General Comments/Questions
=======================
1. Textmate's web preview integration with Markdown is awesome.
This feature has drawn me into textmate.
2. I am so tired of bloated Microsoft Word files. Other than the
files that people send you, has anyone adopted Textmate as their
primary text editor? It seems like a fantastic editor for code, but
how is it for someone in education?
Writing a Markdown document in Textmate
=================================
I understand the basic principals of markdown, but typing the code
(albeit, simple) seems burdensome. Is it possible to:
* highlight selected items and add a "*" (bullet) at the beginning
of the list?
* create triggers for the various markdown codes?
Markdown Conversion
=================
I have had great success in putting markdown document on the web.
What are recommendations for converting a markdown document into a
text file?
Thanks,
Stephen
I just discovered TextMate last week and based on user reviews I
decided it was worth a look-see.
I have been using the demo exclusively for the past week in an
attempt to wean off of BBEdit. However I've noticed a couple of
showstoppers for me and I'm hoping I either haven't discovered that
they can be done in TextMate or that someone clever has figured out
acceptable workarounds.
First up, BBEdit has a function under the Search menu "Compare Two
Front Documents" which recognizes which windows are open in BBEdit
and performs a diff between them. I use this all the time, and
usually one of the documents is a remote document being edited via
FTP through YummyFTP and TextMate. The only comparable function I
found in TextMate is within the Diff bundle, however it specfically
requires that both files be in the same project (i.e., local) and
that they be selected in the Project drawer. Since I need to compare
files remotely to files locally this does not do the trick. I tried
reading up on TextMate's dynamic variables, but didn't see anything
resembling "TM_OPEN_FILES".
Can TextMate accommodate BBEdit's "compare two front documents"
function, either through some built-in function I don't know about or
through some external bundle/workaround? If not, is this planned in a
future release?
Next showstopper for me is the inability for TextMate to find/replace
recursively through a directory. BBEdit allows me to select the
directory of my choice, whereas TextMate seems to require that I
define a Project and that only the Project files can be searched. Is
there any way to override that? Any plans of expanding this in a
future release?
Like I said earlier, I'm very tempted to switch from BBEdit to
TextMate, so if either/both of the above "showstoppers" could be
addressed/accommodated it would be a no brainer.
Thanks a bunch.
brian
Hello,
I've been working a little bit on a bundle for writing guitar (and
other) tablature. There's syntax highlighting, there's a "blank
staff" snippet-like command which will respond to a tuning you set
for the whole document, and there are keybindings to insert and
delete blank spaces and bar lines for a whole column, and to fill in
blank space.
Here's a movie: http://www.mdaines.com/system/tablature.mov
It goes a little slow since I'm still experimenting with the key
bindings. Your input is welcome re: that and anything else!
There's a zip archive of the bundle here: http://www.mdaines.com/
system/tablature.zip
Presumably it'll go into a source repository or something soon.
-- Michael Daines
http://www.mdaines.com
In "Re: Disable Re-indent Paste per bundle" Allan Wrote:
> You should know that you can use ctrl-cmd V to paste without
> re-indenting.
Yes, I do know about this.
> But I think it should be easy to add a preference to disable
> it per scope.
That would be fantastic. Sure, *I* know about ctrl-cmd V, but people
who've never used TextMate are unlikely to know what's going on.
Perhaps I'm deluding myself into thinking that there are people out
there who will adopt this bundle without learning all that TextMate
has to offer, but I'm thinking ahead.
My particular case--the screenwriting bundle--has absolutely no use
for this feature, in fact, it gets pretty hairy when pasting large
chunks of text around, especially since the language depends, not on
markup for it's scope definitions, but indentation.
I know you can disable the re-indenting of text for textmate as a
whole, but how is this done on a per-bundle basis?
I remember Allan mentioning something about a "commands.plist" file,
but I can't find a reference for exactly what that is.
Thanks in advance.
Hi. When using "Edit in TextMate" in Mail.app, the edited text is not
copied back to the original window when saving and closing. However,
"Edit in TextMate" does work when using MarsEdit.
I assume that there something is up with my Mail.app - has anyone
else seen this?
Best wishes /Marcus Ahnve
--
Marcus Ahnve
marcus(a)ahnve.com
Hi,
I'm currently working on an article, together with some other authors,
so we thought it wise to split it up into separate files, and then one
main file, where all the others are \input-ed.
Works great, and the TM_LATEX_MASTER variable makes life a little bit
easier.
However, it turns out that support for this variable is a bit sketchy:
- Using a full path in that variable breaks everything. Escaping a full
path in quotes breaks it even more.
The "Typeset and View" command normally constructs the filename and path
itself, and assumes a clean input, but this breaks when the value of
TM_LATEX_MASTER is used directly.
- If you just give a filename (and the file is in the project root),
then "Typeset and View" can at least build the file. Viewing it breaks,
because file://localhost/${TM_LATEX_MASTER%.tex}.pdf can not be found.
(the variable is properly expanded in the URL, the file just can't be found)
I tried to look into it, but I couldn't really figure out how to get it
to work properly. I hope someone else here has some time and is willing
to look at it.
Regards,
Jeroen.
Those of who you fear the SVN instructions for getting bundles, run away
now.
There are several nifty bundles out there that for one reason or another
aren't in the official subversion repository. To update them, you have
to remember to do an 'svn update' for each one. Isn't there an easier
way? Yes. Yes there is: svn:externals[1]
cd "/Library/Application Support/TextMate"
svn propedit svn:externals Bundles
This will popup your chosen editor. Now simply enter the name of the
bundles you want updated followed by a space and then the path to
their subversion repo. For example, here's my (short) list:
tAylott_subtleGradient.tmbundle http://textmate.svn.subtlegradient.com/Bundles/tAylott_subtleGradient.tmbun…
RubyAndRails-Experimental.tmbundle http://www.eyematz.com/svn/public/TextMate/RubyAndRails-Experimental/RubyAn…
Note that those are only two very long lines. Save your changes and
leave your editor.
Now when you do an 'svn update', it'll automatically fetch changes for
the other bundles as well.
Caveat emptor for those of you with commit access: make sure you don't
accidentally check in the property changes. We mere mortals don't have
to worry about this. ;)
[1]: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html
--
eric
These Apples are delicious
Hi all,
I've written a ruby script that will tidy-up a series of assignment
statements by lining up the equals signs. Installed as a command in
TextMate, it can reformat all assignment statements in the current
selection, or all assignment statements conitiguous to the current
line. Note that the script assumes you uses spaces, not tabs; and I
wrote it last night, so there may still be bugs. :-)
Anyway, if you are interested, you can find more details and the
script itself at:
http://random-dreams.org/2006/05/fun-with-textmate-align-equals-in.html
Regards,
Chris Poirier.
I had to do a little work with ASP (not ASP.net) today and I was surprised
to see that Textmate did not come with an ASP bundle. So far, my Google
searches havn't found any ASP bundles, so I was hopeful that the Textmate
community could help me.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance!
There's a pending patch [1] that gives TextMate's Subversion bundle
automatic support for graphical diff utilities like BBDiff.
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten this patch to work with FileMerge
because FileMerge and its command-line launcher, opendiff, take non-
standard arguments and thus aren't compatible with Subversion.
Although wrapper scripts are available, the best one I've used so far
[2] has been rather flaky: sometimes it simply fails to launch
FileMerge.
Today, however, I discovered a new FileMerge wrapper script [3] that
seems totally reliable and works quite nicely with the patch. So, to
use FileMerge with Subversion, here's what you do:
* Install the patch
* Put the script somewhere (chmodding it to executable)
* Add this to ~/.subversion/config:
diff-cmd = <path to script>
After that, any Subversion diffs you do will be handled by FileMerge.
Trevor
[1] http://macromates.com/ticket/show?ticket_id=48F737BE
[2] http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn-
viewdiff
[3] http://ssel.vub.ac.be/ssel/internal:fmdiff
Hey Mates,
I made a [Proof of Concept][1] interface of a theme chooser and coder
styler for TextMate. Using the fantastic commands from [Brad Choate]
[2] to generate `CSS` from TextMate theme and convert documents to
`HTML` files, this nifty little thing let's you view code how it
would look in TextMate. You can choose a small number of Code
snippets and Themes right now and just play with it a little.
Feedback welcome.
The idea is to use this on your site for pasting code or as a general
PasteBin for the `IRC` channel. It's a little `PHP` thingy and some
`AJAX` to load the source and I will make it available under `BSD`
licence shortly.
Again, your Feedback appreciated. There are some items on the TODO
list and some incompatibilities and/or browser flaws to master. Just
don't nag me too much why your theme is not included in the list
right now ;)
Also the professional themers out there (namely Thomas Aylott and
Infiniknight) are welcome to send me some of their sample code fpr
theme designing if they are willing to share it :).
Thanks to Jacob Rus for his ideas and Brad Choate for the nice commands.
So long (and thanks for all the fish),
*Soryu*.
[1]: http://projects.serenity.de/textmate/codestyler/source.php
[2]: http://www.bradchoate.com/
Hi,
I have what may be a simple question about Smart typing. How do you
all "finish" typing something that has smart typing characters? Here's
a simple example:
Typing in some HTML, an input tag.. type <input type="
and TextMate helpfully enters the second " character. Thank you TM.
Now I enter the type: text
Now my cursor is still within the quotes. By habit, I type the closing
quote, but now I'm just defeating the purpose of smart typing. My
option, as I see, is to read and hit the right-arrow key.
A slightly more complicated example - in PHP:
array["something"]
As soon as I type [" it looks like: array["|"] (where "|" is my
cursor. Again, thanks TM. But now, after typing 'something', I have to
move past the " and ].
Am I missing some simple navigation? It's a simple thing that's making
my want to turn off Smart typing.
Thanks!
I'm using groups so that I can hove more that on project folder per
TextMate instance. TextMate seems unable to deal with this. Many
commands that use the project directory environment variable - such
as Subversion - fail. And sometimes the value is set to '/' and
other times it is set to an actual folder in the group.
Is this a known defect? Is there a workaround?
Thanks.
It did, but thankfully Allan fixed it, it was due to a misunderstanding on
my part. Sorry
Sam D
On 5/15/06, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com
>
>
> I just created a new PHP file in TextMate, and the file type popup at
> the bottom was set to Cake, and not HTML (which I assume is correct
> for a PHP file). The Cake bundle does claim PHP in it's filetype list.
> Is this correct?
>
>
OK, everyone seems to be adding some new functionality to TM these
days, so I thought it was about time for me to get on that bandwagon
again after a long time away ;-)
So here is the RubyAndRails-Experimental bundle which will do the
following:
1. Syntax Highlight all known Ruby & Rails methods
Especially for those that like me waste large amounts of time looking
for 'spelling' bugs, where I/we have spelled a method wrongly.
In other words: typing "validate_confrimation_of" will NOT highlight
since it’s spellt wrongly, while "validates_confirmation_of" will
highlight correctly. Just make sure you have highlighting on for the
'support.function' scope.
2. CodeCompletion
Pressing ESC after typing a few characters will now give you a
complete listing of all known Ruby, Rails or Ruby & Rails methods
that begins with those characters. Built in support for three
separate scopes if you so wish. (Requires some editing of scopes in
the Bundle window)
Nope, does NOT yet support code base scanning for your own defined
methods. :( Please feel free to improve upon this! ;-)
3. Ruby 'ri' Documentation Support
View ri's informational output based upon the currently selected word
OR the current word your cursor is within. Requires that you have
the ri documentation installed, or it will give you a information
text telling you that.
Great !! So where do I get hold of it ??
If you have SVN installed just copy and run either of these commands:
svn checkout http://www.eyematz.com/svn/public/TextMate/RubyAndRails-
Experimental/RubyAndRails-Experimental.tmbundle RubyAndRails-
Experimental.tmbundle
svn export http://www.eyematz.com/svn/public/TextMate/RubyAndRails-
Experimental/RubyAndRails-Experimental.tmbundle RubyAndRails-
Experimental.tmbundle
or else download it from here: [ http://www.imediatec.co.uk/tm/
bundles/RubyAndRails-Experimental.tmbundle.v1.zip ]
and then double-click the bundle to install it.
Enjoy ! And if somethings not working OK, please let me know,
preferably with a diff patch ;-)
Kind regards,
Mats
----
"TextMate, coding with an incredible sense of joy and ease"
- www.macromates.com -
"RubyOnRails development done the Mac way"
- locomotive.raaum.org -
There is a nice review talking about the comparative advantage of
TextMate over Emacs at macdevcenter.com:
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/05/
emacs_est_mort_vive_le_textmat_1.html?CMP=OTC-13IV03560550&ATT=Emacs
+Est+Mort+Vive+Le+TextMate
Best, Mark
Hello:)
I would like to know which kind of script is used
for the writing of Latex & View in order to be able
to modify it.
I would like to include something like:
#!/bin/sh
FILE=${1%.*}
cat >temptex<<EOF
\documentclass{article}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\input $FILE
\end{document}
EOF
pdflatex temptex
$FILE is $1 is the script used in Textmate
Thanks
Alain Matthes
I just created a new PHP file in TextMate, and the file type popup at
the bottom was set to Cake, and not HTML (which I assume is correct
for a PHP file). The Cake bundle does claim PHP in it's filetype list.
Is this correct?
Thanks!
jt
Hello,
I've been fooling around a little with trying to create a language
grammar for guitar tablature, and I ran into a problem with matching
something like this:
E 0-------|--------|--------|
B --0-----|0-------|--------|
G ----0---|--0-----|0-------|
D ------0-|----0---|--0-----|
A --------|------0-|----0---|
E --------|--------|------0-|
I should probably know my TERMINOLOGY better in order to do this, but
I'm calling this thing a "block" for now. Every document will have 1
or more of these. I attempted to write a rule that would match one
these things:
{
name = 'block.tablature';
match = '([A-G].+\n){6}';
}
This doesn't seem to match a section like this, but if I use the find
command with that regexp, the "block" is found and selected. What am
I missing?
-- Michael
A couple of days ago I checked in a new CSS bundle command for doing
a preview. You can find this in the macromates.com subversion
repository:
http://anon:anon@macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/
CSS.tmbundle/Commands/Preview.plist
The goal was to generate a preview HTML page from the CSS rules
declared. It's not perfect, but it's a first stab at it. I've seen
similar functionality in TopStyle (for Windows) and a single-item
preview in CSSEdit (for Mac). The command is bound to Ctrl+Option+Cmd
+P. Note that since it is scoped to source.css, hitting this key
within an HTML document with the caret inside a CSS block will also
invoke the CSS Preview. If this happens, it will submit the contents
of the CSS block as the input to the command (using the new 'Scope'
input option). The command also works on a selection; so if you have
a few CSS rules you want to preview, you can select them first.
Feedback as always is appreciated-- there are still some rough edges
(ie, how to handle absolute-positioned rules or floats), but it's
pretty useful to me already.
-Brad
Is it possible to have certain drag commands that react to URLs being
dragged there from a browser or any other way?
I would love to have a drag command for markdown… but I suppose it
would also be very useful for the HTML bundle etc.
Dan
Hi
I know Textmate has folding, but does it have a feature that old-
school folding editors called "enter fold"
i.e. the ability to hide everything *but* the contents of the fold.
Folding mode in emacs has this - I think the emacs term is
"restricting" the buffer.
I live by this feature - with the right keyboard shortcuts you can
fly around the file without ever scrolling.
If textmate has this, I'm probably going to switch, if not, is there
much chance of it making it into 2.0?
Tom.
There was some talk not too long ago about keyboard-only commits in
the Subversion bundle [1]. Chris Thomas said he would set up the
Enter key (not to be confused with the Return key) to act as the
commit button. However, this only works if you have an Apple
keyboard. Some of us (hint, hint) use non-Apple keyboards, and even
the ones that are designed for the Mac (they have a little Apple icon
on the command keys, for instance) may not have an Enter key [2]. Is
there anything that can be done to accommodate us?
Trevor
[1] http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2005-March/003341.html
[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006FRUI/002-4902042-8352038
On May 12, 2006, at 4:00 AM, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com
wrote:
> I suggest the following:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import sys, os
>
> oldtask = os.environ['TM_CURRENT_LINE']
> sys.stdout.write("DONE " + oldtask[4:])
>
> -Jacob
Jacob -
Cool! I haven't done much coding lately and I guess it shows.
Thanks for the help.
Mike
On May 12, 2006, at 2:01 AM, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com
wrote:
> To: TextMate users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] Linefeeds in commands & snippets
> Reply-To: TextMate users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com>
>
>
> This is a Python issue. Python writes a newline to the end of all
> print statements, which is where this is coming from. You could write:
>
> print newtask,
>
> which would not write a newline, but would add a space. In order to
> write -just- the text, this would work:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import os,sys
>
> def texter():
> oldtask = os.environ['TM_CURRENT_LINE']
> # oldtask = "Alligator"
> newtask = "DONE "
> for i in range (len(oldtask)):
> if i > 4:
> newtask = newtask + oldtask[i]
> sys.stdout.write(newtask)
>
> texter()
>
>
> Lindsay
Lindsay -
Thanks for the help, I thought it was something I was doing wrong in
TextMate.
Mike
A while ago, I was try to make a command to add height and width information
to turn a selected word " LBC0001A-1.tif " into code like:
<img src="LBC0001A-1.tif" height="800"/>
"sips", a built in command line tool seems to provide the required
facilities, if anyone is interested in making such a command.
sips -g all /Users/tim/Sites/favicon.png
pixelWidth: 16
pixelHeight: 16
typeIdentifier: public.png
format: png
formatOptions: default
dpiWidth: 95.987
dpiHeight: 95.987
samplesPerPixel: 4
bitsPerSample: 8
hasAlpha: yes
space: RGB
Can also resample and rotate images, etc.
tim
1) The age old problem of tabs versus spaces. Is there a way to have
a command run at file open to convert tabs to spaces or vice-versa?
2) Has anyone put out a bundle to allow hooking into the debugger?
3) Any Zope/Plone bundle in progress? I can't seem to find any.
Thanks.
After using the 'Xcode/Import Frontmost Project' command, for
commands in the newly imported project TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY is set to
'/'. I think that is an unfortunate choice. If for whatever reason it
can not be set to the 'real' project directory, I think it should
either not be defined at all or empty.
Gerd
I am trying to create a command that will replace text on a line with
new text (actually modified text from the current line). Here is the
code that I am using:
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
def texter():
oldtask = os.environ['TM_CURRENT_LINE']
# oldtask = "Alligator"
newtask = "DONE "
for i in range (len(oldtask)):
if i > 4:
newtask = newtask + oldtask[i]
print newtask
texter()
The problem that I have is that it inserts a line feed at the end of
the new text. Is there a way to prevent that? Thanks.
Mike
Hi,
I recently opened some BibTeX documents in TM (which I normally don't
do since I use BibDesk) and recognized the following problem:
TM tries to fold the BibTeX code, but the end of the BibTeX entries
are not reocgnized correctly.
My entries look like this:
@book{ros:02,
Address = {London},
Author = {Corey Ross},
Title = {The East German Dictatorship. Problems and Perspectives in
the Interpretation of the GDR},
Year = {2002}}
So, the fields are pretty-formatted by BibDesk, they are preceeded by
a tab.
This causes TM not to recognize the end of the entry.
If the entry looks like this:
@book{ros:02,
Address = {London},
Author = {Corey Ross},
Title = {The East German Dictatorship. Problems and Perspectives in
the Interpretation of the GDR},
Year = {2002}}
or like this:
@book{ros:02,
Address = {London},
Author = {Corey Ross},
Title = {The East German Dictatorship. Problems and Perspectives in
the Interpretation of the GDR},
Year = {2002}
}
everything works fine.
Is it possible to change the code folding to work with the first
version?
I suppose many BibTeX users on the Mac will have this problem, since
probably almost all of them work with BibDesk ...
Thanks in advance,
best regards
Matthias
--
Matthias Damm
mad(a)macpla.net
PGP key: http://macpla.net/MatthiasDamm.asc
PGP fingerprint: CED3 6074 7F7D 3148 C6F3 DFF2 05FF 3A0B 0D12 4D41
I always thought this was some simple text-formatting to do list,
much like iCal or any such thing, but it seems to possibly be a code-
centered project something TODO? Is there any way I can get some more
info?
(basicly, I did google a bit and didn't find anything, so I'm looking
for that "you should've found this googling you idiot"-link)
Andreas
Is there a bundle or macro available which would enable me to write
footnotes in plain text/markdown? In markdown there is a footnote
notation for hyperlinks, but I haven't seen any easy way to use it in
Textmate yet. ;)
Dan
On May 10, 2006, at 5:19 PM, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com
wrote:
> To: TextMate users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] What is TODO?
> Reply-To: TextMate users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com>
>
>
> On May 10, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Niko Dittmann wrote:
>
>> "todo" searches project-wide for code-comments with the strings
>> "todo", "fixme" and "changeme" and presents a list with the lines
>> and links to the files. very convenient to keep track of...
>> well... things you still have to do. try it!
>
> There is another one called "RADAR". I assume that's some sort of
> bug-tracking tag. Does anyone have more details about it?
>
> Trevor
I have been playing with TODO (actually, I'd like to build a GTD
bundle based on it). For some reason, nothing I label as RADAR shows
up in the TODO list.
Mike
I have read and seen the "edit in TextMate" functionality, but would
rather than having a hack use the Services menu for this. I have also
read that this was a functionality before that was removed. Is it
possible to add that back in easily? Those who don't want to have
this Services menuitem can then use e.g. Service Scrubber (http://
www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=servicescrubber) to remove it.
Or am I missing something here?
-e
--
egil helland / it consultant (mcse, web technology)
web: ikon.as / egil.net mob: +47-91315555
> As a shell script (i.e. just paste in body of command):
>
> echo "Aprox. page #$(( (TM_LINE_NUMBER+37) / 38 ))"
> echo "Aprox. total pages $(( `wc -l` / 38 + 1 ))"
Allan, I could kiss you. But I won't.
A quick addition to the LaTeX Bundle -- there was some mention of
"texdoc" on the TeX on OSX-Mailing list:
Command: "Lookup documentation of current word/package"
Shell script: texdoc $TM_CURRENT_WORD (no input, no output)
Scope: variable.parameter.name.package
with an addition to the language definition: (although I don't know
if the scope names are valid TextMate-speak)
{ name = 'meta.label.package.latex';
begin = '(\\(?:usepackage)\{)';
end = '(\})';
patterns = (
{ name = 'variable.parameter.name.package';
match = '[a-zA-Z,:0-9]+';
}
);
},
This command will then open the corresponding help file for a
selected package.
greets,
Dan
I don't speak any scripting language so I was hoping you all could
help me out with two simple commands.
1. Take the current line number, divide my 38 and display the result
as a tooltip that reads: Aprox. Page-Count for Current Line: XX
2. Take the total number of lines in the document, divide my 38 and
display the result as a tooltip that reads: Aprox. Page-Count for
Document: XX
Thanks in advance!
—oliver
> This should do what you need:
>
> npp=38
> res=$(echo `wc -l`)
> pretty () { rev <<<$1|perl -pe 's/(\d{3})(?=.)/$1,/g'|rev; }
> total=$(pretty $(cut <<<$res -d\ -f1))
> php -r "echo ceil($TM_LINE_NUMBER/$npp).'/'.ceil($total/$npp);"
I get the following error:
> Warning: Wrong parameter count for ceil() in Command line code on line 1 58/
I put together a simple bundle for editing Greasemonkey scripts:
http://adamv.com/dev/textmate/greasemonkey
The page documents the new scopes and snippets.
Not a lot to it, but editing a Greasemonkey script is mostly just
editing Javascript.
I can put it in the repository if anyone else wants to hack on it.
-Adam V.
http://adamv.com
Have you ever wanted to publish your source code with your syntax
highlighting intact? That is, formatted the way that TextMate sees
it? Well, thanks to a recent update to TextMate[1], it's now
possible. I've created two commands that are in the TextMate
subversion repository[2] that are in the Experimental bundle:
Create HTML from Document / Selection:
This command will take your entire document and create a new one
that is an HTML file which recreates the view of your document as
TextMate renders it. It also preserves the colors that you're using
as your current TextMate theme, since it generates the CSS from your
theme file. If you have a selection, this command will only output a
'<pre>' block for that section (instead of generating a full HTML
document plus stylesheet).
Create CSS from Theme:
This command creates a new CSS document that is based on your
current theme.
So, what is this good for? Well, if you want to publish snippets of
code, nicely highlighted, but don't want to create images. Besides,
textual examples are better than images since they're searchable.
So, you could create the CSS rules based on your theme, then add it
to your existing site's stylesheet. Then, you can invoke the "Create
HTML..." command to create the HTML.
Why did I do this? There are many syntax highlighting solutions out
there (indeed, TM itself has a few commands that do this kind of
thing, but they don't reliably reproduce the document the way TM sees
it). But this one leverages the document parsing TM does-- and
therefore, it works with any language definition that is in your
TextMate bundle set. It also doesn't require any additional software
to be installed.
Please report any errors you find to me. And thanks again to Allan
for adding support necessary to do this.
Brad Choate
http://bradchoate.com/
[1] - Release 948's "One can now access the document as parsed by
TextMate." new feature. So these commands require that release or later.
[2] - http://anon:anon@macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/
Experimental.tmbundle/Commands/
Eric thanks for the widget. It's great.
I have made a few small changes to the widget.
It perhaps looks slightly better, is resizeable, sorts the projects by name
(ignoring case) and only searches in the users home directory.
It can be found here:
http://email2ants.googlepages.com/TextMateProjects.wdgt.zip
Regards,
Anthony
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To: TextMate users
Subject: [TxMt] Anyone interested in...
A Dashboard widget that listed your textmate project files? I have a
saved search right now that lists all the textmate project files, and
thought a widget would be nice.
If anyone's interested, I'll toss something together ;)
Regards,
Eric
http://www.theaftermac.com/interview-allan-odgaard/
I still can't your product convinced me to move away from my beloved
Zend Studio. I've used the IDE since they day it came out (until I
discovered TextMate and was blown away)
Eric Coleman
Selecting text from the right to the left, stopping the selection
before the tab trigger does in fact allow for tab triggered snippets
with a selection.
tab_trigger<Selection_end>SELECTED_TEXT<Selection_start>
There are a couple of bad things about this.
There is no way to know how your selection was made, since you can't
see the caret when you have a selection.
That, and the TM_SELECTED_TEXT variable isn't available.
Making the TM_SELECTED_TEXT variable work shouldn't be too difficult
(I would imagine).
But making the caret visible with a selection would really be weird.
I'd still like it, but i may be the only one.
thomas Aylott—subtleGradient—oblivious(a)subtleGradient.com
A Dashboard widget that listed your textmate project files? I have a
saved search right now that lists all the textmate project files, and
thought a widget would be nice.
If anyone's interested, I'll toss something together ;)
Regards,
Eric
Is it possible to have Python fold a complete class
definition, rather than just the "class ..." statement
and the docstring? I looked at the bundle source code,
and I don't know if a regex (or more) can do it. It
seems like a Python parser is needed.
Just curious,
--Dave
Is there a way to automatically have TextMate change to a specified
theme based on the bundle that is selected?
An example is, when I select to make a Screenwriting bundle file, I'd
like it to automatically change to my screenwriting default theme
instead of whatever is currently there.
I've been extremely frustrated trying to figure this out.
Thanks in advance!
I have a SVN project with a few externals. Every time I go to
commit, it automatically includes these external folders in the
window and marks them with and X. What happens, is that if im not
actually commiting inside one of the external directories, the commit
fails.
What I want to do, is that if there is an "X" item, I want it
deselected by default. If you need a screen shot to understand what
I'm talking about, I can give it up.
If someone could either fix it or toss the code my way so I can mess
with it, it would be greatly appreciated.
Eric Coleman
I don't really understand why, but the "Edit in TextMate" command
works for me in Firefox, even though it is not visible from the Edit
menu at all. Or, more specifically, it works in my blog's post
composition window (Wordpress 2).
Does anyone know why?
Dan
It works fine from TextEdit. What might be up? Thanks,
Ben
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Running the Show TODO List command, I get the following error:
/tmp/temp_textmate.jfDKQP:25:in `initialize': No such file or
directory - /Users/markkalderon/Documents/TheHub/Research/
ColorPluralism/Drafts/Trunk/Philosophy.bib (Errno::ENOENT) from /tmp/
temp_textmate.jfDKQP:25:in `open' from /tmp/temp_textmate.jfDKQP:25
from /tmp/temp_textmate.jfDKQP:24:in `each' from /tmp/
temp_textmate.jfDKQP:24 from /tmp/temp_textmate.jfDKQP:23:in `call'
from /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Support/lib/textmate.rb:
63:in `scan_dir' from /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Support/
lib/textmate.rb:56:in `each' from /Library/Application Support/
TextMate/Support/lib/textmate.rb:56:in `scan_dir' ... 10 levels...
from /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Support/lib/textmate.rb:
56:in `each' from /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Support/lib/
textmate.rb:56:in `scan_dir' from /Library/Application Support/
TextMate/Support/lib/textmate.rb:73:in `each_text_file' from /tmp/
temp_textmate.jfDKQP:23
I am using TM 1.5.1 (985) on OS X 10.4.6. Any help would be appreciated.
All the best, Mark
I typically use TextMate for two different things: administrating/
updating websites and LaTeX. For Websites I use UTF8, but for LaTeX I
have to use Latin1 (since this is what my co-workers use).
However, when I load the website project, every time a file is saved,
Latin1 is used instead of UTF8. Is there a way to make that encoding
stick, preferably on a per-file basis (at least on a per-project
basis)? I suspect that this should be very easy to implement (via
metadata) …
Or is there another way to make TextMate respect my choice of encoding?
Thanks a lot.
Max
A newbie question. I'm looking for a way to update bumdles
automatically. I don't know much about subversion, but I got it
working, and could download bundles without a problem. Now I would
like to automatize this workflow. Copying the text onto Terminal
window is a little hassle. I tried saving the terminal window, but
only could save the Window Setting.
--
Teck
Hi,
I committed a complete rewrite of the Mercurial[1] bundle to the
repository.
The Mercurial shortcut is now ctrl + shift + M. I know this key
equivalent is already used in some other bundles, but it's the best
we could find.
I don't know if there are many Mercurial users here, but if you are
one, please give me your feedback.
[1]http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/
--
FredB
Not sure if this fits anywhere in the bundles, but I've added a
BalanceJr-like command to my personal bundle that makes navigating
Ruby, HTML and XML code a lot easier. Check it out if you're
interested: http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/05/02/new-feature-
intelligent-jump/
Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)
http://blog.inquirylabs.com/
I've noticed that the HTML comments are slightly restrictive. If I
have the following code:
<p>
some text, <!--- order now --->
</p>
<div class="msg">
....
it will highlight everything from the start of the comment, to the
end of the page. How do I fix that without going through all the
flies to fix the comments?
Eric Coleman
> I'm observing some strange behaviour with the YAML folding markers:
> the folding stop marker does not appear when there is some whitespace
> on the closing line this despite of the regex matching \s*. It works
> fine if the line is completely empty, however.
I haven't found a way around this. The problem is that if you have
nested folds:
key: "value"
another_key:
yet_another_key: "another_value"
It needs to choose one to fold to. In order for this to work it
matches the indent levels of the start and stop lines.
> I also thought it helpful to add [^#] after the initial ^ in the
> folding start marker regexp so that comments containing words
> followed by colons do not appear as folding markers (as with the
> default database.yml that Rails 1.1.2 generates).
Just added it to the repo now.
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I'm observing some strange behaviour with the YAML folding markers:
the folding stop marker does not appear when there is some whitespace
on the closing line this despite of the regex matching \s*. It works
fine if the line is completely empty, however.
I also thought it helpful to add [^#] after the initial ^ in the
folding start marker regexp so that comments containing words
followed by colons do not appear as folding markers (as with the
default database.yml that Rails 1.1.2 generates).
foldingStartMarker = '^[^#]\s*.*:(\s*\[?| &.+)?$';
-- Paul
If one opens a file in TextMate and then renames that file in the
Finder, TextMate does not pick up the change and saving the opened
file will result in the file being saved with its original name.
I only mention this as I am user coming from BBEdit and am used to it
picking up file name changes upon activating the editor window.
I'm not sure which is the best approach but I like the idea of files
not being dependent on their name; the ability to re-open a file
despite its name having been changed is a great thing so perhaps this
should apply to when a file is currently opened?
Thanks in advance,
-- Paul
I often hear in this list how Command-/ comments/uncomments the
selection with the appropriate commenting characters, however,
anytime I use it it _always_ uses C-style comments (/*...*/).
I have an up to date /Library/Application Support/TextMate checked
out from Subversion and I've poked at ~/Library/Application Support/
TextMate and couldn't find anything there that would create this
behavior.
Is there anything I need to do to enable this smart comments. And if
not, how can I debug this?
Thanks,
-Oscar
--
pgp fingerprint: BC64 2E7A CAEF 39E1 9544 80CA F7D5 784D FB46 16C1
sorry for so many messages...
>> I don't speak Perl, so I was just talking generally... but each of
>> those \t's is a tab, so maybe remove two?
>Yeah, it works to remove two of the tabs, but since I also don't speak
>Perl I can't tell why it's doing that. And that sort of bothers me,
>that it is clearly marked as inserting two, but it actually inserts
>four.
So it works when there is text to paste in, but when it falls back to
just positioning the cursor, only two tabs are inserted.
Hi list -
"xhtml2article" (in the Markdown bundle) has definitions to transform
xhtml meta-tags/info into LaTeX definitions/tags. Can I define this
meta-information, such as the author, in the Markdown file? If not,
how do I get this meta-info into LaTeX?
Thanks for any hint.
With regards
- Stefan
> I don't speak Perl, so I was just talking generally... but each of
> those \t's is a tab, so maybe remove two?
Yeah, it works to remove two of the tabs, but since I also don't speak
Perl I can't tell why it's doing that. And that sort of bothers me,
that it is clearly marked as inserting two, but it actually inserts
four.
Anyone speak Perl?
> Set the output to "Insert as snippet" and wrap it in ${0:...}? you'll
> need to escape the ... bit of course.
Do you mean this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$m1=$m2='';
$c=1;
while(<>)
{
if(/^\t{4}(.+)[\r\n]+$/)
{
$m1=$m2;
$m2=$1;
}
$c++;
last if($c==$ENV{'TM_LINE_NUMBER'});
}
print "\n\n\t\t\t\t\${0:\$m1}";
...'cause that seems to work but inserts two too many tabs now.
First off, Allan, for build 989 you're my hero.
Second,
> If I understand the problem correct, the script below does that.
> Input set to 'Entire Document', Output to 'Insert as Text'.
> Gerd
Seems like you understand it quite well. I'll test it over the next
few days to see if it holds up. Looks like it will.
One small thing... Ideally, the text that is grabbed and placed via
the script should end up being selected so that it can easily be
over-ridden. Is there an easy fix for the script that will do that?
Thanks a lot guys.
If you try to run an untitled Ruby file, the Ruby bundle saves a temp
file, and then runs that. In Python, we are first required to save the
file somewhere. I find myself saving lots of files in the trash or in
/tmp. What do people think of changing the Python run command to mimic
the Ruby run command? I would just change it myself, but perhaps
someone has a reason to prefer the existing behavior.
-Jacob
Allan recently isolated a bug I found to be in the regular expression
library TextMate uses and we're waiting for a response. While we wait
I was looking to implement the feature that crashed TextMate and I
hoped you all could help me out with some ruby or perl (or whatever)
voodoo.
The bug is explained here: http://ollieman.net/videos/find-bug.mov
The expected behavior is explained here: http://ollieman.net/videos/desired.mp4
It works the rest of the time, it's just when at the beginning of the
document that it crashes.
Thanks in advance for any help.
--oliver
P.S. Are these videos a good way to ask questions? I feel like it's
difficult to articulate without actually showing you.
> 1. When triggered the macro looks backwards from
> the cursor position for lines beginning with four tabs?
Yes. Specifically, four tabs followed by a letter, number or punctuation mark.
> 2. The first such line is skipped and the second such
> line inserted where the cursor is.
Two lines down from where the cursor is, yes.
> What is supposed to happen if there is only one such line
> in the document. (I know it crashes, but what is it suppose
> to do?)
Just insert the cursor in the expected position (two lines down and
four tabs in) with no text.
Hello all,
I'm relatively new to TextMate, only been using it for a few weeks,
and I have decided it quite possibly the best way for me to develop
my games, programs and websites in. Unfortunately it when I
downloaded it did not do any BlitzMax, which is one of the main IDE's
I use. I began to look around and I couldn't find one anywhere.
Anyway I began to develop my own, and I have just today gotten it to
a working stage. There are still limitations in it, which I'm looking
in to on how to correct.
Anyway, here is a link to a post on my blog about it, and where you
can download it. I hope people like it, as it has taken quite a bit
doing and learning of TextMate's bundle system.
Tom
http://www.freepgs.com/bluelaser/blog.php
When a snippet with the same tab trigger/key command is activated you
get a menu item with which one you would like to select.
Unfortunately you can't use [C-n or C-p][1] so you must either use
the mouse or the arrow keys. How about each snippet is assigned a
number which would activate the snippet?
[1]: Please fix this :)
-- Daniel
A new TmCodeBrowser version is available here:
http://www.cocoabits.com/TmCodeBrowser/
This update is recommended to all TmCodeBrowser users. It deals with
ctags occasionally hanging and prevents TextMate to hang also when
this happens.
To install:
- Save all open files in TextMate (just in case)
- Download and open the dmg
- Double-click on the bundle
TextMate will take care of the installation.
Gerd
When I watched the sqleditor screen-cast, I swear I watched him open
a per-project variable list (like the Preferences -> Advanced ->
Shell Variables).
Why don't I see this? and if it's there, how do I open it? I want to
set a bunch of variables per-project instead of globally.
Regards,
Eric Coleman
Greetings everybody,
When you're recording a macro, an ugly logo, which seems to be partly
taken from iPhoto's, appears at the bottom on the right hand corner
of the window. I replaced it with a beautiful red dot and here's the
result :

Of course, it's also pulsating, like the previous one.
If you like it, here's the file that you have to put in TextMate.app/
Contents/Ressources. Hit "Replace" at the message the Finder will
prompt.

Urbanose
POST
User-Agent: Xnntp/beta04 (PPC Mac OS 10.3)
Dear List,
I've recently discovered TextMate and am – so far - quite impressed because it
integrates so well with the environment (vim and emacs don't [yet]) and still
has some useful features and extensibility.
However, I have got two simple questions, to which I don't really find a good
answer on the web (my fault, probably):
– I'm not sure who develops the R bundle; the highlighting is quite okay, the
comments aren't (commenting uses C style by default; this doesn't work). I
copied over the Python or Perl definitions (#) with the right scope marker.
Is such a trivial change this worth asking for a svn account, or where should
such suggestions be directed?
– One feature from Emacs' reftex mode (for LaTeX) I'd like to have in TextMate
would be the recursive scanning for section commands, i.e. seeing all the
sections etc. from the current master document and all (recursively) included
files. Is this possible and I am to stupid to find it (perhaps using the
wrong search terms)? This is an extremely practical thing for longer
documents, because one can go from (the file containing) part I (or a file
included by it) to a chapter in (the file containing) part III (or a file
included by it).
Have a nice Labour Day,
Cheers,
Theorik
I seem to have discovered an infinite loop bug in ctags, which
TextMate depends on.
1. Create a new document
2. Paste in the text "This is a buggy <Java> program"
3. Change file type to Java
4. Save
At this point, TextMate beachballs and I have to force quit. After
that, I find that a ctags process is still running and consuming 100%
of the CPU. Can anyone reproduce this?
Trevor
P.S. TextMate 1.5.1 (948)
Hi all,
I've just watched the insert_html_tag movie, and I cannot reproduce the
"overtype the tag name"
action, where replacing the opening tag - p by div - is mirrored at the
closing tag.
When I do it, the closing tag is not modified.
"tab into the body of the tag" doesn't work either (it just inserts a
tab character, instead of having the cursor jump into the tag body area).
What am I doing wrong?
Alain
Hey all,
This is a bit OT, as I'm pretty sure the problem is not restricted to
the mate binary, but seems to be affecting any shell command that
triggers a GUI event. /usr/bin/open is throwing the same error, as is
growlnotify.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be related to? Thanks,
Ben
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Regarding the recent R discussion, this came across the R users list
today. The author has put together some scripts that interacts with
the console version of R via vim. He's reported that it doesn't yet
work on OS X, but perhaps his code may be useful for working out some
of the problems/goals that people have been raising with TextMate/R.
http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke/index.php?page=vim_R_linux
Cheers-
-Alan
Explain this, anyone!
Type "chocolate" then press the keyboard shortcut for "Insert Open/
Close Tag (With Current Word)" ("^-<).
I get
<chocolate />
When I expected to see
<chocolate></chocolate>
eh?
"pudding" gives me
<pudding></pudding> but
"chocolatepudding" gives me
<chocolatepudding />
Is this one of them Easter Eggs? ;)
eo
Hi,
I just tried dragging several selected image files from a Finder
window into an HTML document, and the code it generates is very
incorrect:
<img src="/Users/john/Pictures/P1010012.JPG" width="1024" height="768"
alt="<img src="/Users/john/Pictures/P1010013.JPG" width="1024"
height="768" alt="P1010013" />" />
It looks like it's putting the second image tag into the placeholder
for the alt attribute. Dragging more will continue the problem over
and over.
Is this a known problem?
Thanks!
jt
Hi,
Just for the record, what is the "official" convention for naming
snippets? For example, I have a snippet like this:
array date(${1:\$array}; 0)
set array($1; ${2:date})
What should the associated snipped be named?
Regards,
Aparajita
www.aparajitaworld.com
"If you dare to fail, you are bound to succeed."
- Sri Chinmoy | www.srichinmoylibrary.com
There seems to be a bug in the HTML display window of TextMate.
1. Save the following Java code as test.java (the misspelling of
"String" is intentional):
class test
{
private java.util.LinkedList<Strin> blah;
}
2. Open the file and hit Command-B to build
On my TextMate, I see a line that looks like this:
private java.util.LinkedList<Strin> blah;
It looks like TextMate is properly escaping the greater-than
character but forgot about the less-than character. Is there a way to
fix this on my end, or do I have to wait until the next bug-fix
release of TextMate?
Trevor
I'm thinking about buying TextMate and am curious
about future versions - such as:
1. What's planned? Is there a roadmap somewhere?
2. When?
For me, sftp integration is a big deal. Right now I check out locally and use
rsync to update the server (before you make other recommendations, I've tried
cyberduck, interarchy, I DO use SVN, etc.), and it's borderline tolerable.
Joe
I know this doesn't belong here, but Im looking for some quick
information:
I have the following structure:
branches/
tags/
trunk/
In my repository. Inside trunk is version 1 of our application. I
want to start on 1.1 which is actually a major rewrite of almost
everything.
So I create a 1.1 branch. and remove all files in the branch
Now, when I'm finished with the 1.1 branch, how do I merge it into
trunk? can/do I just remove everything in trunk and merge the branch
stuff down? The entire file structure is changing for version 1.1
Any insight would be appreciated :)
Eric Coleman
I have a follow-up to Aparajita's recent thread about adding
FileMerge support to TextMate. I really like the idea, but as Chris
pointed out, it shouldn't be necessary to clone the Subversion bundle
or add special environment variables to TextMate. That's because
Subversion isn't hard-coded to use diff; it can run any utility you
want, as long as its arguments are diff-compatible. All you need to
do is add a diff-cmd setting to ~/.subversion/config.
The problem, though, is that TextMate is hard-coded for diff. If you
look at the svn_diff.rb file in the Subversion bundle, it forces svn
to run diff instead of the user's diff-cmd. I think the best
solution, then, is to change this file so that it's not hard-coded.
Not only would this add support for FileMerge [1], but it would add
support for any other diff utility, as well.
With that goal in mind, I've modified svn_diff.rb and posted my
changes here:
http://vocaro.com/trevor/files/svn_diff.rb
To try it out, simply replace your existing svn_diff.rb with this
one. You'll then be able to specify a custom diff utility by setting
the diff-cmd variable in ~/.subversion/config [2]. The next time you
run a Subversion diff command, TextMate will automatically run your
preferred diff utility. If you comment out the diff-cmd line (or
delete the config file entirely), TextMate will go back to using the
standard diff utility as before.
The only functional change here is that if you specify a custom diff-
cmd and a file has no changes, you'll see no output when doing a diff
on it, not even a tooltip [3]. The problem here is that with the
regular diff, no output means no changes, but with custom (graphical)
diff utilities, usually nothing is printed to stdout, even when there
are changes. So, the command can't simply look at stdout and know
whether changes were detected or not.
With that caveat, I hope some of you can try this out and let me know
what you think. I'm hoping that with the proper vetting it can be
checked into the repo. After all, it's a pretty low-impact change. No
new bundles, no new commands, just different behavior when specifying
a custom diff-cmd. (If none is specified, TextMate works exactly as
it did before.)
Trevor
[1] Unfortunately, opendiff (FileMerge's command-line launcher) is
not diff compatible. You'll need a wrapper script like this one:
http://vocaro.com/trevor/files/filemerge (It's buggy, though.
Although it works great for diffs against BASE, whenever the network
is involved, such as diffs with HEAD or PREV, it sometimes works,
sometimes doesn't. Can anyone help?)
[2] I've posted an example config file here: http://vocaro.com/trevor/
files/config
[3] When no custom diff-cmd is specified, you'll get a tooltip that
says "No differences found."
Three times a charm, or so they say. Now properly:
I've created a bundle for textmate that allows one to edit data (for instance, html templates) stored inside a MySQL database. More info and a simple screencast can be found at http://vivified.net/journal/sqledit-textmate-bundle
I hope someone finds this useful -- I did.
cheers,
Bastiaan Terhorst
Hello,
Is there anyway for texmate to have the gutter stick to the left side
of the window even when scrolling horizontally? I've seen it
mentioned several times in the wiki and the consensus seemed to be
that it would be added in 1.3, but in 1.5.1 I still can not find it.
Thanks
Mark
I'm interested if anyone else can duplicate this behavior.
It seems like I'm hitting some kind of performance ceiling when typing
in lines with more than 400 characters.
1. type "lorem" then tab.
2. click in the middle of the generated text-block and repeat.
3. repeat this several times.
On my machine (with a completely fresh install of TextMate build985)
my typing slows down to about half-speed.
The key here is that the slowdown only happens when you are typing in
the middle of the text-block; that is to say, in the middle of a very
long line. When typing on a new line, everything seems normal.
Is TextMate ill-equipted to handle lines this long or is my machine
messed up? Anyone else out there see this same thing? Any suggestions?
Is it on the agenda to add support for folders within the bundles, so
we can group commands, snippets, etc.?
I've got about 50 commands in my bundle now and I'm sure they are all
very confusing to anyone that opens up the commands, but if I would
group the commands (arbitrarily) I'm sure people could find things in
the bundle much faster.
Hi,
Is there a keyboard shortcut to close the most recently opened HTML
tag? For example, I typed
<h1>something
then hit some key combo that would automatically insert the </h1>? (I
was just watching the TurboGears video and it looked like he was
auto-closing his tags. It looks like an older version of TextMate.)
I searched the online manual and did a search of this mailing list,
but couldn't find anything.
Thanks!
jt
It looks like the latest update to the Active 4D bundle has claimed
the .html extension. If I open an HTML file that wasn't created in
TextMate, the language gets set to Active4D (HTML). Sure, it's easy to
switch, but how do I change it back so it defaults to HTML?
Thanks!
jt
thanks a lot for this Chris...i will definitely be taking this for a
test drive, as i am using ExpressionEngine for a few of my current
projects...keep us updated with any enhancements/additions you make
to it....