the nice property of utf-8 being compatible with ascii, c) utf-8 encoding is really easy to recognize even without a BOM. But if several programs only treat utf-8 properly when it has a BOM, I will consider adding an option -- though I would recommend against using it of course! ;) Kind regards Allan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Find/Replace special characters

by Patrick Burleson

Hello all, I'm loving TM even with it's little blemishes (like not printing!). But here's a question: How do I search for or replace text with a special character, such as a <CR>? With UltraEdit I would use ^M or something like that. Does TM offer the same sorts of things? Thanks, Patrick

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Crash bug.

by ronan

Entering, top [Ctrl + R] hangs TextMate. I'd either not permit it or take a static shot of `top` and use that. -- ronanm.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Xcode external editor support

by Chris Thomas

I'm using TextMate as my Xcode external editor. This works pretty well, but I have a couple of problems: (1) TextMate doesn't seem to support the external editor interface. Specifically, what seems to be missing is the ability to go directly to a specified line when opening a file. This is described here: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/techpubs/externaleditor/ pbxexternaleditor.html Remarks Metrowerks state in their documentation that the IDE (here Project Builder) uses the optional keyAEPosition parameter to tell the editor the selection range. If lineNum is zero or greater, scroll the text to the specified line. If lineNum is less than zero, use the values in startRange and endRange to select the specified characters. Scroll the text to display the selection. If lineNum, startRange and endRange are all negative, there is no selection range specified. Basically, intercept the odoc AppleEvent and read the optional parameter for line number or selection information. (2) When I open a TextMate document that I already have open, TextMate creates a new window for it and leaves the old window open too. This can be very useful under special circumstances, however -- more frequently -- it just rapidly and pointlessly clutters up my desktop. Creating a new window is useful, but should be an optional behavior. Usually, what I'm trying to do when I open a document is navigate to an existing window, relying on the standard Mac UI behavior. I will frequently double-click a file in the Xcode project window to get back to TextMate, most often a file I already have open. Chris

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] More icon feedback

by Drew McLellan

I know this has been discussed, and a number of people have expressed their view that the TextMate icon isn't too visually pleasing already. However, using TM in anger today, I keep finding myself searching frantically for the icon in the dock. It's so indistinguishable at a small size that I literally find it hard to see. So I guess my point is that it's easy to dismiss concerns over the icon as a matter of taste. Unfortunately in this case, and certainly for me, it's a matter of usability - the icon isn't doing its job. See attached! I think I'm going to hunt out an alternative to use in the meantime, but I hope that's useful feedback. drew.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Feature Request

by Eric Curtis

Hello, Early on the first day of this mailing list I sent an email about my first impressions, both positive and negative, which generated a few responses, including one from Allen I believe. That said I want to highlight what for me, as an HTML coder, is the only major downfall that has not been spoken about extensively: > Dragging an image from the project pane into a HTML file should add > something like <img src="eric.jpg" alt="eric" width="100" height="100" > /> and not the actual source code of an image at the insertion point. Now I have seen a few requests that suggest highlighting an image in the project drawer should display the graphic file instead of the code and I agree, however this is not the major hurdle in my book. We need to be able to grab a file from the drawer and pull it into our html code and have the correct width and height added automatically. I have been letting this subject percolate for a few days in my head and I just can not think of another workaround that would approach any reasonable level of efficiency (I would love to hear some though). I could make a macro and have it tab stop at the name, width, height and alt however I am not going to know the width and height in 99% of the cases. I personally would also like to have it automatically add the file name without the extension as the alt tag though some might argue that this will promote poor coding practices, I tend to label my files with readable names... Please take care of this ASAP... Sincerely, Eric Curtis

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] New beta

by Sune Foldager

1.0.1b2 is out, if anyone disabled their auto-checks or similar... plus it "only" checks every 8 hours or so. -- Sune. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" http://cyanite.org -- Content follows ;-).

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] [RFC] Drag actions

by Allan Odgaard

FYI: RFC = Request For Comments. Based on recent input I suggest that I add a new list of 'drag actions'. This will be similar to commands in that it's just a shell command TM will execute (with the normal TM-variables, adding one for the path of (the) dragged file(s) and one for the modifier keys). The output options will also be as for commands, although I'll be adding a new output option: Insert as Snippet (this will be added to all the shell executions where you can select what to do with the output). A drag-action can set a regex to be matched against the current file and the dragged file, if both match, the drag action will be executed (this should probably be a prioritized list instead of TM showing a menu when multiple actions could be applied, since it's likely one wants to do 'catch all' rules). Additionally there should probably be an option to set whether the drag action can work with multiple files (and if this is not set, it will be executed once for every file). Kind regards Allan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Separation of style & syntax (was: TextMate ActionScript Bundle)

by Allan Odgaard

On 11. Oct 2004, at 8:36, Rob Bevan wrote: > [...] I'd much prefer it if TextMate adopted the Xcode way of doing > this: the syntax file defines the language (primitives, built-in > classes, built-in methods, user functions, preprocessor directives, > Numbers and operators: whatever) and the user gets to pick how they > want those displayed [...] Yes, as I thought I made clear on the ML, there will be separate style sheets in a later version. Though I don't think it is as simple as Xcode and just a few "global" names, since TM has a rather free style to define syntax highlight, like in the HTML syntax file where a stand-alone & gets a red background, or the way that HTML uses color for markup when on its own, but grey-tones when there is embedded scripting (and colors are than reserved for scripts) -- plus when embedding stuff, the names would clash (i.e. a string in HTML, and the embedded JavaScript, Ruby, PHP or whatever, would be identical). But the system I have in mind is similar to normal CSS, so it should allow both catch-all rules and pin-pointing individual elements (and put no restrain on which elements a syntax file can define). Also, if I didn't mention this earlier, with the breakup of syntax and style, the former will also be used to enable/disable stuff like spell checking, foldings, smart-typing etc. for comments, strings, tags in HTML, etc., mark filenames so that they can be "followed" in the editor (#include, require(), <a href="...">, etc.), mark function prototypes or sections so that they can appear in the highly requested function popup a.s.o. -- and full recursion will also be supported (which may also then make it possible to do a (clickable) bread crumb display of context in the status bar). I will also re-visit the folding marker-system -- so this is really a major overhaul of the current system! I'll probably dedicate a portion of the wiki to collect requests for this system when the time is right -- currently I have a lot of other things that needs to be "fixed" with TextMate before I can spend resources on this new syntax system. Kind regards Allan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Command line tool

by Andrew Ellis

I've modified a shell script written for SubEthaEdit that allows you to open or create files from the command line, and also to pipe text into TextMate. If anyone's interested, it can be downloaded from: http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~awe/Code/TM_clTool.tgz Andrew

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] View Safari source in TM?

by bongoman

Hi there There is an InputManager here: http://www.codingmonkeys.de/map/log/archives/000107.html that hijacks the output of Safari's "view source" command to SubEthaEdit. It is beyond my expertise to come up with something similar for TM but reckon it might be useful.I like it when I am coding PHP and want to get back the processed HTML from my local development server to look at the final output. In BBEdit I would then maybe "check syntax" to see if my PHP was producing OK (X)HTML (although I gather this is not possible in TM? Maybe there is a CLI-based tool to validate XHTML to which TM could talk? ) So, I'm putting it out there for some generous soul to hack one up for TM ;-) The above link even includes the source code. Any takers? bongoman

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Updating TextMate?

by bongoman

As I slowly customise TextMate by altering the bundles in ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate, I'm wondering what happens when TextMate is updated with alterations to the default snippets, macros & commands? To get the benefit of such bundle updates am I going to have to manually edit my bundles in the above location to include the extras in the new bundles? Or do the bundles in the actual application package have effect to the extent that individual elements therein have not been overriden by anything in the user's Library/Application Support directory? I hope this question is clear... bongoman

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Window mockups update

by Luc Heinrich

Greetings, Someone mentioned XCode top bars this morning (which I think is an excellent idea, much better than my previous scroll bars adorners attempt imho) when I was actually about to post updated mockups as well :) Here they are anyway: I think it looks better than the bottom status bar, and it leaves room (which was a valid concern) for possible additions, popups, buttons, whatever. It looks even better in the project window because it makes a better separation between the tabs and the editing pane: Thoughts ? PS: question for the list moderators: what is the preferred method to post screenshots on the list ? Attached pictures have to go through moderator approval, which is obvious, so do you prefer URLs for example ? -- Luc Heinrich - lucsky(a)mac.com - http://www.honk-honk.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] searches from within TM

by Justin French

Fellow TextMates, Allan has added a nice little menu in 1.0.1 for the times when two or more things 'clash' on the same keyboard shortcut (like commands)... this then allowed us to 'stack' multiple similar commands (like search engines) onto the one key command, like the 'help' key. which is very cool. So, I've added support for Dictionary.com, Google, Thesaurus.com, Wikipedia, Yahoo in the default bundle, and PHP.net in the PHP bundle. See screen grab attached. Basically, it pumps the current word into your chosen search engine, and it works great!! I'm looking for nominations for additional searches to be added to the Default, PHP, HTML or CSS bundles... right now it doesn't appear we can add W3.org sites, because there's no nice flat URL structure to work off, and no focused search engine. Feel free to also say "we don't need Yahoo", etc etc. I'm thinking perhaps an amazon.com search would be a possibility, but really I'm looking for any search-based technical references that could be of help to the masses of TM users by feeding it the current word. It's totally easy to add your own in 1.0.1 by the way :) Justin

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] web badges/buttons

by Raena Armitage

Ahoy there, textmateys: I took the liberty of making some little web buttons/badges, for anyone who'd like one. (Actually, I was really only thinking of myself, cause I wanted to stick something on my weblog, but it's rude not to share.) http://www.raena.net/textmate-icons/

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] New doc from template outside the 'project' context?

by Raena Armitage

Hi, I was wondering if it would be possible to create a new document from a template without having to be in a project. Right now I've just got a scratch project for this stuff, but I kind of like the way BBEdit will let you make a 'New from template...' right there in the File menu. thanks, Raena

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[TextMate] Editing macros (was: TextMate v1.0 Feedback)

by Allan Odgaard

On 11. Oct 2004, at 11:46, José Campos wrote: > What is better than a rainy week-end to try a new software? So (and > this will be my last question until version 1.01 is released) You do know that we run a mailing list? ;) > where are "scratch macros" stored? Can they be edited and modified? If > yes, what > language is used to do it? Currently only in memory -- I may keep it in the preferences, so that it'll remember the last scratch macro from last session. However, the format they are stored in is custom -- I figured it would often be easier simply to re-record the macro again, than to use an editor to change an existing. When you save a macro it ends up in: ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Custom.tmbundle/Macros/<name>.plist You /can/ edit this file, and I know some do. But it's officially not supported, and the format (despite being a normal property list) is undocumented ;) Kind regards Allan

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[TextMate] TM and hard links

by Ollivier Robert

Hi Allan, I've hit something that bother me a lot since I use Arch/tla[1] as version control software. It has a feature where files are shared through hard links in a revision library meaning that if across several changesets, a given file doesn't change, it is stored only one time. That requires that the editor one use to edit the file break hard links on Save (i.e. creating the new file and renaming instead of save in-place). Emacs does that by default and vim can be tweaked to do it too. I don't know what BBEdit does because I've never used it outside the demo mode. I've already bought TM because I think it is a great editor but to be able to use it for all my developements, I need TM to behave like the above. The default behaviour is breaking all revisions stored in the library :( Thoughts, comments? ----- [1] http://gnuarch.org/ -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto(a)keltia.freenix.fr Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.5.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004

20 years, 6 months

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Re: [TextMate] Code Folding

by Ivan Pan

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:34:08 +0200, Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> wrote: > > Oops, my mistake. Here try this. > > <div> > > <ul> > > <li>Item 1</li> > > <li>Item 2</li> > > <li>Item 3</li> > > <li>Item 4</li> > > </ul> > > Yes, this is because of the rule about start and end lines to a folding > must have the same indent. Nay, I can live with that. The file was cleaned up with tidy. Normally I have indents. -- "If you ever find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause, and reflect. -- Mark Twain

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Code Folding

by Ivan Pan

Hi TextMate Users, Consider the following codes: <div> ... <li> ... </li> ... </div> When I try to fold the codes by clicking on <div>, it only folds to </li>. To fold to </div>, I have to fold <li> and then fold <div>. Is there anyway around that? ip -- "If you ever find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause, and reflect. -- Mark Twain

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Problem with folding

by Chris Brierley

I can't think of a way to get folding to work for Python code. I think it's because of the way folding is implemented in TextMate, so I don't think it's possible, but I'm hoping someone can think of something. In Python, all blocks are delineated by indentation. So, here's a couple of blocks: if 1: foo() bar() else: fnord() You'd want to be able to fold "if 1:" through "bar()" and be able to fold "else:" through "fnord()". I can't think of any way to do this with TextMate's folding implementation. It's easy enough to set a foldingStartMarker -- any line ending with a ":" (simply speaking). But what foldingStopMarker? The "mark" is the next line with the same indendation as the starting line, but that line is *not* part of the fold. You want the fold to end before that line. I'm tearing my hair out over here. Can anyone think of a clever way to do this? Am I missing something, or is this just impossible with the current implementation? Thanks to anyone for help!

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] picking two dialog box nits

by Merlin Mann

1. For me, hitting `ESC` in a dialog box is not invoking the `Cancel` button (works that way in most apps) 2. When the `Save` dialog box first comes up, I'd love it if _just_ the pre-suffix name were selected. So on a new, blank document, it would select "`untitled`" instead of all of "`untitled.txt`". Makes renaming a lot faster. (Is this the kind of thing that's appropriate here, or is there a Bugzilla type thing where we should be posting bugs, whines, and pony requests?) ;) -- Merlin Mann 43Folders.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] CSS not folding

by jeremy*pinnix

It seems that folding isn't working in CSS documents. I'm using 1.01b1, but didn't try folding in 1.0 so I don't know if this new or not. There are down arrows next to each selector, but never any up arrows...

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Re: Behavior menu undocumented

by Allan Odgaard

On 11. Oct 2004, at 2:02, Aaron Swartz wrote: > The Behavior menu appears to be entirely undocumented. What do its > menu items do? Would be nice if such questions where sent to the mailing list! :) Freehanded edit: allow cursor to be moved past end-of-line Overwrite mode: overwrite instead of insert typed characters Smart typing: insert ), }, ", etc. when typing (, {, ", etc. Tab emulation: use spaces instead of tabs (and treat multiple spaces as a tab) Indented paste: will re-indent pasted text to match current context Tab expands snippets: controls if a snippet can be inserted by typing its trigger and pressing tab. Kind regards Allan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] [ANN] C and Unix bundles

by Chris Thomas

Update of my previous C/C++/Objective-C bundle update. * Correct C99 keywords and C++ ISO 646 keywords. * Correct handling of whitespace around preprocessor keywords. * The makefile syntax module now lives in a new Unix bundle, which also contains both a generic shell script syntax and an "old-style" plist syntax. <http://www.cjack.com/tm/C-and-Unix%20tmbundles.zip> Share and Enjoy, Chris

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] TextMate 1.0.1b1 available!

by Sune Foldager

There is a beta version of the upcoming 1.0.1 release with several bug fixes and small feature inclusions. Normaly, TextMate doesn't check for beta versions with the automatic version check system, but if you wish to have it do so you can type the following in your favorite shell: defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakCheckForBetaVersions 1 ..and 0 to disable beta check again of course. When starting TextMate the first time after download, a window with release notes will automatically open to show you the latest changes additions and bug fixes. Have fun :-). PS: If you for some reason can't get the beta version from within TextMate, the URL is: http://macromates.com/textmate/files/TextMate_1.0.1b1.dmg -- Sune. "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" http://cyanite.org -- Content follows ;-).

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Viewing PHP output

by Mike Boutté

Hello - new b question: Is there a way to: 1 - route the preview browser through a local server that server side capabilities are displayed 2 - turn off display of code such as PHP that the browser currently interpets as text. Thanks _: thanks from __: mikeBoutté mobile __: 615 969 9654 http __: mikeBoutté dot Com [ http://www.mikeboutte.com ] email __: Mike at mikeBoutté dot Com [ mike(a)mikeboutte.com ] aim __: mrbigbooties [ aim://AddBuddy?ScreenName=mrbigbooties ]

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Annoncing the official TextMate wiki

by David Heinemeier Hansson

Thanks to both Ian and Phillip for kicking us into gear about doing something to track both bundles and other end-user innovation points. We've now put up the official wiki at: http://wiki.macromates.com/textmate/ It's of course free to edit for all, so please do add pointers to more bundles, improve on those that are, and otherwise take advantage of the shared space. Enjoy! -- David Heinemeier Hansson, http://www.rubyonrails.org/ -- Web-application framework for Ruby http://www.instiki.org/ -- A No-Step-Three Wiki in Ruby http://macromates.com/ -- TextMate: Code and markup editor for OS X http://www.basecamphq.com/ -- Web-based Project Management http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain http://www.nextangle.com/ -- Development & Consulting Services

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Delay when switching to TextMate

by Carl-Johan Kihlbom

I'm experiencing a very annoying (and productivity destroying) delay everytime I switch to TextMate from another application. This happens when I have about 2 windows with ~30 files in each drawer. Only 2-3 open files in each window though. Has anyone else seen this? / Carl-Johan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Current date in file templates

by Allan Odgaard

On 9. Oct 2004, at 22:34, Isaac Rivera wrote: > I came up with a pretty decent syntax file mysefl. Okay, Rob also did some ActionScript support: http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2004-October/000422.html > Trying to do a class template and have gotten most of it. > > Can you tell me how to have the perl script input the date in the > template file? > > Its not one of the shell variables, I know, but maybe its accessible > to the script. These questions really belong on the ML, so I'm cc'ing the list :) You can add your own variables to the environment by changing the command in the Info.plist, for example here I setup TM_DATE to be YYYY-MM-DD: { name = "Date Test"; extension = "txt"; command = "[ -f $TM_NEW_FILE ] || TM_DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d` perl -pe 's/\\$\\{([^}]*)\\}/$ENV{$1}/g' <index.html >\"$TM_NEW_FILE\""; } So it's basically just 'var=value' before the perl command (you can set multiple variables). And the back-ticks (`) means that it's a command to execute, so TM_DATE is set to the result of running date +%Y-%m-%d. All this is of course related to bash and not really TextMate. Another neat one is the full user name which we can get with niutil, here's an example: command = "[ -f $TM_NEW_FILE ] || TM_DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d` TM_USERNAME=`niutil -readprop / /users/\\$USER realname` perl -pe 's/\\$\\{([^}]*)\\}/$ENV{$1}/g' <index.html >\"$TM_NEW_FILE\""; One important note: the commands above are prefixed with '[ -f $TM_NEW_FILE ] || '. This is to check if the file already exists, and if so, it won't do the "or" branch (i.e. overwrite it). I really should have added this to the default templates! I'll be adding it to all templates shipping with 1.0.1 -- if you create your own templates, please add it to avoid templates from overwriting files! The reason TextMate doesn't perform this check is, that the template could generate multiple files, or not generate TM_NEW_FILE at al. Also, remember that you're not limited to using perl as command. You can write your templates in e.g. PHP and use php as the command to generate them. Kind regards Allan

20 years, 6 months

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Re: [TextMate] picking two dialog box nits

by Merlin Mann

On Oct 9, 2004, at 8:25 PM, Alan wrote: > So what should escape do? And which dialog box are you talking about? I'd like the escape key to map to the cancel button. Referring here to the save dialog box; excape/cancel in the open box works fine. :)

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Feature request: notification of keyboard shortcut duplication

by bongoman

Hi there I'd love to see Textmate notify me if I attempt to set a keybinding that the application is already using. At present, I can enter the same keybinding twice (or more) without any notification. BBEdit alerts you if you attempt to do this and it is quite helpful. I'm guessing that if you do enter a shortcut that has already been taken, TextMate fails to then display it in the corresponding menu? bongoman

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Working with selections and macros/commands?

by bongoman

Hi there Am wanting to create a macro or snippet to allow me to comment out a selection thus: /* commented selection */ But am a little unclear if this is via a macro or a snippet. Either way, I'm having trouble seting this up. Any clues appreciated... bongoman

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] feature request: code navigation

by Timothy Martens

I'd like the ability to jump to a tag/rule/id/class/function via a pull-down menu. This comes in quite handy in long files.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Change concatenated file header?

by Merlin Mann

I like that there's a per-file header added when you drop a bunch of files into a new txt doc. Where would I go to change the appearance and content of that header? tx, mm -- Merlin Mann 43Folders.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] TextMate wiki

by Philipf

Hello, I've setup a wiki[1] to collect various TextMate add-ons. The general layout is still under construction, but feel free to modify anything. This is obviously temporary solution until macromates configure their own repository. I'll make sure that useful content gets transfered later on. Also the wiki is not intended to replace Ian Phillips bundle page[2], but rather to complement it. I took a liberty of using TextMate icon. Please tell me if that's not ok, and I'll remove it. [1] http://glyf.org/TextMate/ [2] http://ianp.org/articles/textmate.html --- Philipf

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Alternate Icon & updated Smarty Syntax file

by James Spahr

I quickly created an alternate icon that is distinctive in the dock and says a little bit about what the application does. (It's not brilliant, but I think it's functionally a little better). The icon may be used freely for non-commercial purposes. Alternate Textmate icon http://www.spahr.org/share/textmate_icon.zip Updated Smarty Syntax (same URL as previous version) http://www.spahr.org/share/PHP_Smarty.tmbundle.zip James.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Change concatenated file header?

by Merlin Mann

I like that there's a per-file header added when you drop a bunch of files into a new txt doc. Where would I go to change the appearance and content of that header? tx, mm -- Merlin Mann 43Folders.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Snippet, Command, Macro and Language Suggestions

by Justin French

Hi all, There were a couple of bugs in the Snippets, Commands, Macros and Languages bundled with 1.0 (What can I say, I was in a rush!). I'd like to use this thread to document any problems you've encountered or suggestions you have specifically in regards to the Bundles. Please, no feature requests, or anything related to the general TM application. Here's what I have so far: Snippets: - br and hr snippets are redundant (use "Make HTML Tag 2" command instead) - meta snippet didn't have any placeholders - PHP function snippet didn't have a placeholder for the function name - The three PHP tag openers are a little much... will make one redundant, and people can customise top suit their own preferences Languages: - swapped SCRIPT and STYLE patterns around the wrong way in HTML.plist Macros: - nothing yet Commands: - rename "Reload in Safari" to "Refresh Safari", since that's all it does - add a php.net manual look-up command for the current word I'd appreciate any suggestions for more snippets, macros and commands to add to the default set. Please keep them all in this thread, so it's easy for me to keep track of what's going on. Anything that can help people speed up their productivity or solve repetitive or boring tasks is a great candidate. Justin French

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] On folding.

by Hans Petter Eikemo

It´s great to finally have folding in a native osx application. Although the current implementation has a few usability issues: First, the folding column needs to be rightmost in the gutter, next to the text. Currently, when line numbering is active, matching folding widget with line is harder than it could be. Second, the present top and bottom widget icons are too similar, making it hard to read a structure overview off the document. It´s primary function is to show start or end of the block, thus arrow direction must be the most visible feature. In addition i suggest a highlighting feature, allowing us to close a fold(?) by clicking anywhere on a line between between folding icons. A mouse over effect shows what parts will be affected. This will allow easier matching of open and closing arrows, as well as reducing mouse travel. View the attached mock-up for a clearer, visual description. (note in the image I am experimenting with a x-code style top-bar as well ;) hp.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Your syntax definitions?

by Johan Sörensen

Greetings! So, have anyone started to make some custom syntax definitions for the various laguages out there? Lets share! I wish I could say "I'll start" but I've just started on one so I'm still wrapping my head around it. It still baffles me why colours arent global (like, often i want the same color for strings regardless of laguages for instance) (apologies if this has been bought up already, I'm the list newbie) Cheers, johan -- Johan Sørensen Professional Futurist www.johansorensen.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Opening folders.

by Hans Petter Eikemo

I added an alias in my .tcshrc file to open files similar to the bbedit command line utility. (alias tm open -a TextMate) When trying it out, i figured i´d test opening folders using my new command. so typing "tm ." worked great! but unfortunately I was in my home folder: TextMate halted, loading some 20GB worth of files to my new project. And my point is is :) : There ought to be some handling of this situation (when dragging folders to the dock icon as well) either trough a warning, an option to add none-recursively, abort button in shelf etc.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] TM BundleEditor

by Luc Heinrich

Greetings, It seems like people are starting to go hog wild creating TM bundles, so I have started a (currently very crude) bundle editor for TextMate last night, which looks like this: (note: this is not a Photoshop mockup, it's an actual screenshot of a running Cocoa application ;) ). If you guys think that this kind of tool would be useful until Allan and friends come up with an integrated bundle editor, let me know. Allan and friends, if you have something like this up your sleeves that you are ready to ship, like, in 2 weeks, let me know as well ;) -- Luc Heinrich - lucsky(a)mac.com - http://www.honk-honk.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] [ANN] Mono Bundle Updated

by Ian Phillips

As well as jumping to the correct line in files when there's a compilation error, it now does the same with NAnt builds (for the csc task at least). Also included now: Selective builds: in your nant.build file highlight a target and it will be built, this uses the $TM_CURRENT_WORD variable, if nothing's selected it will try to build "all" as before. Build File syntax highlighting. Enjoy, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include <std_disclaimer> | http://ianp.org #endif

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Page for contributed stuff?

by Merlin Mann

Hey, This might have come up already, but I think it would helpful to have a single page that collects (or at least points to) all the available add-ons folks have put together for TextMate, such as bundles, syntaxes, snippets, and so on. A two-line summary of what it does (with screenshots where possible) would also be great. I agree that the power of TextMate comes from unlocking its _insane_ amount of configurability. But, I also suspect that some of the nay-sayers--especially those less experienced with the power of a shell--would be much more inspired if they saw what they could *do* with TM (without having to build the actual widgets themselves). For inspiration, I think Alcor has done a nice job with [Quicksilver's plug-in page][1], which folks can sort by alpha, popularity, or update freshness. Best of all, users can click to install any of the plug-ins right from that page. Takes a lot of the mystery out of the process. Just one data point. If ya'all need help with bandwidth or what have you, please let me know how I can pitch in. I am, as the kids say, a fan. [1]: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/plugins.php (Quicksilver's plug-in page) -- Merlin Mann 43Folders.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Custom Selection/Caret with Syntax Coloring

by Craig Davey

Hi It would be excellent if one could set a custom selection color in syntax plists. I was rather excited to see the feature under View: Show Color Settings, but unimpressed that it was not used when syntax coloring was enabled. Might there be an undocumented property to set it in a syntax file? - craig davey

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] folding bug? (or: help me make this work!)

by Brian Lalor

I'm trying to work out a couple of bugs in my XML syntax. I may have uncovered a bug in the folding code, or I may just be suffering from regexp brainfade... What I was originally trying to accomplish was two types of folding. I wanted the following to fold up: (begin) <foo> <bar /> (end) </foo> ... and I also wanted this to fold: (begin) <foo key="value" (end) key1="value" /> The latter would ideally fold to <foo key="value"(...) Am I correct in believing that this second form can't be accomplished with the simple folding marker regexps available now? The help doc says that it expects the end folding marker to be on the same indent level as the start folding marker, and the second form definitely is not. Now, for the part that may be a bug: I haven't found a regexp that will make TM *ignore* the abbreviated (but multi-line) XML element above (the 2nd one). Perhaps this is all well and good, except that TM seems to rather arbitrarily match the would-be end tag for the shortened element. I'll annotate the screenshot below: Line 62 starts one of those singleton elements. Note that there is no closing tag, but at line 67, another element begins as the same indent level. In the current state, if I use the folding start button in the gutter at line 62, TM folds the document to line 72 (the end of the first </target> text). If I fold the "clean" target (lines 67 to 71) and then fold the <target> at line 62, TM folds all the way to line 92. It seems to me that TM should stop searching for a match if a new start fold marker is discovered at the same indent level. Is that correct, or are my regexps just more sloppy than I thought they were? :-) -- __ ____ / / / __/ Brian Lalor / _ \/__ \ blalor(a)bravo5.org /_.__/____/ http://bravo5.org/

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] HTML attributes coloring?

by bongoman

Is it open to me to set HTML attributes to have a different color to the tag itself? I'm aware that I can edit the relevant file in the Bundles directory to configure my syntax coloring but recall reading something somewhere that this was not possible as yet re attributes & tags.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] quickie Perl syntax coloring

by Eric Hsu

Hi folks, I wanted to try TM for Perl programming, so I whipped up a quickie syntax coloring bundle, available at <http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu/textmate>. You might not like my subtle colors. Feel free to change them for yourself. I'm certain this work can be improved. If you do modify it, I'd appreciate your sending me the improved copy! best wishes, Eric -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] [Tip] Embed selection in tag, lookup PHP functions

by Allan Odgaard

James A. Baker asked me for a BBEdit feature where the selection is wrapped in a tag, which you pick from a list of tags. But then his stream of thoughts derived the following TextMate solution, which I think was very neat: Create this snippet, name it _wtag: <${2:tt}>$1</${2:tt}>$0 Then select Start Macro Recording and type: cmd-x, _wtag, tab, cmd-v, tab, stop recording, save it for later. Now you have a macro which wraps the current selection inside a tag pair (the default tag name is tt, but you can change it). Press tab again after having typed the name to leave the snippet. Another neat trick I saw on a blog (but unfortunately lost the reference) was a command configured to do: open http://php.net/$TM_CURRENT_WORD So simple, and yet so powerful (it looks up the word under the caret in the PHP reference documentation). It's really fantastic to see this end-user innovation, keep it up! :) Kind regards Allan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Unsubscribe from this list?

by Guan Yang

Has anyone successfully unsubscribed from this list? When I hit either the "password reminder" or "unsubscribe" button in the Mailman web interface, I don't get any email from the Mailman. But he's happy enough to deliver the list messages. Guan

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Praise and Comments

by Rich Barton

Just thought I'd chime in with my experiences of using TM over the last couple of days. Firstly, may I heap lavish praise on the developer(s). The live-updating project drawer (despite its shortcomings, below) is fantastic, and the Esc autocomplete is nothing short of magic. How does it *always* seem to guess the right completion for a given start string out of many possibilities? Regardless, this has made coding a lot less laborious. The snippet and macro features are also great time savers. But enough of the praise, here's my comments and suggestions :-) * I rarely want to view the ASCII version of an image file. How about a preview of the image in the editor pane instead? * Whilst speed is generally not an issue, there is an annoying 2-4 second delay (i.e. spinning beach-ball) when switching to TM when I've got an (open) project located on an SMB share. * By default, TM requires a lot of keyboard mashing for relatively common commands. For instance, I see no reason why the Command + Option + Control + D for toggling the project drawer can't simply be Command + D (in fact, I've hacked this myself in IB and it works fine) * How about a split view (i.e. the ability to see different sections of the same document at once)? * TM doesn't seem to remember the window scroll position if you do the following: open a document (that scrolls), and scroll down without changing the insertion point. Switch to another document/tab. Switch back. The window scroll position is back to its original position, and is no longer at the section of text I was looking at. * When searching within a document for a string located "below the fold", the matching string barely creeps "above the fold", i.e. is bottom aligned relative to the window. This makes it harder to see the match in context. I prefer the behaviour (which I believe BBEdit exhibits) whereby the matching string is centred vertically in the window, making it easier to spot and put in context. * How about being able to create a "real" folder (as opposed to a group) in the project draw? * I would like the group name to be selected and editable immediately after its creation, à la "New Folder" in the Finder * The Shift Left/Shift Right commands exhibit weird behaviour. I expect them to work like Command + [ and Command + ] in BBEdit or SubEthaEdit, but they don't. (Sorry for the vagueness. It's easier for you to see it yourself than for me to describe how.) Overall, I like the direction TextMate is going in. Regards, Rich Barton

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Cursor size

by Ollivier Robert

I found the single pixel cursor rather difficult to see with a black background (even though I've edited the bundle for Ruby now). I'd like to see an option to use a block cursor. Thanks, -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto(a)keltia.freenix.fr Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.5.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Latex, python and TAB behaviour

by profprof＠mac.com

I have just downloaded textmate and I looks like a very promising editor. I hope to be able to use it soon! I would very much like to see an environment for both latex and python. Those two environments are those I am in most of the time. I am sure that I not alone. Also, to me the tab behaviour of Emacs (where you can press tab anywhere on a line to align the content of the line) is a big plus when programming. It helps structure back the code rapidly. This feature would be part of a more global automatic formatting for programs but at least it is almost essential. This being said, you are doing an excellent work! Congratulations and I look forward to your next version which might include these features.

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Bundles List Update

by Ian Phillips

Hi All, Been a bit busy at work today, but the list is updated now. So far we have: C C/C++/Objective-C Java JavaScript Mono/C# (now updated with compile output support thanks to Jan Sabbe). OCaml PHP Smarty Python XML Have a nice day! Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include <std_disclaimer> | http://ianp.org #endif

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Syntax coloring and "/"

by Jim Menard

When editing Ruby code, everything after the first "/" in code turns yellow. For example, in the code class Foo def bletch(num) @foo = num / 12 end end everything from the "/" to the end of the file is yellow. Is this a known issue? What can I do to fix it? Jim -- Jim Menard, jimm(a)io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm "...it uses Smalltalk, rather than modern-day kludges such as Java, which resembles a modern object-orientated environment in the way that a pub ashtray resembles a cigar store." -- Andrew Orlowski, "Forgotten language enables nonstop gadgets", The Reg

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[TextMate] Love for Textmate, and some thoughts/observations

by Raena Armitage

Hey, Thanks for a really neat product. I'm still messing about with it, but I think it's a keeper. I've noticed some things, though -- Odd help behaviour: the tooltip that appears when you hover over the Commands textarea says that you can use the purple help icon to get a full list of TextMate's exported variables, but that just goes to the Commands reference page instead. There's a small link to the list of variables, sure, but maybe the list of variables belongs on that page too? (or it should link there as advertised, instead?) Also, why does selecting Help *from the Help menu,* while the commands window is open, mean that it goes to that page? I understand that context is cool, but I expect to find that choosing '(AppName) Help' from the Help menu would take me to the app's help index page. Second: the whole dealie about the preferences window has been discussed, it seems, but it's also something I miss. While there's nothing that really *has* to be in a preference window, it seems logical to me that per-document options ought to be kept well away from the permanent ones. Third, I'm not sure if it's my own font problems or not, but I've never noticed it any other place -- when I'm using any bitmap font the first character in a line has a larger gap between it and the next character. You can see this in action here: <http://www.raena.net/images/gappy.gif> Fourth, why is Page Up and Down moving the insertion point? Can one change that at all? And finally, I'm not really concerned with (s)ftp support myself since I prefer to use Transmit, but does anyone know how i can tell Transmit to make TextMate available in its list of external editors? Can that be done at all?

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] saving files that need auth doesn't seem to work

by Johan Sörensen

Hi, Are there any known issues with TM and saving files that needs authorization to view/edit? I opended /etc/hosts with sudo from the cmdline, and TM doesn't seem to want to save the changes, no error, it just remains unsaved. --johan -- Johan Sørensen Professional Futurist www.johansorensen.com

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[TextMate] Working with multiple screens

by Drew McLellan

I usually work with an additional monitor plugged into my Powerbook at home, but not at work. If I accidentally leave anything open on the external monitor before disconnecting everything, on restoring the affected application the window is pulled onto screen. That is to say, if at any time the desktop area is reduced, windows readjust their position so not to be lost. TextMate doesn't seem to be doing this. I connected up my external monitor this evening to find a window that had been 'lost' all day! drew.

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[TextMate] Function list?

by Chris Jenkins

Does anyone know if it would be possible to use the various extensions within TextMate to provide a navigable list of functions within a class file? A bit like the one BBEdit or SubEthaEdit has. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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[TextMate] Would be cool to see invisible files

by hangonsoft＠free.fr

hi, Just starting using RubyonRails....and each time i create a project i want to modify .htaccess to enable mod_ruby....and it's not possible. would be cool if the contextual menu of the drawer propose a 'toggle invisible file view' item or something like that thanks... textmate is really the best 40$ i ever spent

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[TextMate] Feedback and feature requests

by Kevin Hunt

Hey Allan & David, First, thanks for filling a major void in OSX land. I've been using UltraEdit on Windows for several years until I bought a Powerbook in August. I love everything about OSX except the lack of a solid (and reasonably priced) text editor. Thanks to ditto, I think I found one. So far I'm pleased with TextMate, though I haven't been able to use it much. The single biggest problem I've found so far is that it seems to load files entirely into memory. Try loading a 100MB enterprise server log in TextMate and you'll see it die while consuming megabyte after megabyte of memory. UltraEdit by contrast only loads what it needs into memory, making it very very fast while viewing and manipulating large files. UltraEdit handles GB-size files without breaking a sweat. I think the only complication around that is line numbering becomes slightly more involved. The second feature I'm looking for is a hex view/edit/search&replace. Being able to locate and fix an invalid UTF-8 character sequence inside an XML file that is causing my application to bomb has proven to be a critical feature. Hex search&replace comes in handy when I need to remove all 0x00 characters from a file, for example. Finally -- and this should be the easy one -- please add a "count" button to the search window. Often I want to count the occurrences of a certain error message in a log, or see how many things I'm about to change by search&replace. That's it (for now ;) Keep up the good work! Thanks, Kevin Hunt

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] defining syntaxes

by Brian Lalor

Couple of questions regarding syntaxes: I'm working on modifying the HTML syntax to support JSP. I've created the following definition for comments; JSP and HTML comments are similar. JSP comments look like <%-- comment --%>. I can use a simple regexp to search for  ... or maybe ... <%-- --> --%> I've currently got the (not quite smart enough) pattern: { name = "Comments"; begin = "<[%!]--"; end = "--%?>"; foregroundColor = "red"; }, How is the "include" keyword supposed to work in a pattern? I've tried this: name = "Embedded Java"; backgroundColor = "#E5E5E5"; begin = "<%"; include = "Java"; end = "%>"; ... but that only highlights the background of the excursion, not the text within. I've created a Java bundle with "Java" defined in Syntaxes/Java.plist. -- __ ____ / / / __/ Brian Lalor / _ \/__ \ blalor(a)bravo5.org /_.__/____/ http://bravo5.org/

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Feature request: undo/redo

by Nick Hristov

I do not know if this has been mentioned before, but the undo/redo functionality needs improvements. What bothers me is that the undo functionality will "undo" stuff character-by-character, and not by block. I want block undos. Ideally, I would like to have more of a VIM-like undo functionality. You may wonder what would be defined as a "block undo"? One definition would be: any time when I type in text (or remote text with the backspace/delete) would be one block. When I move the mouse, or use the arrow keys, or use PGUP,PGDOWN, etc. the undo block would end. Nick

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] [Feature Request] Interarchy edit file over sftp

by Simon Dorfman

Interarchy supports ediiting files over sftp. It would make me überhappy is TestMate would support this feature. I asked the Interarchy developer what details you would need to know to make this work. He replied with the links to the info below. I know you intend to support editing files over sftp with TextMate in version 1.1, but I like Interarchy and adding compatability to work with Interarchy looks pretty simple. So pretty please with sugar on top, add this feature. :-D Thanks, Simon ------ Forwarded Message From: Peter N Lewis <peter(a)stairways.com.au> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:06:08 +0800 To: Simon Dorfman <Simon(a)SimonDorfman.com> Subject: Re: Edit with... TextMate >I want to ask the developer of a new text editor (TextMate macromates.com) >to support your "Edit with..." feature. What does he need to know to make >it jive with Interarchy? The details are at: http://www.merzwaren.com/external_editor.html and Bare Bones' original specification is at: http://www.barebones.com/support/developer/odbsuite.html If they drop me a line when it is implemented we'll be happy to add TexMate to our list of possible editors. Enjoy, Peter. -- <http://www.stairways.com/> <http://download.stairways.com/> ------ End of Forwarded Message

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] javascript syntax file

by Caio Chassot

Here's the syntax file I mentioned before. http://v2studio.com/temp/JavaScript.tmbundle.zip

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Why is all the background colours dark ????

by Mats Persson

Hi all, I just downloaded the PHP & Smarty syntax bundle, and found that it too was based on a dark background. Can someone please explain this seeming 'obsession' with dark backgrounds when 99% of all other apps are the basic white background with black/coloured text ??? What is it that I don't get about it ??? (I personally find it very hard to read text that way.) Kind regards, Mats

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] feature request: better support for .textClipping files

by Jeff Ganyard

I hate .textClipping files, they are some kind of bastard implementation of a file. They really aren't terribly useable but they are easy to create and so show up far too often. I've never looked into the format but I don't understand why Apple didn't just make them txt or rtf files. Instead they created a specially functioning file that is not well supported. .textClipping files are supported as expected if you drag from the Finder to an open document in TextMate, i.e. the contents are inserted at the insertion point. Dropping a .textClipping file on TextMate's app icon opens a new empty window with the textClipping's name. Desired behavior would be to display the textClipping's contents. Bonus points for making the textClipping editable! Selecting a textClipping in the project drawer displays an empty window with the title set to the textClipping file's title. Desired behavior would be to display the textClipping's contents. Bonus points for making the textClipping editable. Dragging a textClipping file from a project window to the currently displayed document results in no change to the current document. Desired behavior is to insert the contents of the textClipping file at the insertion point, i.e. the same behavior as dragging from the Finder. thanks for listening!

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] javascript bundle

by Caio Chassot

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone's been working on js syntax highlighting. I derived one from the ruby file, but it's still a tad bit buggy. Perhaps we could join efforts? I'll post the bundle as soon as I get back to the mac.

20 years, 6 months

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RE: [TextMate] Q: Running a periodic shell script automatically

by Chilcote, Joe

>Given that TextMate is pretty good at piping output from shell >commands, would it not be possible to automagically generate a running >"TODO" list in a file using a command similar to this...? > `grep -r FIXME /Users/USERNAME/Sites/FooProject/` Merlin: You could pipe it to an external file. In the Filter Through Command window, choose "Document" and set it to "Show as tooltip" so it's non destructive to your current file, and run: grep -r FIXME >~/project/TODO; open -a /Applications/TextMate.app ~/project/TODO It will auto-generate and pop open for ya. Regards, Joe

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Q: Running a periodic shell script automatically

by Merlin Mann

I can't decide if this is a TextMate question or a GREP question, but here goes. Like a lot of people, I frequently use HTML comments like this to remind myself where known problems exist: > `` Given that TextMate is pretty good at piping output from shell commands, would it not be possible to automagically generate a running "TODO" list in a file using a command similar to this...? > `grep -r FIXME /Users/USERNAME/Sites/FooProject/` Is that sensible? And how might I set that up in a doc to refresh itself? Better as a separate shell script I'd call up somehow? Maybe better off as manual macro I run when I want updates? TIA. (Man, I'm just *loving* the possibilities of this app) mm -- Merlin Mann 43Folders.com

20 years, 6 months

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[TextMate] Folding Triangle Icon Suggestion

by Simon Dorfman

Hello, I'm just trying out TextMate and I very much like the feature for collapsing brackets. (I remember seeing a post on some mac blog about using OmniOutliner to write code just so a similar feature could be achieved. Anyway...) However, I have a suggestion. I have trouble distinguishing between the little triangle icons used on the left side. I was thinking adding color to them would make it much easier to see which is the top and bottom and which is collapsed. So I looked in the resources of the app and found the graphics files and tried changing them. The colors I chose are perhaps a bit much, but perhaps this post will inspire someone else (or the developers) to come up with a better color scheme. I went with a red-yellow-green stop-light color metaphor. Green is the top of an open triangle. Red is the bottom of an open triangle. And Yellow is a collapsed triangle. If that makes any sense... Basically, I changed these files: Folding Bottom Cap.png -> tint Red Folding Collapsed.png -> tint Yellow Folding Ellipsis.png -> tint Yellow Folding Top Cap.png -> tint Green I've attached a zip containing my newly tinted PNGs. I'm not sure if this mailing list will let attachments go through, but if it does, enjoy. Otherwise, I guess you'll have to tint 'em yourself. Simon in New Orleans

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