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[TextMate] moving between tabs

by timothy martens

is there a keyboard command to shuffle back and forth between open files/tabs?

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[TextMate] commands and parsing output

by Brian Lalor

I'm trying to work up a command to call ant with for my Java bundle. I'm confused by the dual-pane window that's displayed. The bottom looks to be just the entire output of the command with line numbers in the gutter. The top I just don't grok, however. It may be that I'm completely missing the point of the command output window; if so, please set me straight. :-) Does the pattern matching expect every single line to match the pattern? For example: /path/to/file:1: error on line 1 /path/to/file:2: warning on line 2 "ant -emacs" has output like this: >>>>begin [...] compile: Compiling 1 source file to /Users/blalor/devel/java/portal/ConsumerCustomCommands/build /Users/blalor/devel/java/portal/ConsumerCustomCommands/src/com/ deltafaucet/portal/commands/profile/AprimoAccountListener.java:30: cannot resolve symbol symbol : class Foo location: class com.deltafaucet.portal.commands.profile.AprimoAccountListener private static Foo bar = new Baz(); ^ /Users/blalor/devel/java/portal/ConsumerCustomCommands/src/com/ deltafaucet/portal/commands/profile/AprimoAccountListener.java:30: cannot resolve symbol symbol : class Baz location: class com.deltafaucet.portal.commands.profile.AprimoAccountListener private static Foo bar = new Baz(); ^ <<<<end I'm not sure what the command output window is trying to accomplish... I've got my command set up like this: Before running command: Save modified files in project Command(s): ant -s build.xml -emacs Standard input: None Standard output: Show in separate window Pattern: ^(/[^:]+):(\d+):(.*)$ Format string: $3 File register: 1 Line: 2 Column: This causes the command window to look like this: I would expect that the top part of the window would only show the lines that matched the regexp, at a minimum, but I really think it should perhaps highlight the line, make it clickable (to jump to the source), etc. I think what's needed (for compiles, anyway) is to have the command output displayed in a pane in the project window (say, at the bottom) and display each line of output from the command. Each line that matches the regexp should appear in a different color, and, if the line, and possibly column, are given as registers, the top part of the project window should jump to the line and file, leaving the lower pane in place. I tend to keep my code windows up so that they take up most of the screen real estate (especially with the project drawer open). The command window really gets in the way. But I think it's a step in the right direction, because I want to be able to jump to a line in the file. -- __ ____ / / / __/ Brian Lalor / _ \/__ \ blalor(a)bravo5.org /_.__/____/ http://bravo5.org/

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[TextMate] [ANN] improved C/C++/Objective-C[++] highlighting

by Chris Thomas

Slightly improved C/C++/Objective-C bundle: <http://www.cjack.com/tm/C.tmbundle.zip> * Keyword corrections for all languages. * Move to a more conventional black-on-white color scheme. * C++ inherits from C to make this more manageable. Although C++ is not a strict superset of C, the differences are extremely slight (for the purposes of TextMate, at least). * That's all for now. I'm happy to coordinate further improvements to the C bundle; you're also welcome to grab my changes and post your own version if you prefer. Highlighting could be further improved. There are a zillion useful macros and snippets to be written. Makefile syntax could be factored out into a "Unix" bundle, one that would also support the myriad shell scripting formats. Allan/Macromates folks, please consider including at least the keyword modifications in future versions of TextMate. Share and enjoy, Chris

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[TextMate] ProFont

by Andrew Ellis

I'm trying to use Profont, but if I type an f followed by an i, the spacing goes crazy, ie. the letters move close together, but the cursor moves as if the spacing was normal. This happens only for f and i, and I haven't seen this in any other apps using ProFont. Is anyone else having the same problem? Thanks, Andrew

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[TextMate] My little remarks on TextMate - Encodings, CJK Characters, Ligatures

by Vincent Isambart

Hello, First thanks to Allan for all the great work on TextMate ^o^. Sorry if any of you in the mailing list do not like long mails. If you do not want to read it, just jump to the next mail in you mail box ;-) And sorry for putting so many things in one mail, but one mail is easier to skip or remove than 3 or 4 ;-) So there are my list of remarks about TextMate. They do not mean that I do not like them program. On the contrary, I just want it to be even better ^o^. Feel free to criticize any of them (except the first one). First, I do not really care if the preferences are in there own dialog box or in the menus. In the menus, it has the advantage of being faster to change. But with the feature list that will certainly grow in the future, some things will certainly have to be put in a separate dialog box. (And no, do not reply to this paragraph, as it has already become a troll on this mailing list ;-)) 'Re-open with encoding' is great but the encodings list is quite short. UTF-32 is not even there. If someone works a little with Japanese text, he will need Shift-JIS and EUC-JP. Someone with Chinese text might want Big5. Even a westerner wanting to use the euro symbol might want ISO-8859-15. The best would be to be able to add or remove encodings in the list. The same thing would be great in the 'Save' dialog (the list should be the same in both places and be editable at both places). And adding it in the 'Open' dialog would be great too. Little bug : if we select 'other' in the View->Tabs Size menu, nothing happens. There should be a dialog box asking for the number of spaces you want. An other little problem I have is the drawing of CJK characters. These characters are wider than latin characters and as they are drawn today in TextMate, a character may overlap with the previous and next one. In terminals, this is generally handled by making them double-width. In SubEthaEdit, it is quite strange as they are not fixed size at all, some are larger than others. If you want any screenshot, example, just ask. Note that I am in no way good in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, I just made a few Ruby scripts to help me train my Japanese, and they do include some Japanese characters. For the ligatures problem, if it has not been corrected in the sources yet, it's quite easy to correct: If you want ATSUI not to use common english ligatures (fi, fl): ATSUFontFeatureType type = kLigaturesType; ATSUFontFeatureType selector = kCommonLigaturesOffSelector; ATSUSetFontFeatures(myATSUStyle, 1, &type, &selector); and if you do not want any type of ligature: ATSUFontFeatureType types[9] = { kLigaturesType, kLigaturesType, kLigaturesType, kLigaturesType, kLigaturesType, kLigaturesType, kLigaturesType, kLigaturesType, kLigaturesType }; ATSUFontFeatureType selectors[9] = { kRequiredLigaturesOffSelector, kCommonLigaturesOffSelector, kRareLigaturesOffSelector, kLogosOffSelector, kRebusPicturesOffSelector, kDiphthongLigaturesOffSelector, kSquaredLigaturesOffSelector, kAbbrevSquaredLigaturesOffSelector, kSymbolLigaturesOffSelector }; ATSUSetFontFeatures(myATSUStyle, 9, types, selectors); Some info there : http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ ATSUI_Concepts/atsui_app_features/chapter_9_section_15.html (be careful, the feature selector names on this web page are not all good) It will also disable ligatures for Hindi or Arabic script, but as TextMate's goal is not seem to be a multi-lingual editor... (but it would be great if it could at least manage the CJK characters well ;-)) Last thing: having a direct link to http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo or at least to the archives of the mailing list (http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/) on TextMate's web page would really be great. I only found it after subscribing to the mailing list, in the mail asking for confirmation. Cheers, Vincent Isambart

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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

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[TextMate] Yank not working

by Thaddeus J. Quintin

I just downloaded TextMate and am pretty happy with it. Since it is a Cocoa app, all of the standard MacOSX key bindings come with it! I've used emacs as a text editor for years and can't break away from the basic editing commands. I created my own TextMate keybinding file, as noted in the help section, and resolved an issue with '^f' not being bound to 'move cursor forward'. The only other thing that I can't seem to figure out is '^y'. When used with '^k' I should be able to 'kill' to the end of a line, then 'yank' that text out of the kill ring. It's a quick and dirty cut-and-paste option that's very much ingrained. I can't find any key bindings that override this behavior, but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Thaddeus

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[TextMate] feature request: open in separate editor from project drawer

by Jeff Ganyard

Or whatever you want to call it, being able to open a file from the project drawer in a separate window. Sometimes I want to look at things side by side.

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[TextMate] Tooltips on file names

by Drew McLellan

Some file names can be long, and others are deep in a folder structure. Where the width of the file draw doesn't allow for the full name of a file to be displayed, it would be handy to have a tooltip appear with the full file name. drew.

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[TextMate] page down

by Jeff Ganyard

The page down key appears to scroll line by line not page by page.

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[TextMate] Encoding glitch?

by Michael Gregoire

I've been trying out TextMate to decide whether it's worth purchasing. One thing has happened twice when writing php with it. My best guess is that it's an encoding problem of some sort. For some reason when I create new document in TextMate SOMETIMES php refuses to parse the document at all, in fact even if I try inserting some test html code, it also doesn't parse. What I end up with in the browser is an empty page. Viewing the source reveals this to be so. I've tried reopening the document with new encoding from the file menu... I've also reverted to trying to convert the encoding in bbedit and yet it still doesn't load in the browser. This only happens sometimes. Other times, there are no problems with the php file. I've combed through the faulty files for script errors and debugged the code thoroughly, it isn't a problem with the code. So far I haven't been able to pinpoint what the difference is between the files that have no problems and the faulty ones. The ONLY solution was completely writing the exact same code in a new document in bbedit. I want desperately to leave bbedit for textmate, but this issue is a major bump in the road for me. Anybody else have a similar problem? Any suggestions? Maybe something I'm missing? Thanks Mike

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[TextMate] window tab controls

by Jeff Ganyard

Other comments have been made about them being non-standard. I don't see a problem with that, they behave differently than other implementations. My only comment is the amount of space the take up. They really seem unnecessarily large particularly along the vertical axis. Something more along the proportions of the items on the bookmarks bar in Safari would be most welcome!

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[TextMate] Preferences solution

by Eric Ocean

I agree that not having the Prefereces... command is bad, in that it's confusing. Having said that, I understand why it's not there. So, to please both camps, have the Preferences... menu item launch a help window/assistant that explains the preferences philosophy of TextMate, along with visuals on where to find them (the specific menus), and how the TextMate approach makes sense for what TextMate does. That will eliminate the number one problem encountered by new users, and also get them quickly up to speed about TextMate's underlying philosophy. "Show, don't tell." Regards, Eric Ocean

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[TextMate] Regular Expressions Reference

by Jeff Holland

Hello all, It's clear that the more familiar you are with regular expressions, the more productive you can be with TM. If you could use some additional help (beyond what's already in the TM help), here is a site that I've found useful: http://www.regular-expressions.info/ I'm sure others will have some favorite regex sites/books of their own to recommend. Cheers, -jeff

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[TextMate] How to fix HTML syntax yourself

by Eric Curtis

Well this will certainly be fixed in the upcoming version (Justin already said so) and he pointed out what was wrong but here is how you can easily get HTML syntax working now: Go to: /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/ HTML.tmbundle/Syntaxes/html.plist then edit lines 62 and 64 by swapping the styles and script names. It should look like this in the end: /*{ name = "Embedded JavaScript"; backgroundColor = "#E5E5E5"; begin = "<(?i:script)\\>"; end = "</(?i:script)>"; },*/ { name = "Embedded CSS"; backgroundColor = "#E5E5E5"; begin = "<(?i:style)\\>"; end = "</(?i:style)>"; patterns = ( { include = "CSS"; } ); }, Later, Eric Curtis

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[TextMate] Incremental Search?

by Ben Protas

Is there a way to do incremental search in Textmate, where the display scrolls to the closest match as you're typing in the search term, ala "Quick Search" in BBEdit or Ctrl-S in Emacs? Ben

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[TextMate] text folding bug?

by James Spahr

When you have a block of text like this: <ul> <li><a {if $section eq "orders-pending"}class="current" {/if} href="/admin.php/orders-pending">Pending Orders</a></li> <li><a {if $section eq "orders-pending"}class="current" {/if} href="/admin.php/orders">Search Orders</a></li> </ul> the </ul> doesn't register as a closing tag because it is not at the same tab level as the <ul>. In other words, the above doesn't work, but this does: <ul> <li><a {if $section eq "orders-pending"}class="current" {/if} href="/admin.php/orders-pending">Pending Orders</a></li> <li><a {if $section eq "orders-pending"}class="current" {/if} href="/admin.php/orders">Search Orders</a></li> </ul> James.

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[TextMate] ftp-support

by Tomas Jogin

Hi First of all, TextMate is great work. I only had to try it out for a few seconds and it was instantly obvious to me that TextMate just _feels_ great to use. It's powerful yet doesn't feel clunky or bloated, unlike some other editors which shall not be named. The only thing missing for me to be able to use it in my day-to-day work is the possibility to have projects synchronize with an ftp-server. I'm a web developer, and most of the time I work against a remote ftp-server (not always, but quite often). The only editor I've found that does this in a simple fashion is Dreamweaver MX, which, while not terrible as a code editor, it isn't exactly optimal either. I hope ftp-support is added soon, not just being able to edit a remote file, but actually being able to associate a project with an ftp account. Because, then I'd have no reason to use Dreamweaver MX again, instead of using it all the damn time. Best regards, Tomas Jogin, Sweden http://jogin.com/weblog/

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[TextMate] Python.tmbundle

by Philip

I've got a rough cut at python support bundle[1]. It includes syntax and three snippets: klass, def and deff. The snippets rely on a de facto python standard of 4-spaces for indentation. I'll keep making minor updates, but feel free to use it in the future TextMate releases. The editor is rather neat so far. Keep up the good work. [1] http://glyf.org/TextMate/pythonsyntax.tgz --- Philip f

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[TextMate] TextMate first impression (longish)

by Luc Heinrich

Greetings, (this was cc-ed to feedback(a)macromates.com and contains screenshot attachments, which I hope the ML server won't strip out). A little background first: I'm a long time BBEdit user, I think that it's a great product but I also think that it really starts to show its age. It really looks like the BareBones guys are trapped in the technology they used from day 1 and that if they'd want to get fresh, they'd have to restart from scratch, which they probably won't. That's why TextMate looks promising, and because it's built on top of modern technologies it has the potential to become really great. However, this v1.0 looks like nothing more than a good draft to me. Yeah, shoot me, but that's David's hyping machine fault... :p So here's a first batch of random comments about my first impressions. They are mostly cosmetic and usability related, since I didn't really used the product a lot yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll have some more as time goes by. - Ok so, I'm one of those who was very surprised not to find a preferences dialog. When you think about configurability, you usually think about preferences. I just saw a post about this on the MacroMates blog, so let's just avoid this subject right now. - Now let's go straight to the GUI itself. Here's a screenshot of a TextMate default window (with my own default background color): What I see here: + The color contrast between the gutter and the text area is pretty low so the distinction is hard. + The gutter can only have 4 digits line numbers (no, files larger than 9999 line are not that rare). + The (orange) wrap column line is almost invisible. + The lower status bar has loads of useless empty space. + The empty corner at the intersection of the scroll bar looks, well, empty. Here's my (photoshop) take on this: + A simple gray line to separate the gutter from the text area. + The gutter is a bit larger to allow 5 digits line numbers. + The outside limit of the wrap line is drawn in the same color than the text area but with a lower brightness (that's currently how BBEdit 8 does it, it looks really nice imho). + The status bar is collapsed and put at the same level than the horizontal scroll bar, saving lots of empty space. The left indicator is the current line number, the right indicator is the column number (again, that's how BBEdit does it, but they do it for a good reason). Small icons could be added to make this more obvious. + No more weird empty corners. Doesn't this look much tidy and cleaner like that ? Let's move on to the project window. Here's how a basic project currently looks in TextMate: What we have here: + Weird looking tabs. They're not even tabs actually, and they really look like they're quick hacks to me. + Weirdly sized icons in the drawer list. + (same comments than above for the text window itself). Here's my take on this: + Tabs looking like tabs (actually stolen from NetNewsWire and resized a bit). + Smaller icons in the drawer list allowing for a more balanced look (quite impressive to see what a couple more pixel space can do uh ?). + Folder name is bold. + (same modifications than above to the text window). Let's move on to features: - Find and replace feature: + There should be a "Use selection for replace" menu shortcut. + There should be a "Replace" menu shortcut. + There should be a "Replace all" menu shortcut. + There should be a "Replace and find next" menu shortcut. All these would allow to perform basic search & replace operations straight from the keyboard, *without* having to open the find panel at all. - I guess that you guys already know that and are already preparing something to fix this problem, but I'll say it anyway: having to manually go and edit plist files from the guts of the app to have some decent colors (relax, I'm kidding, I just don't like thos ugly black backgrounds) is ridiculous. Tell me you're working on something before I start my own Cocoa 'tmbundle' editor. - Something which I found pretty weird: each tmbundle defines its very own color settings right ? So if I want to have the same background color for *all* languages I have to change *all* tmbundle syntax files, right ? Wouldn't it be much simpler to have "default" settings which each tmbundle would inherit from and could then override or not ? So just like CSS elements can inherit from their parents, a syntax file could either inherit attributes from the defaults, or override with its own values. That would greatly simplify the whole coloring settings I think. Thoughts ? - Another pretty obvious one: there is no "function popup", or any other way to quickly navigate through the list of functions or methods of a code file, or the structure of a markup file. - Snippets are great, but the snippet menu is already pretty crowded. I think that allowing snippets to be grouped in families (based on the tmbundle they're coming from, to begin with) or categories or whatever, could help minimize the clutter. Ditto for macros and commands. - How about the ability to have the snippets, macros and commands in a palette ? - How about giving some basic abilities to a command to specify when it is actually applicable ? A command menu item (or palette entry ;)) could then be disabled if it is not. For example, the "Compile" command does not make sense for a '.html' file, or the "Reload in Safari" command does not really make sense for a '.rb' file. - Being able to write commands in something else than shell scripts could be cool. Like, being able to directly write applescript instead of having to go through 'osascript' commands. - Hey, you seem to have pretty good text editing widget (that OakTextView thingy), so why not also use it for command editing ? Heck, why not even also use it for colored regexp editing in the find panel ? - Detail: it seems like a lots of ATSUI related debug messages are still being sent to the console. - Snippets, macros and commands are good ways to automate a lot of stuff, but are there any plans to allow TextMate plugins, for those tasks which would require an elaborate GUI ? Oh, and one final comment: I *R*E*A*L*L*Y* *H*A*T*E* the icon. It's butt ugly. Really. Heck, you have John 'Magic' Marstall on the mailing list, I'm pretty sure he could do something about this :)) -- Luc Heinrich - lucsky(a)mac.com - http://www.honk-honk.com

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[TextMate] "Invisibles" - Feature request

by Mic Milic Frederickx

Hi, I've searched the documentation and the list archive for any mention of "invisibles", i.e. the ability to show tabs and spaces, a la BBEdit's "Show Invisibles" and "Show Spaces" or SubEthaEdit's "Show Invisible Characters". Now, maybe it's there, but I can't find it; in that case I'd appreciate a hint. If not, and since we're supposed to send feature requests to the list, that would be mine. Best, Mic

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[TextMate] Mirror Typing in Snippets

by Ian Phillips

Can anybody get this to work? Is it not implemented yet or am I just screwing up? Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include <std_disclaimer> | http://ianp.org #endif

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

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7.10.2004, space aliens observed Mats Persson saying: >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 ??? A lot of people who spend the day writing on a Computer prefer dark backgrounds because for them it is less tiring. Dark text on white background works well on paper, because paper reflects light and doesn't emit it. A screen, however, emits light, which makes white really bright. I prefer dark backgrounds and find them more readable and a lot less tiring for the eye than bright backgrounds. lucas - -- "No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines greatness." -- Charles Kendall Adams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWVAErXYdom/dB2cEQKdlwCfVX4ysljltPmUtOZ/LKK4iPFBU+IAnAxE ZRSqSwv9Hgm01hqqihT5ohPE =9naC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Why a drawer?

by Oscar Sanchez Casamitjana

(pardon my english) Having seen the 'rails_setup.mov' I thought Textmate's interface would be more Xcode like, but I see that you finally opted for something more Mail.app like. I wonder why, I see the splitview metaphor more adequate for Textmate. OS

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[TextMate] [Request] Find/Replace without dialog

by Gavin Kistner

Cmd-E to enter search string is a nice start. Cmd-Opt-E to enter replacement string. Cmd-... to replace and find next Cmd-... to replace all I use these commands more than almost any other when editing text. To have to use a dialog to enter the replacement string...to have to use the mouse to replace next...ouch. That's a big showstopper for me. Oh...and why does 'Ignore Case' get greyed out when you use regular expression (and yet maintain the state last set to, as though it's either locked on or off)? -- (-, /\ \/ / /\/

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[TextMate] [ANN] PHP & Smarty Syntax coloring

by James Spahr

I've been having fun poking around Textmate. I spent today picking through the internals to create my own syntax coloring for PHP and Smarty. Smarty ( http://smarty.php.net/ ) is a templating system for PHP. http://www.spahr.org/share/PHP_Smarty.tmbundle.zip Anyone is welcome to download and modify at as they please. Of note : a complete php function list is included in the php syntax file. I'm quite please with the Smarty coloring, all html elements are in cool and muted tones, and all smarty template logic is in saturated and warm tones -- it's rather easy to see what's what. James.

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[TextMate] Re: Preferences window (was ProFont)

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7.10.2004, space aliens observed Benny saying: >>BTW, what the heck is "Freehanded edit"? >It is an editing mode in which the caret is free to go anywhere in >the display i.e. it is not limited horizontally by newlines. Kind of >like in really old-style editors. Ah! That's pretty awesome! No more of this foolish entering of spaces! :-) lucas - -- "You'd have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood." -- Philip K. Dick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWT+lrXYdom/dB2cEQK46gCdFO6dQNkgoHsS4iOTg8wa8Qham5AAoN6m In6xZGE/p7BdgcpYovPowGby =M4HB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Feature Request (and some thoughts on Preferences)

by Ian Phillips

How about this as a solution for preferences: 1. Move all of the preferences off the menus and into a separate (command-, invoked!) window. 2. Add a toolbar and allow most of the preference options to be added to it via the "customize..." option. This would allow users to make frequently changed preferences easily available, and it seems to be the method that a few other apps have chosen. And now for some feature requests: 1. Allow projects to define their own variables in the same way that you can with the defaults command line tool. This would be useful when setting up templates and snippets. 2. Add a separate "New" sub-menu, which bundles can contribute to, I see this working like the existing templates feature, but with parameters in a similar to snippets. Probably need to have the parameters configured in the property list that would go with the template file. 2a. An alternative to this would be to allow template property lists to specify a series of parameters that would be prompter for in a dialog before the file is created. E.g. { parameter = "1"; displayName = "Class Name"; defaultValue = "MyClass"; } 3. A minor UI tweak: have the encoding and line endings embedded in the status bar, this could either be a read-only display, or a combo-box to alter them. 4. Add a preference/option to show or hide white space characters (e.g. line endings, tabs, etc.). What do people think? Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include <std_disclaimer> | http://ianp.org #endif

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[TextMate] Quote auto complete

by Rad Smith

I'm not sure if I'm using it right, but the quote auto completion seems to slow me down, as most of the time you need to add something after a quote, but I'm required to use the right arrow key to move over a character to go past the quote, which is a rather long distance compared to the quote key. Is there some trick I don't know about?

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[TextMate] Re: Preferences window (was ProFont)

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Sune Foldager saying: >Good, argumentative reasons for it, please! :-). For me, it went something like this: "OK, now I want to change the background color of this window. That must be in Preferences. Uhm. No preferences in the app menu. Must be burried somewhere. Probably in Edit. Nope. Maybe in Window? Nah. Okay, so I'll go through each menu. Oh, Color Settings. Okay, but that only works with syntax highlighting disabled. That must mean that there are more settings somewhere else. I guess I just missed the Preferences. They *must* be in the app menu. Argh. Okay, "TextMate Help". What, you mean I can't change this?" Had all settings been inside a Preferences dialog, it would have been clear what the user can change and what he can't right from the beginning. Having preferences inside the menu has additional problems. It clutters the menu with things you use seldomly, which makes things you use more often (like actual commands) harder to find. And it makes it harder to find preferences, because it's often not clear where a given preference should go, and if you can't find it, you can't be sure whether you just missed it or whether it simply doesn't exist at all. A preferences window also gives you room for additional information about settings. BTW, what the heck is "Freehanded edit"? lucas - -- "Afer all, who needs courage when you have a gun?" -- Prof Hubert Farnsworth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWTtN7XYdom/dB2cEQKLfwCeJdL0hMZkjcm0MqGbsh+tdQ2ZZt8An2be sREVT2jSFy1pLzFpZrdamzIu =mtXU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Automatic Opening in Scratch Project mode?

by Patrick Burleson

I have been waiting for a good and affordable text editor to come along for OS X. I come from the Windows world and used UltraEdit there. The one thing I really like about TextMate is the Tabbed interface much like other MDI like editors such UltraEdit and IntelliJ IDEA, especially the re-ording of tabs. I just wish that TextMate offered this tabbing without having to create a project or even a scratch project. It would be really neat if TextMate just opening up in scratch project mode. Is possible in the current version? Other than that and some more syntax highlighting, it's a great piece of work! You are to be commended! First editor I have used on OS X that felt "right". Patrick

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[TextMate] Tab in snippets

by Joost Schuttelaar

Small thingie: I think it would be very convenient if after entering all the parameters in the snippet, the tab key would place the cursor at the end of the snippet. Example: ahref\thttp://somewhere.com/\tsomewhere\t results in <a href="http://somewhere.com/">somewhere</a>CURSOR instead of <a href="http://somewhere.com/">somewhere CURSOR</a> :) BTW: I'm starting to enjoy this editor very much...! :) -- Joost Schuttelaar

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[TextMate] (no subject)

by timothy martens

Any plans for XHTML/CSS code hinting? And what about browser previews other than the built in safari rendering? Also, can we just have the project drawer show up by default. There's hardly ever an instance where I wouldn't need/want it in view. -t

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[TextMate] Re: TextMate first impression (longish)

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed drew saying: >I keep my dock quite small, and the icon just looks like a nasty >brown blur. Yeah, the problem with the icon isn't that it's ugly (I really don't care either way), but that you can't easily recognize it if it's bellow a certain size, which it is in my dock. That's what's great about BBEdit's icon. It may not be pretty, but I always see it immediately because it's unique. lucas - -- "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." -- Abraham Lincoln -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWTtP7XYdom/dB2cEQKZfgCgo5hqWe9T4OU47+Suu+3HXIlIn0oAoOmC 7BDdL/cTMVoVukEEYISBRuBc =acBq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Re: HTML, auto-complete and snippets

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Justin French saying: >>The main feature I use in BBEdit is the excellent CSS support. I can >>easily create new CSS rules and find out what the correct syntax is. >>Having something similar in TextMate would be great. >All the CSS properties (font-size, width, height, etc) are all in >there as keywords, as are all the units (px, em, etc). Agreed, most >of the values (bold, underline, block) are not in there yet, and TM >has no idea if "left" is a valid value for "float", but I don't think >BBEdit knows this either... It does, though :-) Here's how BBEdit work. If I have something like this: .foo { } I move the cursor between the two brackets and hit Cmd-M. This gives me a list of properties. I select one. This gives me something like this: .foo { border-color: ; } Then I hit Cmd-Opt-M, and now I get a list of possible values for this property along with related properties. HTML tags work the same. This helps since - I only ever use tags that are valid in the scope that I am in - I always know what tags/properties I can use and how to spell them - I always know what values are allowed I'm not sure if something along those lines is planned for TextMate since it may not be as much targeted at HTML as BBEdit is, but it would certainly be very nice to have something like this, maybe even more automatic, for example with dropdown lists of legal functions/tags/properties/values/... automatically appearing while typing. lucas - -- "I hate words." "Words suck." "If I wanted to read, I'd go to school." -- Beavis & Butthead -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWQmVrXYdom/dB2cEQJMKACgpXlWarOtjYDq1G1xC2kVjUTXLT4AniDv QYLRRQoh7EyG7msEVmKmR/E4 =yi2e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Selecting tags and their contents

by John Marstall

This is something I've longed for but have never seen it in any text editor yet: the ability to simply select markup tags and/or their enclosed contents. Most editors follow the selection logic of word > line, which IMO is rarely useful in working with code. What I'd like is an assortment of modifier-clicks (command-click, option-click, command-shift-click, option-shift-click, etc.) that perform the following: (when the pointer is inside a tag) - single-click selection of the current, single tag - single-click selection of the current tag, its corresponding opening/closing tag, and everything in between (when the pointer is between two tags) - single-click selection of everything between the two most immediate tags (and excluding the tags themselves), with perhaps additional clicks casting wider and wider inter-tag selections (going from <td>[selection]</td> to <tr>[<td>selection</td>]</tr>, for example) Some items (like the <div> tag in HTML syntax mode) are already being treated as collapsible objects now, but there's no way (AFAIK) to grab such an object and move it around without carefully selecting the whole thing character-to-character. This seems like a needless restriction to me. Hope that's helpful. John

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[TextMate] My TextMate experiences

by Scott Barron

Looks like things are calming down a little so I thought I'd chime in with my TM experiences. I used it all day today for hacking on a Rails app and here are my thoughts. I've avoided putting in nits that I've seen addressed already, though it's possible I've missed seeing some, please forgive me if there are duplicates :) My editing background is that I'm a hardcore vim user and I quite dislike using the mouse while editing. Issues * Renaming a group is kind of a pain, can it default to being ready to edit when you click to make a new group? * A language nitpick, the message on the group info window ... "What did you expect to find here? ..." I dunno, seems a little unfriendly? * There seem to be some pretty annoying issues with the whole tree in the drawer collapsing without my telling it to do so. For example, have a group with folders in it, do the info on that folder to change the regex, then when the changes get applied *poof* the tree collapses. It has also collapsed at random times when I've switched back to the desktop TM was on, though I cannot consistently reproduce this, it just happens whenever. * Any way to undo more than one character at a time? This is arduous, though it may be difficult to implement without modes (ala vim). * Dragging things around in the tree seems to be more painful than it should. I'm not sure why, but I was trying to drag a folder such that it would be below (but not nested in) another folder and I couldn't get it to go. I became frustrated and deleted the reference and re-added the folder. Anybody else experience this, or is it just me? Feature Requests * Completions drawn from all open files, please? * Auto un-dent things like (in Ruby) else, end, closing braces, etc? The major issue for me is the collapsing of the tree that is going on. Other than that this thing is pretty sexy. I enjoy the organization it provides me and I look forward to the next release after this flood of feedback you have recieved from the users. I'm confident that it will be quite nice. Thanks -Scott

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[TextMate] Re: Reload in Safari and other UAs

by timothy martens

On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:24 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote: > On 6. Oct 2004, at 12:17, timothy martens wrote: > >> 1. Preview in Browsers with the ability to add/remove browsers. I >> love the built in Safari engine live preview, but can we harness >> other User Agents' rendering engines as well? > > You can open the current page in a browser using the Commands. There's > already one that assigns command-r to activate and refresh Safari. This is not working for me. When I do CMD+R ()reload in Safari) -- Safari launches/opens my default home page not the document in Textmate I'd like to preview? Does the script need to be modified? Anyone?

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[TextMate] Preview in Browsers

by timothy martens

I'm aware of the "Reload in Safari" under COmmands, but it's not loading the page I want to preview in the browser but rather my default home page? Any written a script that does this properly (i.e., launches browser and preview page)?

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[TextMate] [Request] Case-manipulation in Regexp

by Gavin Kistner

Regexp is great (yay for positive and negative look-aheads...wish there was pos/neg lookbehinds, too, even if only fixed-width). However, it's lacking a pretty important feature, IMO: character case manipulation in the replacement. I'd love a way to: * Change the first character of the saved subexpression to upper/lowercase. * Change all characters to upper/lowercase until further notice. I really lust for the folding feature of TextMate for Ruby work (and a couple other features that BBEdit lacks) but the core isn't quite there...yet :) -- (-, /\ \/ / /\/

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[TextMate] Feature Request

by Jason Wong

For show web preview, allow specification of a url, such that we can see dynamic content. Jason

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[TextMate] Re: Two small requests

by Jeff Holland

Sune Foldager wrote: > UltraEdit has an option for permanently highlighting the current line, > I don't know if that's the same as in BBEdit Yes, it's the same thing. > (maybe just a different background color in the gutter, so it doesn't > have to take up more space). I'm open to alternatives, and that sounds like a decent one to me. Kind Regards, -jeff

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[TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Tomas Jogin saying: >>>I hope ftp-support is added soon, not just being able to edit a >>>remote file, but actually being able to associate a project with an >>>ftp account. >>Is there any reason why you don't use an actual FTP application for >>this? Interarchy has some awesome features for this kind of work. >>What I do right now is this: For each Project in TextMate, I have an >>FTP Disk in Interarchy. When I open a Project, I mount the FTP Disk. >>Whenever I change something in TextMate, it's being uploaded >>automatically to the FTP server. >The reason I don't want to use an actual FTP application is that I >don't want to incessantly switch between the editor and the >ftp-application. Using FTP disks, you don't have to. Of course, it's not quite as nice as absolute automation, but it's pretty close. And it could probably be totally automated using AppleScript by having a script that opens both the Project and the Interarchy FTP disk. Once both are open, you don't have to do anything in Interarchy anymore. It will pick up on any changes you make in TextMate (or any other application) all by itself. >The interarchy feature you mention sounds pretty nice, and in fact >I'll download Interarchy right now, because it does sound sweet, but >having it integrated with the editor would be even better. By the >way, something like that isn't possible with Transmit (which I >currently use), right? No, Transmit doesn't do anything like that as far as I know. FTP disks are a unique feature of Interarchy. lucas - -- "These guys are pretty cool - even though they're sixty." -- Beavis & Butthead (about Aerosmith) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWQkQLXYdom/dB2cEQKYdACgmZYdBNb4NtRTjweCzWyYU2vsbzIAoMQ9 GXF/o6AFjsPVB9hl2qW7VSjc =S7Mp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Projected Timeline?

by jheyer

Hey, I really like TextMate's features (especially the tabs and project window). I'm just wonder if there is somewhere we can view the projected timeline for the development of this app. I have 30 days to evaluate it and I'd like to know what features will be up and coming so I can determine if it will fit my needs and wants. Thanks. -- jheyer

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[TextMate] Syntax Highlighting regex question

by James Spahr

I'm a bit confused by this from the help book: A regular expression which is used to identify the portion of text to be styled. Example: "\\<(true|false)\\>". How is this different from: "(true|false)" in other words what are the < and > doing in the regex? James.

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[TextMate] Syntax highlighting confused by "/" with strings

by Ollivier Robert

The following two screenshots shows that TM's syntax engine gets confused by / inside either heredocs or plain "" strings: <http://www.keltia.net/download/slash1.pdf> <http://www.keltia.net/download/slash2.pdf> Cheers, PS thanks to danp on #rubyonrails/freenode who found it. -- 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

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[TextMate] File Types and Icons

by Patrick Burleson

So I wanted to start associating most of my plain text files to open in TextMate and I was hit with a big "bummer". It appears that .sql is not an ending the TextMate developers had thought would be a text file and thus, I get the blank icon instead of the nice TextMate Text Document icon. Is there a way to tell the Finder that I want the TextMate icon no matter what the file extension? Thanks, Patrick P.S. I'm fairly new on the OS X platform coming from Windows for the past few years and the OS 7 and 8 before that.

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Re: [TextMate] Re: HTML, auto-complete and snippets

by Hans Petter Eikemo

So what we´d need is a dtd interpreter? Implementing bbedit cmd-m style inserting should be fairly easy to implement given two new features in the Commands implementation; 1. "TM_CURRENT_BLOCK" environment variable. (TextMate must know this already to handle folding.) and 2. "Select value from list, and insert at caret" Standard output, for commands. this way, using Commands, we can pass '<div>', '<ul id="menu">','div' or whatever from my hypothetical TM_CURRENT_BLOCK variable to an external script and make that return newline separated valid tags for that context. "Select value from list.." output would then present the result in a list, and allow you to insert your choice at the caret. This said, what i´d REALLY love would be a SketchUp style ruby API for extending the editor. (http://sketchup.com/forum/list.php?f=6) hp.

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[TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Joost Schuttelaar saying: >>Others suggested the Interarchy application, which can make virtual >>FTP disks, and I agree that it tends to be a very good solution. Try >>it out if you need the integrated FTP! :-) >40 bucks just to mount a FTP server seems a bit much to me... Interarchy does a lot more than that. It's quite simply the best FTP client on the Mac and the only FTP client that does everything I want an FTP client to do. If you work with FTP (or SFTP or any of the other supported protocols) regularly, you owe it yourself to at least check out Interarchy. lucas - -- "Were you born worthless, or did you have to work at it?" -- R. Lee Ermey as Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWReXrXYdom/dB2cEQIArACg50l79CTpZywgttCDzZd8EHa54+wAoMsj 7n1rsWF5X8WcY5/DDDVSzKMN =nTm8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Anti-aliased text

by Drew McLellan

I'm using ProFont and coding in PHP (for today, at least). I'm finding the anti-aliased text unusable on a white background. It's all fuzzy and lacks definition. If I switch anti-aliasing off, any emboldened keywords become unreadable, as ProFont doesn't really support bold text. The ruby colour scheme, which uses a dark background, doesn't seem to suffer from this. Any suggestions? drew. -- drew mclellan http://allinthehead.com/ web standards project http://webstandards.org/

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[TextMate] Add More Folds for HTML

by Eric Curtis

I was poking around in the HTMl bundles and found an easy way to add more elements that would fold (Marc asked about this). Go to and edit: /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/ HTML.tmbundle/Syntaxes/HTML.plist Line 34 and 35 are: foldingStartMarker = "(<(?i:(head|table|div|style|script|ul|ol|form|dl|p|li|a|select))\\>.*? >|\\{)"; foldingStopMarker = "(</(?i: (head|table|div|style|script|ul|ol|form|dl|p|li|a|select))>|\\})"; I added the p,li,a, and select. One thing to note is that a fold will only occur if an element takes up multiple lines (one line wrapped will not fold). Have Fun, Eric Curtis

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[TextMate] Re: HTML, auto-complete and snippets

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Sune Foldager saying: >>2) I for one can never remember all the different versions of (X)HTML >>and how you're allowed to nest tags in each version and what tags >>have which attributes and so on. >I think the best practice is to just write HTML like it was XHTML >strict.. or at least transitional. That is, always end your tags, >always end non-dual tags with /> and so on. That's what I do, but it doesn't help me with the problems I mentioned. >I think making TM into an editor which manages all the standards for >you is a mistake. There is the w3.org site for checking the standards, >and I think it's best if the person knows about it, not the program. I write applications in Java, C#, Objective-C, C, C++, AppleScript, Perl and some other languages. I write HTML, CSS, JavaScript, RSS and more for several different web sites which use different versions of (X)HTML. I'm afraid I don't work with HTML often enough to remember what attributes were removed from which version of HTML, but I still want to write valid HTML. Of course I validiate my sites with the HTML validator. But even so I would like to have an editor that helps me write corrent HTML in the first place by showing me what's allowed and what's not while I actually write the code. This is not a show stopper. TextMate is great even without such a feature. But this feature would definitely help me a great deal and save a ton of my time. lucas - -- "There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed." -- Alan Loy McGinnis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWRAJrXYdom/dB2cEQJeGACgmlCeSc0p/4oUMK/C2/ToMlret/EAnA3L Zl4ZH/30CZfRPBLj2UySf465 =4foR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] another feature request

by Nick Hristov

This should be relatively short and simple: execute the external commands as an NSTask or detach a thread from NSApp . Nick

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[TextMate] Two small requests

by Jeff Holland

Hi, First of all, congratulations on a very impressive first release! I think TextMate has great potential, but people should keep in mind that it's only a 1.0 release. BBEdit (for example) has a 12 year head-start! Give it some time. I humbly submit these two small(?) feature requests which I haven't yet seen on this list: - An option to highlight the line containing the insertion point (a la BBEdit 8). - An option to "Indent wrapped lines by n spaces" (a la Xcode). Both of these seemingly trivial things would make my coding life (ObjC/Ruby) a bit easier. Thanks for listening, and keep up the excellent work! Kind Regards, -jeff

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[TextMate] Re: HTML, auto-complete and snippets

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Nick Hristov saying: >>6. Context sensitive code completion that is included in skedit and >>DW (XHTML/CSS are most importnat to me). >In my opinion that is a bad idea. This will bloat the editor. XHTML >and CSS are not all that hard to learn, and you can quickly learn by >heart the properties. Two thoughts: 1) It won't bloat the editor if the user can turn it off 2) I for one can never remember all the different versions of (X)HTML and how you're allowed to nest tags in each version and what tags have which attributes and so on. Of course, it will take time to implement something like this, so the question is whether there are enough people who want it. TM Users wrote: >Lucas, just in case you're not aware, that's exactly how skEdit >operates Well, the problem with skEdit is that I downloaded it about a month ago, opened it, promply forgot about it and now can't open it anymore since the demo has expired :-) I'll try to get it running again. lucas - -- "Are you the boys that spray-painted my dog?" "Uh, no, that was some other guys, huh huh." -- Beavis & Butthead -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWQyj7XYdom/dB2cEQLdoQCgw+JhPRFUH8WQMQl8s3TmBu2R9YMAoJD/ P54vyar6b9m9UFdt7qrRJN9S =z5Lv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] ftp question

by Ron Pritchard

First of all, congrats on getting the app out. As an imminent switcher, I have been looking for an ultraedit replacement. I know the site says that Editing over Secure FTP is coming soon. However is there a way to open and save documents over FTP. I did a cursory search and couldn't find it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ron

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[TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Nick Hristov saying: >Why not just do an ftp mount through the finder? Because you can't write to a server mounted in the Finder. lucas - -- "It's dawned on me that Zero Tolerance only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange." -- Terry Pratchett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWQzC7XYdom/dB2cEQI3XQCg2/L1YMraapquMtP/8B8QPNL1GnEAn3YK KUP8Ir+r6mMS2k8gXzczH66r =d16D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Clint Ecker

Nick, FTP Mount via the finder is read-only. That would be kinda pointless for this application wouldn't you think? On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:33:20 -0500, Nick Hristov <hrisnik(a)iit.edu> wrote: > Why not just do an ftp mount through the finder? > > Nick > > On Oct 6, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Lucas K. Mathis wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Tomas Jogin saying: > >>>> I hope ftp-support is added soon, not just being able to edit a > >>>> remote file, but actually being able to associate a project with an > >>>> ftp account. > >>> Is there any reason why you don't use an actual FTP application for > >>> this? Interarchy has some awesome features for this kind of work. > >>> What I do right now is this: For each Project in TextMate, I have an > >>> FTP Disk in Interarchy. When I open a Project, I mount the FTP Disk. > >>> Whenever I change something in TextMate, it's being uploaded > >>> automatically to the FTP server. > >> The reason I don't want to use an actual FTP application is that I > >> don't want to incessantly switch between the editor and the > >> ftp-application. > > > > Using FTP disks, you don't have to. Of course, it's not quite as nice > > as > > absolute automation, but it's pretty close. And it could probably be > > totally automated using AppleScript by having a script that opens both > > the Project and the Interarchy FTP disk. > > > > Once both are open, you don't have to do anything in Interarchy > > anymore. > > It will pick up on any changes you make in TextMate (or any other > > application) all by itself. > > > > > >> The interarchy feature you mention sounds pretty nice, and in fact > >> I'll download Interarchy right now, because it does sound sweet, but > >> having it integrated with the editor would be even better. By the > >> way, something like that isn't possible with Transmit (which I > >> currently use), right? > > > > No, Transmit doesn't do anything like that as far as I know. FTP disks > > are a unique feature of Interarchy. > > > > lucas > > > > - -- > > "These guys are pretty cool - even though they're sixty." > > -- Beavis & Butthead (about Aerosmith) > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 > > > > iQA/AwUBQWQkQLXYdom/dB2cEQKYdACgmZYdBNb4NtRTjweCzWyYU2vsbzIAoMQ9 > > GXF/o6AFjsPVB9hl2qW7VSjc > > =S7Mp > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > > textmate mailing list > > textmate(a)lists.macromates.com > > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate > > > > _______________________________________________ > textmate mailing list > textmate(a)lists.macromates.com > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate >

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[TextMate] XML and Java syntaxes

by Brian Lalor

I've got a rough cut at XML and Java syntaxes done. They're available in my Subversion repository[1]. [1] http://telly.bravo5.org/svn/repos/TextMate/ -- __ ____ / / / __/ Brian Lalor / _ \/__ \ blalor(a)bravo5.org /_.__/____/ http://bravo5.org/

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[TextMate] add these to feature requests

by Nick Hristov

Gread job so far, macromates! Here is stuff to think about: - AppleScriptability (pardon my ignorance, is it scriptable)? - Gutter: use color lines as clues for start and end of code blocks (steal that idea from jEdit :) - Preferences? Editting bundles is an unpleasant hybrid between mac and unix. (btw., in the short term you can create a "themes" part on your website and place collections of bundles there ... http://theexciter.com/ has a few already). Did I say you have done great job? Hope you bury bbsoftware :) Nick

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[TextMate] Re: HTML, auto-complete and snippets

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed timothy martens saying: >Any plans for XHTML/CSS code hinting? The main feature I use in BBEdit is the excellent CSS support. I can easily create new CSS rules and find out what the correct syntax is. Having something similar in TextMate would be great. lucas - -- "Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others." -- Samuel Johnson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWP9YbXYdom/dB2cEQLbtQCfSFIHwQQnhvkV4wLeofsyYvhCQ4oAoJcz GGzTM3zdpzqlZViEHYyrgj/T =G/6W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed David Heinemeier Hansson saying: >SFTP support is planned for version 1.1. And unlike most editors that >merely integrate with Transmit or other existing programs, the plan >is to have support from within TextMate. In addition to that, I would love to be able to use TextMate as an external editor for other FTP applications like Interarchy. lucas - -- "It's that dude! The Grim Rapper!" -- Beavis & Butthead -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWP9d7XYdom/dB2cEQLKnwCgrkrvjjgRDIC60Zma4KHgtP3ghuAAnAzn MOVzOXHw9DxirCVWlsFQxIAc =5cmY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Tomas Jogin

> On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Tomas Jogin saying: > >I hope ftp-support is added soon, not just being able to edit a > >remote file, but actually being able to associate a project with an > >ftp account. > > Is there any reason why you don't use an actual FTP application for > this? Interarchy has some awesome features for this kind of work. What I > do right now is this: For each Project in TextMate, I have an FTP Disk > in Interarchy. When I open a Project, I mount the FTP Disk. Whenever I > change something in TextMate, it's being uploaded automatically to the > FTP server. The reason I don't want to use an actual FTP application is that I don't want to incessantly switch between the editor and the ftp-application. I just want to hit a shortcut key to upload the document I'm currently editing and that's it. Often times, I have many documents open at once, which reside in different directories. If I used a separate FTP-application, not only would I have to switch to it, but I'd also have to traverse to the right directory, on both the server and the client, and then upload the file in question -- instead of just hitting a keyboard shortcut in the editor and that's it. The interarchy feature you mention sounds pretty nice, and in fact I'll download Interarchy right now, because it does sound sweet, but having it integrated with the editor would be even better. By the way, something like that isn't possible with Transmit (which I currently use), right? Thanks for the tip on Interarchy, but the feature request still stands. ;-) Best regards, Tomas Jogin

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[TextMate] "revert to saved" command?

by Brian Lalor

Is there a command to revert a file to it's saved state? It'd be easier than closing the file (declining to save my changes) and then re-opening it. -- __ ____ / / / __/ Brian Lalor / _ \/__ \ blalor(a)bravo5.org /_.__/____/ http://bravo5.org/

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[TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Tomas Jogin saying: >I hope ftp-support is added soon, not just being able to edit a >remote file, but actually being able to associate a project with an >ftp account. Is there any reason why you don't use an actual FTP application for this? Interarchy has some awesome features for this kind of work. What I do right now is this: For each Project in TextMate, I have an FTP Disk in Interarchy. When I open a Project, I mount the FTP Disk. Whenever I change something in TextMate, it's being uploaded automatically to the FTP server. I'm not sure what exactly the plan is as far as TextMate's FTP support is concerned, but if you need this right now, Interarchy can provide it. lucas - -- "I know why the caged bird sings." -- Maya Angelou -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWPyRbXYdom/dB2cEQKDKwCgkipEKndn+Kkz1AActqloXvdqHdEAoJ9d FqtQbXhGio8J7wAmxllYQYIz =3Cho -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Comparison with SubEthaEdit

by Andrew Green

Hi, Many congratulations on the release. TextMate is truly impressive stuff. I certainly wouldn't want to start any holy wars already, but I've written a small comparison of TextMate and my current daily editor, SubEthaEdit, that might be of passing interest. <URL:http://www.lowerelement.com/Geekery/Mac_OS_X/TextMate_vs_SubEthaEdit.ht…> As others have already observed, for programmers, an editor is the one piece of software in near-constant use, and deciding to switch to a new editor is a big, very personal, deal. I never could appreciate BBEdit in the way that many others do -- for me, TextMate is already streets ahead of BBEdit in terms of comfort. There are things about SubEthaEdit I'd sincerely miss, however, despite the excellent additional features offered by TextMate. The 30-day trial (and what I suspect will be a fairly aggressive release schedule of improvements) are very welcome in making that decision. Cheers, Andrew. -- :: article seven Andrew Green automatic internet andrew(a)article7.co.uk | www.article7.co.uk

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[TextMate] Versiontracker?

by Damelon Kimbrough

Are there plans to list TM at http://versiontracker.com/macosx/ ?

21 years

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[TextMate] I have no idea

by Damelon Kimbrough

Well, maybe I do. Just experimenting with TM and dropping files on an open window to see how it handles things. Everything pretty much everything opened as I expected until I dropped one file and got: setting up accounts.rtfd/ 1__#$!(a)%!#__smile.tiff 1__#$!(a)%!#__smile.tiff.tiff smile.tiff smile.tiff.tiff TXT.rtf wink.tiff wink.tiff.tiff Haha. The file in question was a cut and paste from a conversation that Dean and I had via iChat. Crazy stuff. So I'm not sharing silliness for no gain, what exactly am I seeing here? Why is TM only registering the embedded smiley graphics and not the text itself? – Damelon

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[TextMate] Congratulations

by allan＠ghostgum.com

Well done guys. I came, I saw, I bought. TextMate has delivered most of what was promised by the hype that preceded the long-anticipated launch. I now look forward to its ongoing development. First impressions have been very impressive. Allan

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[TextMate] inserting snippets

by timothy martens

Hi TexMaters! Forgive the rudimentary nature of the question... Wondering how snippets work. For example, the "a href tag" snippet which inserts "<a href="$1">$2</a>" has a trigger of "ahref" But when I type "ahref" in an html document it does not seems to trigger the snippet? What am I missing? -t

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[TextMate] TextMate 1.0 is finally here! (one-time annoucement)

by David Heinemeier Hansson

TextMate 1.0 is finally here! We know that the wait has been excruciating and the longing unbearable, so we’re incredible proud and relieved to finally be able to say: It’s here! => http://macromates.com/release It's okay to rush for the download now. You can come back to read the rest of this later... TextMate was born out a personal frustration with the lack of a decent editor for code and markup on OS X. So TextMate is first and foremost a relief for that personal frustration. An editor that we could use to write C++, Ruby, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and any other programming or presentation language. But as all of you that signed up for this mailing list showed us, we were not alone with our frustrations. The anticipation for the release has really been overwhelming, so we're extremely happy to finally deliver. That said, this is a 1.0 release. There will be rough spots, there most certainly will be bugs that our extensive testing hasn't found yet, and there will be features missing that you'd wish were there. Hopefully, though, what is there will be promising enough that you'll feel comfortable jumping on board from the start. So instead of raving endlessly about what is there (go to the site for that), we're going to tell you what it still lacks: * Good defaults for more languages (1.1) Currently, only real love has been given to Obj-/C/C++, Ruby, HTML, and CSS. Hopefully, you guys will help us bring the same level of support to other languages. * Editing over Secure FTP (1.1) Work on files residing on another machine using Secure FTP. * Integrate with CVS/Subversion (1.2) Check-in, check-out, check-in, check-out. Why don't we sing that song from within the editor? As you can see, we're planning to address those points in near-future point releases that will be free upgrades to all who register version 1.0 of TextMate. We respect your right to try before you buy, so for 30 days you can enjoy a completely unrestricted version of TextMate -- without forced delays at start up or anything like that. What we would appreciate, though, is that you register TextMate as soon as you decide it's something for you. We're currently building TextMate on a 733mhz G4. It takes 45 minutes for a complete build. It's very painful and has been slowing down development considerably. The first registrations will go towards getting a dual G5 -- so we can deliver TextMate 1.1 even faster! Sincerely yours, Allan Odgaard & David Heinemeier Hansson

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