- TextMate - lists.macromates.com

by Mark Young

On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:20 PM, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com wrote: > Send textmate mailing list submissions to > textmate(a)lists.macromates.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > textmate-owner(a)lists.macromates.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of textmate digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: ODB, FTP and external editors (Allan Odgaard) > 2. Re: ODB, FTP and external editors (Allan Odgaard) > 3. Re: esc auto-complete? (Allan Odgaard) > 4. Re: Line Up/Down for Arrow Keys? (Allan Odgaard) > 5. Re: Editing a graphic in PS (Allan Odgaard) > 6. Re: ActionScript bundle (Rob Bevan) > 7. Re: pdfLaTeX, b4 (Allan Odgaard) > 8. Re: ActionScript bundle (Allan Odgaard) > 9. Re: OS X Services (Allan Odgaard) > 10. Re: TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette (Allan Odgaard) > 11. Re: TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette (Allan Odgaard) > 12. Re: pdfLaTeX, b4 (Sune Foldager) > 13. Re: Inputs in Text Window (Allan Odgaard) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:27:14 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] ODB, FTP and external editors > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <a42ddd3ea798ff41b098a4c0ea2c88dc(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:20, Eric Hsu wrote: > >> I myself am more inconvenienced by the malfunction of Services... it >> was really helping Pages be more of a text processor. But now, saving >> and closing in TM doesn't seem to send the edited text back to the >> calling program (in this case Pages), which then hangs waiting. > > Ah, hadn't realized it, but that's actually the same problem (since the > service also use the external editor API). > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:31:19 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] ODB, FTP and external editors > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <e8c128481519c172547a3e13ca95a273(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:11, Brad Miller wrote: > >> over on NetNewsWire, Brent does both private and public beta releases. >> The public one's go to version tracker etc. but the private ones are >> only available to people on the mailing list, including a link. Not >> sure how the autoupdate would adapt. I suppose you could have >> preferences like Quicksilver... > > What I probably could do was have a select few which gets the beta > before others, and they have maybe 8 hours to report problems. But most > likely that wouldn't really work, and so far the betas seems to mostly > work for the majority, and there's always the ability to downgrade (all > previous versions remain online). > > If I add another stage, like nightly builds or private betas, I should > probably instead bump the current betas to minors. Maybe then ADC news > would also carry new releases as news... > > The main reason I do betas as betas is because the features which debut > in these are unlikely to be complete. > >> I hope you can release a patch for this one since it severely limits >> my ability to get things done. > > Yes, when I get back to coding it's probably the first I'll look at. > But as Eric said, you can always downgrade. All previous versions > remain online. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:42:37 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] esc auto-complete? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <f166365d35cce20dde5f0e48fa62e416(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 18:47, Simon Gregory wrote: > >> I'm trying to add a few snippets to the Actionscript bundle to include >> some of the shortcuts that Actionscript developers would be used to >> after coding in Flash. > > Great, let me know if you want access to the repository. The current > ActionScript bundle has no maintainer (but is by Rob Bevan). > >> I've got the tab completion working fine but I'm used to pressing esc >> then the key combination to invoke an auto complete and was hoping >> that someone could tell me how to get this working. > > That's not currently possible, other than recoding a macro that does > 'tab' and bind that to the escape key. > >> If you've time then an explanation of Activation: Key Equivalent > > This is a _single_ key (with optional modifiers). > >> and Activation: Input Pattern would also be useful as I can't find any >> documentation. > > Input pattern is not working yet. What it will be is a non-greedy > regular expression matched against the typed input. Mainly useful for > having macros executed on certain editing patterns. For example the XML > bundle has a snippet that expands to: <$1></$1>. Here one could match > expansion of this snippet, giving the tag a name, pressing return > inside the tag (w/o typing anything). The macro would then add indent > and move the end tag down an extra line. > > This coupled with the upcoming scope system (which will be able to > limit the activation methods to specific language elements) will allow > for some pretty neat stuff ;) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:46:29 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Line Up/Down for Arrow Keys? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <e87b1e752ac3cb869dd9501c2ed46ae1(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:39, Wayne Larsen wrote: > >> I love the new file chooser, however, is it possible for textmate to >> allow line up or line down to be used in place of the arrow keys for >> list navigation? [...] > > I'll look into it -- it should use the standard key bindings, but > unfortunately the way I currently pull off the thing about moving the > selection in the inactive table view while the search string has focus, > doesn't play well with the normal event system :/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:47:33 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Editing a graphic in PS > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <7a34871ca7b41e2ec21d363468d09c24(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 0:58, Eric Curtis wrote: > >> I thought it was pulling the name and that Finder was what would open >> it, which it did in a way. Might I suggest changing it to: >> >> Open file with Default App > > I took the title from Xcode. But I'll check if Launch Services could > give me the name of the application that will actually open the file. > That would be very nice. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:52:53 +0000 > From: Rob Bevan <robbevan(a)xpt.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] ActionScript bundle > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <9FB84FB2-749B-11D9-92D9-00039396DAC0(a)xpt.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > On 1 Feb 2005, at 21:42, Allan Odgaard wrote: > >> Great, let me know if you want access to the repository. The current >> ActionScript bundle has no maintainer (but is by Rob Bevan). > > Hi Allan, > > Sorry, I've been meaning to pick this up again. I have a few snippets > and commands to add to the bundle. If you let me have access I'll do > this soon (and maybe coordinate with Simon). > > Cheers, > Rob > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:55:17 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] pdfLaTeX, b4 > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <1059af41f19e5501c1ebdeee8a7aba5f(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:01, Robert Ullrey wrote: > >> Quick question though. Now I would like to use XeLateX as my >> typesetting engine so I can change fonts through fontspec. How can I >> change the bundle command in PDF LateX to use XeLateX ($xelatex >> [file] in the terminal)? > > Select Automation -> Run Command -> Edit Commands > > > Here you'll find LaTeX / PDF LaTeX which is the current command. > Duplicate it and make your changes. It's a lot of lines, but the > essense is the pdflatex which output is piped into perl, that makes the > errors HTML anchors. > > Ask if there's anything. > >> P.S., It would also be nice to be able to use ConTeXt ($texexec) > > It shouldn't be a problem to modify the command to use ConTeXt instead. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:58:32 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] ActionScript bundle > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <9bb570ab93548d471c013278eeae51eb(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:52, Rob Bevan wrote: > >> Sorry, I've been meaning to pick this up again. I have a few snippets >> and commands to add to the bundle. If you let me have access I'll do >> this soon (and maybe coordinate with Simon). > > Done! > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:00:29 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] OS X Services > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <5d65196ad5d6f66a0020658d8bfb25e8(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:12, Eric Curtis wrote: > >> Perhaps I am doing something wrong put when I highlight a chunk of >> text and execute the service nothing happens... > > This must be the missing ODB editor support in beta 4. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:01:58 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <7d1ba8bbc17e9e74091500a4cec84643(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 20:51, Chris Messina wrote: > >> I would also like to be able to drag n' drop a snippet onto a >> selection and have the snippet wrap around my selection. > > Ehm... how? Shouldn't the snippet then somehow specify where the > selection should go, and if so, would this be any different than what > you currently can do, other than the way you activate it? > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:07:11 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <6e556256733582045ea04f6677a1489b(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Jan 31, 2005, at 16:05, Jon Raphaelson wrote: > >> Actually, some sort of floating palette with all of the current >> languages stuff (commands, snippets, macros) would be handy. > > Okay -- but I'd prefer not to spend any time on this before after 1.1. > And I'm btw changing my plans a little, so 1.1 will be in a few weeks, > and I'll just do 5-10 1.1.x releases instead of having 1.1 in beta for > half a year ;) > > Hopefully no-one feels cheated that some of the stuff I've promised for > 1.1 then will be 1.1.x instead. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:18:27 +0100 > From: Sune Foldager <cryo(a)cyanite.org> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] pdfLaTeX, b4 > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <43fca7a105bc5f45bf2a1ad1fcfc428c(a)cyanite.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On 1. feb 2005, at 14:35, Brad Miller wrote: > >> The latest unstable version of tetex from the fink archive appears to >> be several versions out of date [...]. > > Yes, in fact the teTeX package doesn't have the newest Web2C TeX > version at all no matter what distro you pick. The i-Installer one is a > mixture of teTeX (for the foundation) and a binary distro called > TeX-live for the programs (tex, pdftex, dvips etc.). teTeX is the most > popular package for *nix as far as I am aware, so it's rather odd that > it's behind like this. And too bad. But at least it can be worked > around on the mac. > > -- > Sune. > :: the Cottage of Lost Play. > :: http://cyanite.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:17:51 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Inputs in Text Window > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <03fac328adafa26e4d9eb5f52aa2b3c3(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Jan 27, 2005, at 17:26, Mr. Robert Ullrey wrote: > >> [...] I am still frustrated with changing inputs (e.g., greek) as well >> as not being able to use input engines like "Spell Checker". Ant >> estimate on this bug fix? > > Well, the best I can do is say that in half a year, I expect 90% of the > things reported since release should have been taken care of ;) > > I know it's not of much help, but the more exact estimate I give, the > more chance there is that it won't be correct. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > textmate mailing list > textmate(a)lists.macromates.com > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate > > > End of textmate Digest, Vol 5, Issue 6 > ************************************** > > -- Mark Young Virtual Design House, Inc. 231 South Bemiston, Suite 100 Clayton, MO 63105 Phone: 314-482-3377 E-Mail: mark.young(a)vdhinc.com

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Re: textmate Digest, Vol 5, Issue 10

by Tobias Buckell

> Oh, I just realized that Ulysses has a fullscreen mode...you can tell > how much I've used it. :-) TB: Ulysses does. However, Ulysses requires me to hop through some really weird activation loops to potentially buy it, and just to test it. It also just looks awful in interface, and the method of opening documents and project management is awkward. I think Textmate is a better handler of all the various things I do, html, php/mysql/movabletype, articles, novels, todo lists, etc. Textmate is also *snappy* when I use it, the documents load up *like that* when I double click them. I like that! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ By day I'm a mild-mannered tech worker, by night, a Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. You can find out more about my fiction at my website at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com where you can read my weblog, join my newsletter, find excerpts or free fiction, and find out where you can buy my fiction... Coming Soon: -novel "Crystal Rain" from Tor Books (2006) -novel "Ragamuffin" from Tor Books (TBA) You can find my short stories in these anthologies out now or coming soon: -Anakoinosis - I Alien (April 2005) -Necahual - So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial SF&F (Oct. 2004) -Aerophilia - All Star Zeppelin Stories (Sep. 2004) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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rave

by Tobias Buckell

I'm truly and deeply impressed with this program. I'm working on my second novel, due to be turned in this September and am about 15,000 words into it. Previously I used TextEdit to create each chapter, used omnioutliner to manage the chapter structure and create the outline and do rearranging, and then merged all the files into Word to finish it up, and then had to edit it. I started the current novel using that system, then switched to a program called 'copywrite' which is cool, gave me some of the organization features combined with a basic text editor, but it's a bit slow when I click around quickly, and I hate having the program get in the way of my creative process/writing, which is why I started testing programs tonight to see if I could find something better. That and now that I've seen this program's project handling I'm deeply in love. But there is just one thing I was hoping I could include on a feature request to spur me on. Full screen editing! The reason I purchased a copy of copywrite is that they said full screen editing would be coming, which is where I press a button and the program takes over the screen and I have nothing but text and a screen. This is the greatest procrastination breaker, and the only program besides copywrite that looks to have this feature is MacJournal. Right now I'm seriously considering drafting in MacJournal, then copy and pasting into Textmate, but man, I'd pay extra for the full screen feature, it's worth it. Secondly, I've only played with this program for a few minutes, but I may be converting my Getting Things Done 'Next Actions' list to it and using documents to go to sync the plain folder text files for project management. Best, Tobias Buckell +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ By day I'm a mild-mannered tech worker, by night, a Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. You can find out more about my fiction at my website at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com where you can read my weblog, join my newsletter, find excerpts or free fiction, and find out where you can buy my fiction... Coming Soon: -novel "Crystal Rain" from Tor Books (2006) -novel "Ragamuffin" from Tor Books (TBA) You can find my short stories in these anthologies out now or coming soon: -Anakoinosis - I Alien (April 2005) -Necahual - So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial SF&F (Oct. 2004) -Aerophilia - All Star Zeppelin Stories (Sep. 2004) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Re: [TxMt] ActionScript bundle

by Simon Gregory

>> I have a few snippets >> and commands to add to the bundle. If you let me have access I'll do >> this soon (and maybe coordinate with Simon). > > Done! I've completed all the usual key combo snippets found in flash and sent them through to Rob. Along with a quick class template. Allan - thanks for the explanations of Activation: Key Equivalent and Activation: Input Pattern, I'm looking forward to seeing the input pattern in action. cheers, Simon

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TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette

by Chris Messina

I realized after seeing a HyperEdit screenshot that having a floating snippets palette would be immensely useful in TextMate. I've mocked up how I might think you could implement this, focusing the selected snippets on the current editing mode... In any case, I don't think that snippets belong in a hierarchical menu, and as much as I would like for you to be able to stick to minimal modal interfaces, I think that in this case, it's worth adding one more. Chris -- Do the evolution. Get Firefox! <http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=5&t=4> Quote of the moment: /"Simplicity is in taking the elegant path. It is also a conscious choice-- to achieve simplicity one must eschew complexity. Simple things must be simple."/ -- author unknown

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Small Rename bug

by Fred B.

While creating a new file in TM, I accidently typed a capital letter. After, it was impossible to change it with "rename" (error beep). I guess it's because it's the same name, only with different capitalization... -- Fred

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GREP Weirdness

by Ben Jackson

Hi all, Pleased to join the list. I'm excited about the potential of this software. So GREP is acting up... when I search ^\s*(?:\w+ +?)+.+$ TextMate crashes without warning. This string works fine in TextWrangler/BBEdit. Some other strings have behaved unexpectedly. Is this a known issue? Also, the program crashes if there are errors in the GREP syntax. Without highlighting, these are not easy to avoid (maybe one for B5). -- Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento INCOMUM Design & Conceito +55 (21) 9127-2819 ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

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pdfLaTeX, b4

by Sune Foldager

So what's the deal with the -halt-on-error flag shipped from TM to pdfLaTeX? My pdflatex (pdfTeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159-1.10b; from the teTeX package) doesn't dig that flag at least. -- Sune. :: the Cottage of Lost Play. :: http://cyanite.org

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Making pretty pdf's with LaTeX

by Sune Foldager

Now that it seems we all need to use the i-Installer TeX distro in order to play nicely with TextMate, I'd like to recomend people to install the TeX CM-Super package also found with i-Installer. This basically makes pdflatex (and dvips etc.) store Type-1 fonts in the created pdf's and ps's, instead of on-demand created bitmap fonts from metafont sources (which is default). True those bitmap fonts are usually high-DPI (sometimes 600), but a) Most viewers on X11 _hate_ bitmap fonts, and display a crappy result even for 600dpi fonts. b) When you zoom, you see the edges starting to show. c) Vektor fonts are _always_ preferable IMO, and might even take up less space :-). Just install the package and it will be used automatically. Note: It's a rather big download. -- Sune. :: the Cottage of Lost Play. :: http://cyanite.org

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no-frills svn status for b4

by Chris Thomas

WorkingDir=`pwd` export WorkingDir echo 'Subversion status' echo '<p>' echo '<tt>' echo $WorkingDir echo '<p>' svn status | \ perl -pe 's/(.*?)(\s+)(.*)\n/<b>$1<\/b> <a href="txmt:\/\/open?url=file:\/\/$ENV{'WorkingDir'}\/$3">$3<\/a><br>/' Show as HTML.

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Inputs in Text Window

by Mr. Robert Ullrey

A while back, early December I think, I read that there was going to be work on allowing TextMate to 'preview' text being givin to it by the system. I am still frustrated with changing inputs (e.g., greek) as well as not being able to use input engines like "Spell Checker". Ant estimate on this bug fix? Thanks Robert

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Line Up/Down for Arrow Keys?

by Wayne Larsen

I love the new file chooser, however, is it possible for textmate to allow line up or line down to be used in place of the arrow keys for list navigation? I'd love to do "Cmd-T Search String C-n C-n". If I'm going to move my hand off to the arrow keys, I might as well just move it a little further and use the mouse... If this is already possible, please enlighten me! Thanks, Wayne

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esc auto-complete?

by Simon Gregory

I'm trying to add a few snippets to the Actionscript bundle to include some of the shortcuts that Actionscript developers would be used to after coding in Flash. I've got the tab completion working fine but I'm used to pressing esc then the key combination to invoke an auto complete and was hoping that someone could tell me how to get this working. If you've time then an explanation of Activation: Key Equivalent and Activation: Input Pattern would also be useful as I can't find any documentation. Thanks, Simon

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Editing a graphic in PS

by Eric Curtis

I was noticing that if I right click in the project drawer a file will give me an option to reveal or open in the finder. Is there a way to add to this list so that I can open in photoshop? Another thing I would most likely do is add a reveal in pathfinder as I do not use the finder much. Thanks, Eric

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ODB, FTP and external editors

by James Adam

I just downloaded the new version of Cyberduck, and it looks like TextMate isn't prompting the ftp application to reupload the file after saving. I've tried this in Fugu and seen the same behaviour. SubEthaEdit works, so the issue would seem to like with TM. I thought we had ODB support in this editor?

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Suggestion: Folding behavior modification

by Eric Curtis

I was recently working with folding and noticed a dangerous behavior that I would like see changed if possible. I was working on an html document with the setup something like: <div id="section_1">... (dangerous place to backspace) <div id="section_2">... (dangerous place to backspace) <div id="section_3">... (dangerous place to backspace) What I noticed was if your cursor was on one of the lines that I labeled (dangerous place to backspace) above and you backspaced it would delete the entire folded content. What is especially troublesome is that the only indication that it happened is the little ... graphic disappears. The behavior I would like to suggest is that if you backspace in one of the above situations the fold opens automatically and one character is deleted. This way if I really did want to delete it all I can select it and do so otherwise I am given a clear indication of what happened. Sincerely, Eric Curtis

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TextMate Command as an independent process?

by kumar mcmillan

Hi. [file under feature request] not sure if this would be possible ... could a Command process run independently of TextMate? For example, On Mondays the backup runs on our dev server which slows down rsync from my workstation. I have rsync mapped to a command to send changes to the dev server. When rsync runs slow, all of TextMate hangs until the rsync process is complete. It would be nice though if I could continue working while it rsynced my project files. I obviously haven't thought about this too hard because what if the command is set to replace text or something. hmm... well thought I would put it out there anyway in case there is a way to do it. k

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Feature suggestion: Open file as edit vs. browse

by Anders Isaksson

Hi all, I have been using TextMate since December last year and I have found myself using it like more and more as some sort of Finder replacement. At least for text-files that I can open and edit in TextMate. As TextMate is my primary programming environment where I edit source code, ini-files, etc, I have a problem when I open a file for "browsing". I mean when I open a file with no intention to edit it but to read it, copy code sections, check how certain functions are implemented, etc. The problem, or let me say the inconvenience, is that the file remains open as a tab and I have to manually close it. I could think of two ways to open a file: 1 - For editing, 2 - For browsing. When a file has been opened for editing TextMate would have the same behaviour as today. When a file has been opened for browsing I could think of a behaviour that close the file as soon as I leave it. For now I have no idea on how to select between open edit vs. open browse but one way could be to use a combination of ctrl, alt or command key to open browse. Kind Regards /Anders I -- Anders Isaksson - anders(a)isazone.com Vänersborg, Sweden www.isazone.com - www.stugmarknad.se

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Move Selection

by Tim Martens

Is it possible to move selection "word left/right" as opposed to just "column left/right" and "line up/down?" This is something I do often.

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Append to Each Line question

by Fred B.

Hi, I just had the chance to try "Append to each line of Selection" and I'm wondering if it would be possible to be able to "backspace" the end of all lines or even moving the cursor and append to each line at that position. This would make this feature much more useful when: -You have to remove a closing tag before adding stuff -You want to add stuff before the closing tab. -You want to replace the closing tag -etc. Which is pretty often for me. Maybe this would be more complicated to implement, I don't know, but this would be one more killer feature in TM for sure. It's good to know you've bet on the good horse. ;)

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LaTeX syntax enhancements.

by Brad Miller

In an effort to avoid actual writing this afternoon, I decided to add some enhancements to the LaTeX syntax bundle. Here's what I've done: \textbf{foobar} -> highlights with textbf as the usual maroonish/purplish command color but foobar is bolded in black \textit{foobar} -> sames as above but foobar is italicized in black \texttt{foobar} -> same as above but in a teletype font, ha, no really, its underlined. Added highlighting for strings like: `foo' and ``foo'' These are colored in the same green as math. I find this one really helpful as it also points out when I've forgotten to use the proper pairing of quotes. I thought about highlighting "foo" in red to really remind me that its wrong. Added $ to the list of smart typing pairs. I don't know about the rest of you but 99% of the time when I type a $ in LaTeX its to do math. I also brightened up that maroonish purplish color just slightly since it seemed a bit dim to me. Since these changes seem generally useful and non-controversial (except maybe the color change). I'd be happy to contribute these to the subversion repository if Alan would grant me an account. However, since there are already at least three people in the history file I thought I would post my ideas for further discussion. Any requests? Brad -- Brad Miller, PhD Assistant Professor Luther College http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller jabber: bnmnetp(a)jabber.org

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Bundle distribution principle?

by David Wooten

Greetings all, Just thinking a little about the bundle-inclusion-principle. There's some pretty strong evidence that Allan is a fan of Quicksilver, and it brought to mind the idea that the TMer could download only those bundles (s)he would use. In my case, pretty much exclusively LaTeX. I would guess that, unlike Quicksilver plugins (?), the extra bundles don't have an effect on performance per se, but there is a certain pleasure in being parsimonious. ;) D. Wooten

20 years, 10 months

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Popup instead of ESC-cycle

by Emil Eriksson

>> I'd also like to see a popup displaying the various auto-completion >> options instead of the ESC-cycle solution. > > I've added it as a request. > Oooh, I've had wet dreams about a popup instead of the current behaviour. A slight exaggeration, but count this as my +1. // Emil Eriksson

20 years, 10 months

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Syntax Highlighting Selection & Command Output Window

by Chu

Some basic things I couldn't figure out: -Is it possible to assign key shortcuts to "Syntax Highlight As" menu for different languages. Right now I launch TextMate & use it for writing quick scripts in the default New Document window which has no syntax highlighting and it is a pain to go to the menu and select the language. -Going with the previous point, can we set the default Syntax Highlight language for the New Document. -What's up with the Command Output Window. It has a huge empty White block on top & dragging the resize bar brings an empty grey block at the bottom. Unless I am missing something, it sure can use some redesign & have features like multiple buffers for each script/selection run but in an elegant configurable way and/or optional output appending in the same window with a divider etc.

20 years, 10 months

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Auto-Refresh the project drawer

by Christian Schwanke

Hi, it seems to me, that the project drawer does not allow automatic or manuel refreshment. This is quite a drawback to my mind. I think it would be great to have a manual refresh-button/command. It would be even greater to have some kind of automatic refresh every x seconds/minutes. Regards. Christian

20 years, 10 months

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Better Python bundle?

by Russell E. Owen

Anyone got a bundle for python that works better? The built in one uses bizarre colors, the folding support doesn't work properly (and, less importantly, the nifty automatic quote closing doesn't handle """ and ''' quoted strings). I looked at the wiki, but didn't see anything for python. Any hints on improving python support would be appreciated. Regards, -- Russell

20 years, 10 months

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no-frills ctags

by Chris Thomas

I got curious. Here's no-frills (and no-warranty) ctags lookup suitable for use with the TM command editor. Select the identifier you're looking for and run this command to find it. Tested with the output from the ancient ctags command installed with Mac OS X. It doesn't support any 'ex' commands except pattern matching. It probably does not work with the extended ctags format, but it would be trivial to make the necessary modifications. There is one problem, however: either my URI syntax is wrong or TextMate's 'txmt://' handler doesn't seem to be handling the 'line' parameter. It would be nice to be able to access this command from the contextual menu. ruby <<END search_string = ENV['TM_SELECTED_TEXT'] exit if search_string == "" # find the tags file in the folder containing the active file tagfile_path = File.dirname(ENV['TM_FILEPATH']) + "/tags" tags = File.open(tagfile_path, "r").read tagarray = tags.scan( /(#{search_string})\t(.*?)\t\\/\\^(.*)\\\$\\/\n/ ) linearray = tagarray.collect do |t| puts t.join("\t") identifier = t[2] path = t[1] sourcefile = File.open(path, "r") while( sourcefile.gets ) break if \$_ =~ Regexp.new(Regexp.escape(identifier)) end sourcefile.lineno end tagarray.each_with_index do |t, index| puts "#{t[1]}:#{linearray[index]} #{\$_}" command = %Q{open txmt://open?url=file://#{File.expand_path(t[1])}&line=#{linearray [index]}} puts command system(command) end END

20 years, 10 months

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Feature Req: Big text areas in Find&Replace

by Duarte Carrilho da Graça

Hello ATM, in the find & replace dialogs (both for the signle file and project-wide), there are single line areas to type the text, even tho you can paste multiple lines there, its difficult to scroll through them. I think it'd be really good to have a box with a few lines (i.e assume the multi-line capability) Regards Duarte Carrilho da Graça

20 years, 10 months

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Re: [TxMt] Auto-Refresh the project drawer

by Christian Schwanke

>> it seems to me, that the project drawer does not allow automatic or >> manuel refreshment. [...] > It refreshes if you deactivate and activate TextMate. A gesture I think > I read somewhere that users have come to expect from many programs. Alright, I missed that feature :-) But anyway, I still think, that a preference for automatic refreshs would be a nice-to-have feature. And since the auto-refresh capablity is already there, it shouldn't be too difficult to do. regards, christian

20 years, 10 months

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How to open Textmate from external program with specific caret position?

by Joachim Mårtensson

I have been writing a little app that lists text files. When I double click the NSTableView containing the file name I want it to open in TextMate, place the caret on a specific line and scroll down to that line, just like for example xcode does when double clicking in the error list. Is there some way to accomplish this (preferably from Cocoa)? I don`t have any problems opening the file in TextMate. Its the caret positioning that is getting to me. Joachim

20 years, 10 months

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horizontal scroll

by eoghan

Hi Can you turn on/off horizontal scrolling? At the moment, my lines wrap to the next line. I know its indicated that its the same line, but id prefer it to scroll, if possible? Thanks Eoghan

20 years, 10 months

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Column Typing

by Eric Curtis

Ok, I looked around the website, in the help files and in the menus and I can not figure out how to turn on and off column typing... Asking the dumb question, Eric

20 years, 10 months

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comparable windows editor?

by Justin French

I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him). In particular, I think he needs the project drawer, because there's a heap of files to work with in Rails, and something that has a PHP & Ruby syntax highlighter included. Sorry for being a little OT, but surely some of you must be recovering Windows types and can recommend something??? I haven't touched a PC in years :) --- Justin French, Indent.com.au justin.french(a)indent.com.au Web Application Development & Graphic Design

20 years, 10 months

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key command to switch between edit and project-file-list pane

by kumar mcmillan

Hi. I just read the latest news on the TextMate site about a "quick launch" thingie for selecting a project file [ http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2005/01/28/elevating-the-standard/ ] I haven't tested this out in the beta but I think this is a great idea. However, I have a much simpler request that is related to navigating around TextMate mouse-free. How about a key command to switch focus from the editor pane to the project-file-list pane. This is about the only thing left that I have to touch the mouse for when editing! Currently I manually click on a file in the project-file-list pane, use the arrows to find another one, then press enter to open it for editing (unless I'm in the mood for mousing). now... if there was a way to jump back to the file-list pane via key-command while editing that would be great. Of course, the quick launch will be helpful but the above request seems like an easy feature to add, no? Net News Wire Lite, which has the same drawer-content window layout, allows for movement between these panes via left/right arrows ... making RSS reading completely mouse free. Emacs users will love you for it Allan :) thx, K

20 years, 10 months

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Problem with perl snippet (bundle or Textmate?)

by Gregg Thomason

I want a perl snippet that does this: open($1, "$2") or die "Can't open file: $!\n"; while(<$3>) { $4 } I enter this into the snippet editor. What happens is: 1. The "entry point" is always $2. (in other words, type 'openTAB', get the snippet, but the insertion point is at $2) 2. hitting TAB after entering some text moves the insertion to $1, but any attempts to hit tab to move to the while ($3) fail; it just inserts a literal TAB. 3. escaping the $! with something like \$! has no effect; it always inserts '!n'. I even tried \\n and variations thereof with $! to no effect. I'm not sure if this is a side effect of the Perl syntax rules/bundle (using the stock one, I long since abandoned mine in favor of the other, superior one :) or another weirdness. As a side note, I want $1 and $3 to be the same thing; is it enough to just call 'em both $1?

20 years, 10 months

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Bookmarks

by Tim Martens

Do Bookmarks not persist between sessions? I just spent an hour setting up bookmarks in a markdown syntax template, thinking I'd be able to open the document in the future and F2 (Next Bookmark) through the doc to make changes. It seems bookmarks are not permanent. Why not? Is there plans to make them so? -t

20 years, 10 months

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Tip: Append LF's to lines in selection

by Allan Odgaard

Just a little tip, the Append to Lines in Selection can also have new-lines appended, so e.g. we can select: case NSHomeFunctionKey case NSEndFunctionKey case NSPageUpFunctionKey case NSPageDownFunctionKey Append to lines in selection and type: “:<LF>break;” to get: case NSHomeFunctionKey: break; case NSEndFunctionKey: break; case NSPageUpFunctionKey: break; case NSPageDownFunctionKey: break; Or select: if([nonBase characterIsMember:ch]) else if([upcase characterIsMember:ch]) else if([alnum characterIsMember:ch]) And type: “<LF>{<LF>” to get: if([nonBase characterIsMember:ch]) { } else if([upcase characterIsMember:ch]) { } else if([alnum characterIsMember:ch]) { }

20 years, 10 months

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Paging a Bundle expert... (modifying SQL syntax colors debug)

by Paul Nordstrom August

hi everyone the bad news is that the latest beta (or how I installed it) ended up deleting all my previous Custom snippets, macros etc. The good news I guess is that I'm re-doing them (not so many anyway) in a much better way :) Separately I wanted to adapt the default SQL to colorize some of the COLLATE and CHARSET data, partly just as a tutorial. My CocoaMySQL creates table definitions including the following (unfortunately with the "`" included), e.g.: > `user` varchar(20) collate utf8_bin default NULL, > [...] > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin I wanted to offset the collate and CHARSET content so I cut-and-paste within the SQL bundle to create the following: > <dict> > <key>foregroundColor</key> > <string>#ff3300</string> > <key>match</key> > > <string>^\s*\w+\s+(collate|utf8_bin|DEFAULT|CHARSET|utf8|COLLATE)\s*</ > string> > <key>name</key> > <string>Charset Types</string> > </dict> Alas nothing happens ;) Could anyone give me a hand? This is hardly urgent, but I am just curious what I am doing wrong... FYI I based it on the following; I'm hardly a regex expert or anything but I thought I knew what was going on... Thanks! Paul > <dict> > <key>foregroundColor[1]</key> > <string>#CCBA33</string> > <key>match</key> > > <string>^\s*\w+\s+(bigint|bigserial|bit|bit\svarying$\d+$|boolean|box > |bytea|character\s(varying)? > $\d+$|char$\d+$|var\schar$\d+$|cidr|circle|date|datetime|double\s > precision|inet|int$\d+$|integer|interval$\d+$|line|lseg|macaddr|mon > ey|numeric($\d+,\d+$)? > |oid|path|point|polygon|real|smallint|serial|text|times($\d+$)(\swith > outstimeszone)?|timestamp(s($\d+$)(\swithoutstimeszone)?)? > |varchar$\d+$)\s*</string> > <key>name</key> > <string>Data Types</string> > </dict>

20 years, 10 months

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How to specify a Scope for a snippet

by Christian Schwanke

Hi, I've defined a sinppet that automatically expands the " character to "`"' used for quotation in latex. However, I want this behaviour only to work, when editing a *.tex-file. In the bundle-editor, there is a field named Scope and I suppose that's the one I need - However, I don't know what exactly to specify there. Any hints are gladly appriciated, Regards, Christian

20 years, 10 months

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Adding System Folders to Project Without Drag And Drop

by Patrick Burleson

I'm hoping I've just overlooked something to be able to do this: Instead of having to drag a folder from the Finder on the project drawer to add a live updating folder, it would be nice to be able to add them with a folder chooser much like "Add Existing Files..." . Also, I can't seem to reorder folders inside a group. Whereas I can reorder groups. Is this a current limitation? Thanks, Patrick P.S. Love the file chooser in the latest beta. It's like being in IDEA, except for my rails development. :-)

20 years, 10 months

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Re: textmate Digest, Vol 4, Issue 59

by Michael Gregoire

AS a long time windows and mac user, prior to OS X and TextMate, my environment for coding PHP and HTML was HTML-Kit which is the most extensible and light environment there is for PC...and it features a project panel much like the project drawer.... it is also quite easy to develop additional plugins for it if there isn't already a syntax plugin for Rails. It cames with a plug-in editor which is quite easy to figure out. Oh, and it's also Free. http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ > From: Justin French <justin.french(a)indent.com.au> > Date: January 27, 2005 10:23:20 PM EST > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Subject: [TxMt] comparable windows editor? > Reply-To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > > > I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine > on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text > editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him). > > In particular, I think he needs the project drawer, because there's a > heap of files to work with in Rails, and something that has a PHP & > Ruby syntax highlighter included. > > Sorry for being a little OT, but surely some of you must be recovering > Windows types and can recommend something??? I haven't touched a PC > in years :) >

20 years, 10 months

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ruby not found error

by David Casal

Hello all, Stupid question here...I have: ruby /Users/dc/Documents/txt/scripts/todo2log.rb $TM_FILEPATH as a command, but it has suddenly stopped working, saying: /bin/bash: line 1: ruby: command not found the script: #!/usr/local/bin/ruby task_text = $stdin.read task_text.gsub!("\\[ \\] ","[X] ") from = File.basename(ARGV[0],".txt") File.open("/Users/dc/Documents/txt/LOGS/ completed.txt",'a'){|archive_file| archive_file.puts archive_file.puts task_text archive_file.puts " in #{from} #{`date \"+%H:%M %Y%m%d %a\"`}" } ruby is to be found there (/usr/local/bin), and it worked yesterday, so I can't tell at all why this is happening... but I know I'm missing something obvious hints? d

20 years, 10 months

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Re: [TxMt] Autocomplete from syntax file?

by Chris Jenkins

On 27/1/05 2:48 pm, "textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com" <textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com> wrote: > There are plans, yes... ;) Ooh secretive.. Go on, tell us...

20 years, 10 months

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"Save As" bug?

by Vaska.Txt

I'm very new to the group and TextMate so I hope that this has not already been hashed out. I'm having a problem when I "Save As" with an open document. What happens is the original document disappears from the project list. The new document takes its place. I have to reboot the app to get it to refresh properly so I see both the new document and the original document in the list. For now, I can work around this (by simply creating new documents and then cut and paste), but I think it's probably a bug... I'm using OSX 10.3.7 and TextMate 1.1b1 (v1.1b1). Thanks, v

20 years, 10 months

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Improvement: Set focus to editor after Drag&Drop operation

by Christian Schwanke

Hi, I just managed to create a custom Drag Command that works similiar to the IMG-Dragging in HTML-Mode. However, after dropping a file, TextMate inserts the correct code but the focus stays with the project Drawer. Since I insert the code as a snippet, I have to press Shift+Tab in order to focus the editor pane before I can step through the different snippet-variables. So please, set the focus to the editor pane after drop-events or at an option to configure this behaviour. I'd also like to see a popup displaying the various auto-completion options instead of the ESC-cycle solution. Thanks in advance, Christian

20 years, 10 months

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Autocomplete from syntax file?

by Chris Jenkins

I was wondering whether there were any plans to alter the way TM auto-completes? The current system is good, but Id like it to be able to auto complete from files other than the current one, say all open files or all files in the project. Another probably even more useful ability would be if the syntax files could specify a list of keywords that could also be auto-completed on any file. Any other thoughts on this anyone? ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

20 years, 10 months

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Highlighting changes made to a document

by Andrew Green

Hi, Firstly, heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Allan on the latest beta. TextMate is getting better and better, seriously quickly. There's still one key feature from SubEthaEdit I'd *love* to see in TextMate, and that's the ability to highlight changes made to a document as they're made, using a background colour -- in much the same way that TM can now highlight the current line. By way of context, much of my work involves updating and tweaking code I've already written, and a great side-effect of the way SEE implements its collaborative editing is that any changes you make to a file can be highlighted as you go using a background colour of your choice. This makes it incredibly easy to see just what I've changed in the current session, so when I introduce bugs, I can very rapidly find what I've done and put it right. Could such a feature be included in TM? Or would it conflict horribly with the new syntax highlighting system? Cheers, Andrew. -- :: article seven Andrew Green automatic internet andrew(a)article7.co.uk | www.article7.co.uk

20 years, 10 months

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Nested snippet placeholders

by Jan-Ole Esleben

Hi! I wonder if I am the only person that would love to see nested snippets. Apparently, at the moment, snippets are processed by regular expression matching, which rules out nesting of placeholders. But wouldn't it be great if one could do something like this (that's for Prolog code): findall(${1:X}, ${2:member(${1:X}, $4)}, ${1:X}s) If you deleted $2, of course, the placeholders inside it would not be activated any more. And sorry if this has already been discussed, but I couldn't find any references to this particular subject. Ole

20 years, 10 months

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Feature Request: Default Highlighting

by Torsten Becker

Hi Allan and List, Sorry if this already exists, but I didn't find a way to do this with the current beta. If I fire up TextMate (or activate it, because it runs all the time) I often just do some normal writing of text. For this I have a basic highlighting which just highlights URLs. But in this situation (after pressing command-n) there is no highlighting activated. I would be very pleased if there could be some preference to define a default highlighting which gets applied to new files or the ones without a defined highlighting so that I not always have to adjust it from hand to see blue URLs. :) -- Torsten Becker

20 years, 10 months

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default fold level

by Jamal Johnson

howdy, is there a way to setup a default fold level for a particular mode so when you open a file in that mode it will automatically fold at that level? i looked in the help and at some syntax highlighting examples but didn't see anything of the sort. also, i would like to say i LOVE cmd-T!! i'm not using the project drawer at all anymore. i have 2 requests concerning it tho. 1) can the list 'wrap' so when you get to the top or bottom using arrow keys, it will wrap to the bottom / top respectively? 2) can there be an option to show the 'path' of the file, either in a tooltip or after the file name because i have many files with the same name in some of my projects and i can't tell which is which. thanx! - jamal

20 years, 10 months

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Snippet scope

by Jan-Ole Esleben

Hi! I'm a bit confused: XML snippets automatically work in my Prolog files and vice versa. And I couldn't find any information with regard to the "scope" field in the bundle editor (which I guess might be a solution to my problem - I don't want to lose the ">"-tab activation for empty tags, but it drives me mad whenever I try to write a conditional in Prolog, which starts with a "->" and needs some tab-formatting to be readable). Can anyone help me out there? Ole

20 years, 10 months

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[Slightly OT] Anyone using zsh for commands?

by Ralph Pöllath

Hi, I've been a zsh user for quite some time, but haven't used it for scripting due to portability reasons. Now I just finished reading "From Bash to Z-Shell", and realized how much more elegant those sh scripts could be with zsh (or bash, I guess). And since TM runs on Mac OS X exclusively, which ships with zsh by default, there's no portability to consider. Soo.. anyone using zsh for command scripting who would like to share? Unfortunately, I don't do much text editing and therefore scripting myself lately, so don't expect any gems from me.. I'm just curious. Thanks, -Ralph. --- "From Bash to Z-Shell" <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593766/ qid=1106825397/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0742256-4403924?v=glance&s=books>

20 years, 10 months

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ot: useit link

by eoghan

Hi Sorry about the ot post. Ive searched my folder, but cant find the link to that useit article about writing email/web articles etc. Could someone point it out to me? Thanks Eoghan

20 years, 10 months

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Keyboard Navigation after "Append to Each Line in Selection"

by Tim Martens

I've run into an instance using this great new feature (Append to Each Line in Selection) in release 1.1b3 where I think we can improve usability. I'll do my best to explain it, but it will be easier to understand by referring to the attached image (sorry). Also. I may be missing something obvious, as I'm a "switcher" with deeply embedded Windows keyboard navigation habits. I'm currently attending rehab for this condition : ) Here goes: + I'm in a 27 line text file + Lines 1-21 have data + Lines 22-27 are blank + I've just finished Appending to Each Line in a Selection (Option/Alt + Cmd + A) which covers lines 18-21 + Line 18-21 are indented a couple of columns + My cursor no sits at the end of line 18 From here I would like to put my cursor to the beginning of line 22 WITHOUT using my mouse. Having search through the GUI and played with all possible key strokes (I think), two options arise... OPTION 1: Option/Alt + Arrow Down This takes me to the same column of line 21, from where I can do another "Arrow Down" and then a Ctrl + Arrow Left" to arrive at my destination (Column 1 of line 22). This option requires a total of 5 keystrokes. Entirely too many to be optimally usable OPTION 2: Go to Line (Cmd + L) This option require also require 5 keystrokes (4 if the target line number is a single digit, 6 if triple) One might also try Option or Control + Page Down, which takes you to the bottom of the document (line 27), but then I have to make my way back up to line 22 (many keystrokes). Assuming I have not missed anything painfully obvious. I'm wondering if we can add such functionality to the Navigation menu. Basically "Go to first column of the next blank line." Possibly map this to "Ctrl+Option+PageDown/PageUp" if that doesn't conflict. IT NOW OCCURS TO ME, HAVING REVIEWED THIS, THAT MAYBE (ALSO) HAVING THE CURSOR END UP AT THE END OF THE LAST LINE IN THE SELECTION WHEN EXECUTING AN APPEND TO EACH LINE IN SELECTION MIGHT BE BETTER?

20 years, 10 months

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TM & UBB code some questions

by Mats Persson

Great beta 3 Allan !!! In the last week I have been writing some postings on a private forum, which uses UBB code [b]bold text[/b] tags. As I prefer to work in a bigger text editor window and in larger text sizes, I create my post in TM, and then post it into the posting form. While doing this, I am missing the "Insert Closing Tag" functionality of HTML, and started wondering about how I could extend it to handle the basic UBB tags as well. Unfortunately I didn't get very far as I can't really see the starting point. :( Ideally it would be great to have a syntax .tmbundle that made [b]bold[/b] and so on. Anyone has any ideas or input to help with ?? Kind regards, Mats ---- "TextMate, coding with an incredible sense of joy and ease" - www.macromates.com -

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RE: [TxMt] Nested snippet placeholders

by Bill Evans

I think that would be a great feature addition. Not sure how much that would complicate the snippets window though. Still it would be great to have. - Bill >Yeah I know it's not the same thing, sorry. I was unclear. What I >described was an additional feature I would like to see. > >On Jan 26, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Jan-Ole Esleben wrote: >> Yeah, I know what you mean, but it's not really the same thing. It >> doesn't allow for mirroring a variable from the outer snippet, for >> example. >> >> Ole >> >> >> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:09:39 -0500, Justin Blake <justin(a)blaix.com> >> wrote: > > >>>> On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Jan-Ole Esleben wrote: >>>> >> >> >>>>>> I wonder if I am the only person that would love to see nested >>>>>> snippets. >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Nope, I wanted it to. And actually I thought it was possible for what >>>> I >>>> was trying to do. I just wanted to use an existing snippet when inside >>>> the placeholder of another snippet. So if I expand a snippet with tab, >>>> then start typing a new snippet in the placeholder, my next tab would >>>> expand that new snippet instead of moving to the next placeholder of >>>> the first. I might not be explaining this properly... >>>> >>>> Know what I mean? >>>> >>>> - Justin >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>>> For new threads USE THIS: textmate(a)lists.macromates.com >>>> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) >>>> http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate >>>> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> For new threads USE THIS: textmate(a)lists.macromates.com >> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) >> http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate >> > >

20 years, 10 months

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Embedded scripting language (was: TM & UBB code some

by no_reply＠example.com

> So I partially take back the thing about AS being the answer. AS (or > apple events) will definitely be the first thing used to expose the > editor API, which should allow the editor API to be called in most > scripting languages. osa (applescript) would be a good start. and like you say below, it would be needed to get back into textmate with a simple cgi-type callback interface. > But for callbacks I'm not sure AS makes sense with the current anti-AS > attitude of TextMate (and AS just being crappy for the things you'd > normally do in a callback/user function). it is kinda high-overhead. and fiddly. > One (easy to achieve) solution is to run a script using bash, as > currently done with commands, but give it arguments and probably re-use > the environment space for all callbacks made for/from the same buffer. simple is good. for me. but i likely wouldn't be doing things that required much state, so simple might bother others more than me. > The other extreme is to embed a scripting language interpreter into > TextMate... python. =) would love it if it was a language i liked. wouldn't like it so much if it was a language i didn't know/like. suspect others feel the same way. ...some people would be happy because you picked what they wanted. more people would be unhappy because you didn't pick what they liked. ...if you choose to embed python, ignore that comment. > Another solution (which could simply be in addition to the shell > solution) would be to have TM delegate all scripting stuff to a plugin, > and the 'embedded language' would lie entirely in this plugin. That way > it would appear as if the embedded language was Python, Ruby, etc. i fear you would end up with one good plugin (the one you use) and a stack of broken plug-ins. but i'd be delighted if the textmate community came through and proved me wrong. a plugin would be harder to write that a syntax file. > hmm... I'll need to give this some more thoughts -- though this is not > something I plan to do over the next weeks, so there's plenty of time, > and I'm just thinking out loud here! :) not registered, demo's expired right now. fell back to textwrangler (funny that the free editor is better than bb****. pay less, and they remove the bloat for you). but i follow the list more than any other list currently. can't wait for textmate to grow up. mostly i'm waiting for inter-process communication of some sort (what's being described by allan here). ...and some way to keep the windows from staggering all over the place when they open. that drove me nuts. just let me open them all on top of each other, i'll navigate with the keyboard. i really miss snippets. can't wait to come back to textmate.

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icon

by Lang Riley

No offense to Torsten, but I really miss the old icon : ) Oh well. The new one is nice, just more formal. -- Best regards, Lang Riley

20 years, 10 months

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trial period extension

by Russell E. Owen

Will there be any way to evaluate TextMate 1.1 (betas or release) if one has already tried 1.0? I decided I wasn't quite ready for 1.0 (because of the black background when syntax highlighting was turned on) but it looked really promising, so I want to check out 1.1. Regards, -- Russell

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Cmd-T

by Ben Protas

I know it's been there for a bit, but I just have to say - I LOVE the Cmd-T file filter!!!!!!!!

20 years, 10 months

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Ruby/Rails Bundles not working in latest beta?

by kevin evans

Just updated to the new version and my Ruby/Rails bundles are no longer working?! Do I need to update them somehow? regards Kevin

20 years, 10 months

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Another feature request.

by Robert M.Zigweid

I think one of the primary feature requests I'd like to see is the standard command +/command - mechanism of increasing or decreasing the font size on the display. I find this invaluable when other people are looking at my screen. For some reason most people don't seem to like Monaco 9.0 on 1600x1200. -- Robert M. Zigweid rzigweid(a)zigweid.net http://rzigweid.zigweid.net

20 years, 10 months

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split windows?

by David Casal

Hi Sorry if this has been discussed already, but is there any plan to introduce split window functionality? I am a sometimes user of JEdit, and I really miss being able to say, look at an XML doc and its XSLT within a project, in a split window environment... d

20 years, 10 months

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Bundle woes... (SQL missing in action?)

by Paul Nordstrom August

Well now I've got my old default bundles back but I can't find the SQL one anywhere! And it's not on the wiki... Where'd it go? Beuhler? Anyone? :) Paul PS Sorry to be a pest... today's an all-SQL day ;)

20 years, 10 months

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Feature Request: Multiple views of the same file

by Robert M.Zigweid

This is something I sort of miss from emacs (even though I've been using vim for a few years instead now). It would be especially nice to be able to view the same file/buffer in multiple windows or even a split view ala Xcode. I've been looking around ab it for this and I'm not presently seeing it. If it is just something that I am missing, a pointer in that general direction would be most helpful. -- Robert M. Zigweid rzigweid(a)zigweid.net http://rzigweid.zigweid.net

20 years, 10 months

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textmate for linux?

by bombart＠gmx.net

Hi there, why you not port this very cool and amazing tool to linux?!?! I think many Linux-User glad to have a so power full tool because is much easier to work with than with vi or emacs... -- Sparen beginnt mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl

20 years, 10 months

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feature request: arrow-left to go to parent item in hierarchical list views?

by M Spreij

The Thunderbird mail client and Mozilla's bookmark editor both have a neat feature when you're cursoring through hierarchical lists (threaded view in Thunderbird): when an item is selected and you hit the left-arrow (or arrow-left?) key, it jumps to the parent item. Hit it again and the parent item closes. The latter already happens in a lot of places, would be nice if the former behaviour was put in as well :-) /MS

20 years, 10 months

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no syntax editing in bundle editor?

by Brian Lalor

When I bring up the bundle editor and select a syntax, I just get "No Language Editor Available". I don't see anything in the release notes saying this doesn't work yet. Am I missing something? -- __ ____ / / / __/ Brian Lalor / _ \/__ \ blalor(a)bravo5.org /_.__/____/ http://bravo5.org/

20 years, 10 months

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Syntax highlighting?

by Drew McLellan

Just installed the new beta, and syntax highlighting seems to have been disabled. How do I get it back? drew.

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1.1b3 Syntax Highlighting

by Tim Martens

Love the new features! But, where has syntax highlighting gone? Now my files are appearing in my txt file color scheme, without the option to change syntax?

20 years, 10 months

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textmate and quicksilver

by Lang Riley

Just a tip to share. If you want to get projects started really quickly and have more fun too : ), open a folder with textmate using quicksilver. Instant project. -- Best regards, Lang Riley

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Thanks Allan!

by Lang Riley

Good job Allan. The new features are so helpful. -- Best regards, Lang Riley

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new beta wow!

by Paul Nordstrom August

new icon! But looks better in the background of the Bundle Editor than in my dock :( I like the "smart" syntax/command/snippet/etc control, though my previous PHP background color is lost! (Guess I'll have to figure out how to change it back ;) Thanks Allan! Paul (jetlagged, thus working at 1:50AM :)

20 years, 10 months

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Project Drawer

by Tim Martens

Can one add Project files <.tmproj> to the Project Drawer, so as to be able to quickly link/open other projects? -t

20 years, 10 months

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how do you close excess tabbed files?

by Edmundo Ortega

What about adding a preference for tabs that works like this: When checked, any file clicked on in the project drawer is automatically added as a tab. This is the current behavior. When unchecked, you must command-click (or something like that) to add a file to the tab bar. This would work well for me, because many times I'm working on a set of files, but i must refer to other files temporarily (eg to check an interface). I always forget to close those files and I end up with a lot of extra files in my tabs that I don't want open for more than a moment. The idea above would allow you to have a set of open tabbed files that comprise your working set. Files that are not specifically opened as a tab will only appear while you are looking at them. When they are being viewed, all the tabs will be in the off state. When you click a tab again, the temporary file will disappear. To look at it again you must choose it from the project drawer. Come to think of it, this is a bit like the behavior of Safari or Firefox. Imagine if every page you clicked on became a new tab in your browser. Ed

20 years, 10 months

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plays well with Pages!

by Eric Hsu

I was very pleased to find that the TM Service plays well with Apple's iWork Pages. I love the TM editing service and use it every day and twice on Sundays... Pages doesn't have any regexp search and replaces, etc, and it's nice to kick in TM when I need it. I also am a big fan of the column editing, but that's another story... Just a positive post while we all try to resist asking Allan when the next beta's coming out. Doh! Oops. - Eric -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

20 years, 10 months

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open files

by eoghan

Hi I have my project drawer open, but how do i make all files open in textmate? im using php - which open fine, but also xsl, which open in my old editor (jedit). Shouldnt clicking the file while in textmate, not open it in textmate? Thanks Eoghan

20 years, 10 months

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Feature Request: Remember Project Drawer State

by Jeremy Brown

Hello, I recently purchased TextMate and love the product. I start understanding more of it every day. Kudos to the development team. I'd like to make a request (or maybe this is currently possible and I just don't see it?) to be able to have the state of the project be "remembered" as I open and close projects/TextMate. Meaning, if I have 25 folders in a project, and I have 6 of those folders listing contents, I'd like that state to show up next time I open TextMate instead of having to navigate through the project again and open those folders. I searched the archives and couldn't find any similar requests or notes, so apologies if this redundant. P.S. Is there some kind of "intro to TextMate" documentation that basically runs over what snippets, macros, etc. are and how they are used/created/handled in TextMate? Just a basic doc on "here's what makes TextMate great" with some examples would be terrific. Keep up the good work. -- Thanks, Jeremy Brown

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File navigation feature requests

by Tobias Luetke

I love textmate to death and use it exclusively for all my development since its release. The only area where I wish for some improvement is the file management. Most of my work is in projects which contain hundreds of files and folders so this limits the tab bars usefulness quite a bit. It seems to be easier for me to start several textmate instances one pointing to different logical parts of the application. The first and bigger proposal is to bring intelligent file opening to textmate. This works much like quicksilver. A hotkey opens a edit window and an attached dropdown window specializes itself more and more as you type. A simple search would be "user" which would offer you all files with the word user in them. A more complex example would be typing "usrg" with would find USeR_Gateway.rb, USeRGlobals so on. I recommending installing quicksilver for a demonstration of the paradigm. Its great emerging technology and would be a great competitive advantage to have natively in TM. The same code could later be used to jumping to methods within a file. Another proposal would be introduction of intelligent tab fading. During inactivity the least recently used tabs start to fade out and close themselves after a while. This happens slower when there is lots of space in the tab bar and faster the more items there are. This would be great to cut the tab clutter and get rid of files automatically with which you are done. Currently i'm finding myself using close all windows all the time. -- Tobi http://www.hieraki.org - Open source book authoring http://blog.leetsoft.com - Technical weblog

20 years, 10 months

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Feature request: vertical alignment guides. Opening nibs.

by Joachim Mårtensson

Hello everyone. I have used TextMate for close to a month now and really like it. One thing I would love to have is vertical guides, that flow from opening if/while/for til they close( Yes I program in Python, why do you ask ;) ). Kind of how many mail programs quote messages. Ofcourse there is a chance that the guide-line will hit a comment or unindented code (Not in Python though), but it could just skip drawing on that line. The vertical lines could use different colo[u]rs for different indentation levels. Another thing that would be nice, was if I could double click a nib-file in the project drawer and it would launch Interface Builder. Right now it shows me the contents of the nib folder, meaning I have to open the nib via the Finder. A step I would rather not do. Joachim Mårtensson

20 years, 10 months

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Open Recent Project

by Joost Schuttelaar

File - Open Recent Project, would be very helpful :) -- Joost Schuttelaar

20 years, 10 months

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repeat command? Is there/can there be one?

by William D. Neumann

Apologies if this has been discussed before, I'm away from my mail archive and I couldn't search. One of the more useful features of vim (for me at least) is the ability to pass a number as a parameter to a command, most of which used that as the number of times to repeat the command (though there are more specialized commands, like n%, which positions the cursor n% of the way down from the top of the file). This is especally useful for operations like "delete the next 10 tokens" (10dw), or jump down 25 lines (25j -or- 25<down-arrow>), and I really made use of it when prototyping OCaml code with its toplevel loop, where errors in long functions are pointed out by the number of characters from the start of the input string, not its line and column numbers... So if I am told there's a problem with the code between characters 2674 and 2679, I just have to position the cursor at the top of the text I entered and enter 2674<right-arrow> and it will take me to the start of the offending code. Now, as far as I can tell, TextMate doesn't have anything like this built in (a "repeat the next event n times" command), or am I just missing it somewhere? If it's not in there, could you consider this as a feature request for such a thing? One more thing, might it be possible to alter the behavior of Go to Line... to also accept a negative number, -n, and go to line n from the bottom? Would anyone else find these things useful, or am I the only odd one in the bunch? William D. Neumann --- "There's just so many extra children, we could just feed the children to these tigers. We don't need them, we're not doing anything with them. Tigers are noble and sleek; children are loud and messy." -- Neko Case Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers. -- Tony-A (some guy on /.)

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Another file save issue

by Johan Allard

Hi, I just noticed today an unexpected save behaviour. Sometimes after I started editing a file, I realise that I should have named the file something else. No problem, I drop into my terminal and rename the file. Normally (even MS Word behaves like this), the program realises the name change and updates it's menu with the new file name. TM just saved the file again, with the old name and I got stuck with two files with the same content. That is the first time I've seen that happen. //johan

20 years, 10 months

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Beta 2?

by Chris Jenkins

I've been away on holiday, did I miss beta2? What's the actual latest beta version? CJ

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Fugu 1.1.1rc1

by Chris Messina

What's New: Version 1.1.1rc1: . Much improved handling of unknown character encodings. . Improved method of locating valid External Editors. . * Support for TextMate as an External Editor.* . Support for vi and emacs as External Editors. . Fix for date sorting. . Much cleaner backend code (a continuing effort). . Experimental spring-loaded folder support. . Improved update checking. . Filename abbreviation with ellipsis, like the Finder. . SHA1 Checksum: 91aa62516af0a49c10e7bf8f46c9c790089da7e0 http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8761 -- Do the evolution. Get Firefox! <http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=5&t=4> Quote of the moment: /If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing./-- W. Edwards Deming

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invisibles bundle update; stupefy quotes/hyphens and zap non-ASCII added

by Eric Hsu

dear everyone, I have added a couple of commands to the Invisibles.tmbundle. One turns the 'smart' quotes that look awful in HTML, etc., into plain quotes. The other deletes all 'non-ASCII' characters. Now your favorite non-English language might have some characters that Invisibles thinks are gremlins and which get colored red and deleted in the Zap. You can change the pattern yourself to better suit your needs, in the Invisibles.plist and the Zap Command. You may want to refer to an ASCII chart (just google it). You can get this last bundle from http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu/textmate/ but most of the fun stuff is happening at the TextMate SVN site. http://anon:anon@macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk Perhaps soon there will be a cron script that zips up the latest Bundles automatically... best, Eric -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

20 years, 10 months

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Oops sorry

by Chris Jenkins

Sorry about that, it appears my email client decided to receive every message I had ever received all over again, and generated an auto reply to the digest message with nothing in it. Damn Entourage.... Chris ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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Re: textmate Digest, Vol 4, Issue 31

by Chris Jenkins

On 19/1/05 12:00 pm, "textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com" <textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com> wrote: > Send textmate mailing list submissions to > textmate(a)lists.macromates.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > textmate-owner(a)lists.macromates.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of textmate digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? (Brad Miller) > 2. Re: Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? > (Allan Odgaard) > 3. Re: feature request: autosave (Ryan Schmidt) > 4. Re: feature request: autosave (Allan Odgaard) > 5. feature request: named bookmarks (Nick Hristov) > 6. Re: Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? (Brad Miller) > 7. Re: feature request: named bookmarks (Sam Andrews) > 8. Re: feature request: named bookmarks (Allan Odgaard) > 9. feature request: toggle foldings for blocks of type x > (Ralph P?llath) > 10. Re: Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? > (Allan Odgaard) > 11. Re: Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? > (Allan Odgaard) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:49:55 -0600 > From: Brad Miller <bonelake(a)mac.com> > Subject: [TxMt] Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <994BDC6A-6968-11D9-BEFA-000D93B6E43C(a)mac.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > For the last 7-8 weeks I've been trying to retrain myself to not use > ctrl-k/ctrl-y. Apparently it cannot be done. I've spent more time > undoing the crazy results of ctrl-k followed by ctrl-y than I care to > talk about. > > I've tried the macro route, and I now understand that macros have their > own clipboards, which explains why the text that I cut inside the macro > just dissappears forever. > > As suggested by someone on this list earlier (back in November), I've > created a macro to select to end of line, followed by a command that > cats the selected text into a temp file, and I've put both of those > little commands inside yet another macro bound to ctrl-k. I've bound > ctrl-y to a macro that cats the file into the current buffer. The > problem with this approach is that now ctrl-k / ctrl-y have their own > private little clipboard. so ctrl-y can't paste anything from the > system clipboard or a 'regular' cut/paste. > > Does anybody have a better solution to this problem yet? I'm so happy > with so many things about TextMate, and I have paid the license fee, > but this morning I found myself trying out other editors again :-( > > Thanks, > > Brad > > Brad Miller, PhD > Assistant Professor > Luther College > http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller > jabber: bnmnetp(a)jabber.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFB7TAot6pClM1VKiYRAr1/AJ95KPx7Pm+5DEnUC8Vi76NPx4KhWACfQSWB > IrUCwUhZ5DZQ87C5rFsfsUA= > =xeLB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:08:14 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <284FF324-696B-11D9-BE69-000D93589AF6(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > > On Jan 18, 2005, at 16:49, Brad Miller wrote: > >> [...] so ctrl-y can't paste anything from the system clipboard or a >> 'regular' cut/paste. > > You can get the contents of the clipboard with 'pbpaste' and store > stuff on it with 'pbcopy' (they use stdin/stdout). Unfortunately they > do not use UTF-8. But maybe you can make a better solution than your > current (i.e. one that use/interact with the „real‰ clipboard) until I > get around to native support for kill-buffers. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:23:12 +0100 > From: Ryan Schmidt <textmate-2004(a)ryandesign.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] feature request: autosave > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <A16CD5D8-6975-11D9-9289-000D9335D2CC(a)ryandesign.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > It seems nobody has mentioned the autosave implementation that I find > best: > > While a document is open and "dirty" the editor saves a copy of the > file periodically in a temporary location (probably in something like > ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/AppName/TemporaryFiles). Even after such > an auto-save, the document still appears to the user to be dirty, and > behaves the same way as it would without autosave. When the user asks > to save the file, it actually gets saved to its real location. Clicking > the close box asks if you want to save, as usual. Closing a document > also removes the temporary file. > > The point of this is to prevent data loss in the event of application > crash or power loss. The next time the editor opens, it checks its > temporary file directory and opens any that are still there, and they > appear exactly the way they did last time the app was open -- as dirty > windows, and if the user saves them, they go where they originally > were. > > I think Mail.app has got a pretty good implementation of this. Of > course it's adapted to emails, not files. In Mail.app it makes sense, > if you're composing an email and quit without saving or sending, that > it auto-saves this mail to the Drafts folder, and the next time you > open Mail.app it auto-opens the mail again. That doesn't make sense in > an editor. But the save-a-copy-to-save-my-ass-if-my-Mac-crashes feature > has merit. > > As some others have already said, littering the directory with .bak > files is a bad idea, for the can-be-read-from-a-webserver reason as > well as the wreaks-havoc-on-the-version-control-system reason, not to > mention making it impossible to find the file you need. Creating backup > files with dates in the name is equally bad; if that's what you want, > then you need to read about and use a version control system. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:31:04 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] feature request: autosave > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <BA915C2C-6976-11D9-BE69-000D93589AF6(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Jan 18, 2005, at 18:23, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> I think Mail.app has got a pretty good implementation of this. Of >> course it's adapted to emails, not files. [...] > > I also love Mail.app for that! I was actually considering it for > TextMate, because then it could take the job of stickies, which I do on > occasion want it to -- but there should be some way to control it of > course. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:12:01 -0600 > From: Nick Hristov <hrisnik(a)iit.edu> > Subject: [TxMt] feature request: named bookmarks > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <9850AC38-6995-11D9-9D09-0050E4D0063B(a)iit.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Apologize if this has been requested before. > > I would really like to see named bookmarks in TextMate. I think that a > small popup button on the bottom of textmate window next to the "Line: > " field will be cool. > > Userland, what's your take on this? > > Nick > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFB7Xuh53uNWFjvs2YRAidpAJ9Y2g5qH+pppJ1eEHDH537dETFfoQCfUmeU > EJnudYkXx2MOq5+i5czURCY= > =leUB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:29:27 -0600 > From: Brad Miller <bonelake(a)mac.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <2D66B7A8-69B1-11D9-AA0A-000D93B6E43C(a)mac.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > > Thanks, > > No I'm very confused.... I tried substituting > > pbcopy for cat > "/tmp/fakeKill" and > pbpaste for cat "/tmp/fakeKill" > > in my two commands, which work fine except for the lack of > compatibility with the clipboard. Sadly, when I run the pbpaste > command I just get a spinning beach ball for about 30 seconds and then > nothing gets pasted. > > I tried running pbpaste from the command line, just to see if the > pbcopy part was working, and the copy part appears to work when I > create the macro, but when I test it it does not work anymore. It does > not seem like the selectToEnd of line part is working.... > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Brad > > On Jan 18, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote: > >> On Jan 18, 2005, at 16:49, Brad Miller wrote: >> >>> [...] so ctrl-y can't paste anything from the system clipboard or a >>> 'regular' cut/paste. >> >> You can get the contents of the clipboard with 'pbpaste' and store >> stuff on it with 'pbcopy' (they use stdin/stdout). Unfortunately they >> do not use UTF-8. But maybe you can make a better solution than your >> current (i.e. one that use/interact with the „real‰ clipboard) until I >> get around to native support for kill-buffers. >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> For new threads USE THIS: textmate(a)lists.macromates.com >> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) >> http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate >> > Brad Miller, PhD > Assistant Professor > Luther College > http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller > jabber: bnmnetp(a)jabber.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:54:51 +0000 > From: Sam Andrews <sam(a)samandrews.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] feature request: named bookmarks > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <41EE205B.2050903(a)samandrews.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > >> I would really like to see named bookmarks in TextMate. I think that a >> small popup button on the bottom of textmate window next to the "Line: " >> field will be cool. >> >> Userland, what's your take on this? > > i've always wanted to see a per-project to-do list (in a drawer, i expect) > that > can be linked to named bookmarks. > > so... open project drawer, select to-do view, chose entry - tm opens the file > and jumps to the bookmark. then if you clear the bookmark in the left-hand > margin it checks off the to-do (or sub-to-do) and vice versa. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:33:44 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] feature request: named bookmarks > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <3660346E-69FD-11D9-9B58-000D93589AF6(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Jan 19, 2005, at 9:54, Sam Andrews wrote: > >> so... open project drawer, select to-do view, chose entry - tm opens >> the file and jumps to the bookmark. then if you clear the bookmark in >> the left-hand margin it checks off the to-do (or sub-to-do) and vice >> versa. > > Probably you can pull something similar off with a command that greps > through all project files (e.g. after TODO) and have the pattern set to > parse grep's output. > > This will give you a list of all bookmarks which can then be clicked to > jump to the appropriate file. Using the format string you may be able > to present it with the indent you speak of. > > Though you won't get the checkmarks ;) > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:58:33 +0100 > From: Ralph P?llath <lists(a)poellath.org> > Subject: [TxMt] feature request: toggle foldings for blocks of type x > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <ADF2F1FB-6A00-11D9-8702-000D9334815A(a)poellath.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Hi, > > One thing that I'd love to see in TM is the ability to fold all blocks > of a certain type, e.g. multiline comments. > > Cheers, > -Ralph. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:10:44 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <61A52A64-6A02-11D9-9B58-000D93589AF6(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Jan 19, 2005, at 1:29, Brad Miller wrote: > >> Sadly, when I run the pbpaste command I just get a spinning beach ball >> for about 30 seconds and then nothing gets pasted. > > hmm... yes... problem is that when TextMate claims ownership of the > clipboard, all others need to ask TM for the contents, but TM is busy > asking pbpaste for the command result. > > But if you make ctrl-k write to the normal clipboard, ctrl-y should > just be re-bound to cmd-v!?! > >> I tried running pbpaste from the command line, just to see if the >> pbcopy part was working, and the copy part appears to work when I >> create the macro, but when I test it it does not work anymore. It >> does not seem like the selectToEnd of line part is working.... > > Come to think of it, the problem is probably the same as to when not > using pbcopy (local clipboard in macros). > > I did a little bit of experimenting, and I can make it work if I let > the macro execute this command (input: selection, output: discard): > > tmp=`mktemp -t tm_clip`; cat >$tmp; { sleep .2; pbcopy <$tmp; rm $tmp; > } >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null & > > What it does is first store selection in a file, then asynchronously > sleep for .2 seconds and _then_ copy the file contents to the clipboard > (so that should be after TM thinks the macro is done, and thus after TM > resets the clipboard). > > I admit, it's not very elegant... > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:16:21 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <2A9B2D4D-6A03-11D9-9B58-000D93589AF6(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Jan 19, 2005, at 11:10, Allan Odgaard wrote: > >> I admit, it's not very elegant... > > I may add an option to disable local clipboard on a per macro basis in > b3 or b4, since I think this feature is probably too often the culprit > of end-user customization. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > textmate mailing list > textmate(a)lists.macromates.com > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate > > > End of textmate Digest, Vol 4, Issue 31 > *************************************** -- Head of Interaction Design Tribal DDB e: chrisj(a)tribalddb.co.uk t: +44(0) 207 258 4522

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A few things that annoy me

by Ivar Åsell

1. I want "File-->Save" to be disabled when a file just has been opened or saved. The fact that it is not grayed out makes me think TM didn't save the file although I pressed CMD-S 2. I don't want to save a file just to try out a different encoding. Many times per day I open files where my special swedish letters åäö is messed up because applications like SSE doesn't save the file properly for TM to understand which encoding it uses so it gets wrong all the time. I'd really really like to see "reinterpret this file with encoding: " and "convert this file to encoding: " not only reinterpret as TM uses (which also reloads the file, so one has to make sure to save first) 3. A Document saved by SSE as ISO-Latin1 and open by TM is recognized as that encoding. But saving the file with TM now magically changes the file to UTF-8. Don't get me wrong, I love TM... bought my license and haven't regret it at all! Just need a few changes to truly love working with it :) Kind Regards Ivar

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Invisible Characters?

by Eric Curtis

Well I just got back from an extended vacation and I am starting to put textmate back to use but for the life of me I can not find any command to show invisible characters. I thought it had this feature...? What am I missing? Thanks, Eric

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Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)?

by Brad Miller

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For the last 7-8 weeks I've been trying to retrain myself to not use ctrl-k/ctrl-y. Apparently it cannot be done. I've spent more time undoing the crazy results of ctrl-k followed by ctrl-y than I care to talk about. I've tried the macro route, and I now understand that macros have their own clipboards, which explains why the text that I cut inside the macro just dissappears forever. As suggested by someone on this list earlier (back in November), I've created a macro to select to end of line, followed by a command that cats the selected text into a temp file, and I've put both of those little commands inside yet another macro bound to ctrl-k. I've bound ctrl-y to a macro that cats the file into the current buffer. The problem with this approach is that now ctrl-k / ctrl-y have their own private little clipboard. so ctrl-y can't paste anything from the system clipboard or a 'regular' cut/paste. Does anybody have a better solution to this problem yet? I'm so happy with so many things about TextMate, and I have paid the license fee, but this morning I found myself trying out other editors again :-( Thanks, Brad Brad Miller, PhD Assistant Professor Luther College http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller jabber: bnmnetp(a)jabber.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB7TAot6pClM1VKiYRAr1/AJ95KPx7Pm+5DEnUC8Vi76NPx4KhWACfQSWB IrUCwUhZ5DZQ87C5rFsfsUA= =xeLB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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feature request: toggle foldings for blocks of type x

by Ralph Pöllath

Hi, One thing that I'd love to see in TM is the ability to fold all blocks of a certain type, e.g. multiline comments. Cheers, -Ralph.

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feature request: named bookmarks

by Nick Hristov

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Apologize if this has been requested before. I would really like to see named bookmarks in TextMate. I think that a small popup button on the bottom of textmate window next to the "Line: " field will be cool. Userland, what's your take on this? Nick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB7Xuh53uNWFjvs2YRAidpAJ9Y2g5qH+pppJ1eEHDH537dETFfoQCfUmeU EJnudYkXx2MOq5+i5czURCY= =leUB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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feature request: autosave

by Paul Nordstrom August

hi guys somehow one of my old .php files was encoded as a BBEdit document so when I double-clicked BB opened up... what a shock! Like travelling back in time. Honestly I wondered if it had booted Classic up, the menu looked so old :) [Disclaimer, that's BB 7.x not 8.0, so maybe they freshened it up.] Anyway that shows how fast TM has progressed. Just about the only thing I miss (because I screwed up a bunch o' code today ;) is the autosave feature where each file is backed up before each change. Can we please have that in TM for us klutzes? p.

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one more update to command line tool

by Eric Hsu

Three changes. I fixed the -w flag to await the closing of the editing window without any RETURN prompt. I stole the code from Marcin's <otheraccount(a)verizon.net> recent script. (What is Marcin's last name?) I added a -t flag like bbedit, so you can name the piped input. I also added the ability to pass a -u flag so filenames are treated as URLs. It then uses curl to decipher/download the filenames and passes the results to TM. Unfortunately, this only works for anonymous FTP and not most FTP/SFTP setups. I'm sure someone enterprising could do it, but it doesn't seem worth it unless TM saves files back to S/FTP. On the other hand, bbedit doesn't handle http at all! :) Here is the current help file. >TextMate Command Line Tool >usage: tm [-chtuw] filename [filename ...] > >This tool opens files, directories, URLs or (with no filenames) >standard input. > > -c Create a new file. > -h Show this help. > -t Specify a title for piped input. Overrides other flags. > -u Treat filenames as URLs (e.g. tm -u www.google.com). Uses curl. > -w Waits for the edited file window to close before ending (for >external editing) Here is (from what I can tell) lacking in comparison to bbedit. - jump to line number (probably you'd want to use a command with output parsing anyway... see e.g. Perl>PerlErrors) - print (probably needs some Applescript... Marcin?) - FTP/SFTP (prob need support from TM itself) The latest script is still at <http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Scripts/tm>. best wishes, Eric -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

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Re: [TxMt] syntax tool

by Eric Hsu

>The whole syntax highlighting thing is going to be overhauled, so in my >opinion, it will be a bit a waste of time... The SH files will all have >to be re-written or updated soon, so I don't see the need to do it >twice or more, but if you've got lots of time on your hands, go for it >;) Ah, you must not have any major projects to procrastinate from... :) >My advice is "sit tight, and wait for the good things to come", but of >course, I am just one man :) Yes, the bundles will need re-writing, but it feels like a stop-gap measure is possible with some work and a small amount of coordination. It also seems like Allan has a lot of stuff on his to-do list! 1.2 could be a long ways off... So, to put my money where my mouth is, I tried out Chris Thomas's hierarchical scheme with the Perl.tmbundle just to see how hard it would be. It actually didn't take very long; the main issue was deciding where in the hierarchy things should go, like variables and functions. Things that were unlikely to have an analog in another language (like POD) I put in a hierarchy beneath *.perl. I also renamed the Latex innards. It was a little harder, as it's not really a programming language, but I took a shot at it. - Eric ps. These are the classes I used. I know I'll just have to change them again, but it _feels_ more organized. :) comments.line.perl comments.perl.POD keywords.control.perl keywords.functions.perl keywords.functions.perl.arrows keywords.functions.perl.comparison keywords.functions.perl.filetest keywords.variables.perl keywords.variables.perl.# keywords.variables.perl.special keywords.variables.perl.special# strings.backticked.perl strings.double-quoted.perl strings.double-quoted.perl.q strings.double-quoted.perl.qlinestart strings.program-block.perl strings.regexp.perl strings.single-quoted.perl comments.line.latex keywords.functions.latex keywords.functions.latex.citations keywords.functions.latex.sections keywords.latex.braces strings.latex.equation-$ strings.latex.equation-$$ strings.latex.equation-braces -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

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Feature request: "see" like SubEthaEdit

by Lars Pind

Hi Allan, I love this new features in the latest release of SubEthaEdit: It installs a shell command, see, which lets you open up files from the command line by just typing see myfile.rb (or some other file—you get the picture). Now could we get the same thing for TextMate, please? That would be really useful, since I'm always working in both TextMate and the shell at the same time, and if I need to edit a particular file, it would typically be faster to just open the file from the shell, than to grab the mouse and click-expand/scroll around the folders tree to locate and open it. I know that I can say open file.name, if that file is already associated with TextMate, but it opens in a separate window, not as part of my project. It would be nice with a command that just always opens TextMate, regardless of associations. And when you make this feature, make sure you check if the file is already included in one of my open projects, and open it there, not in a separate window. Thanks! :) /Lars Also posted at http://www.pinds.com/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=21472

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Re: [TxMt] syntax tool

by Eric Hsu

>Of course, what one could do is establish hierarchy using the names, >and then have the editor parse the name keys. Yes, I believe something like this will have to be done. From an old post: >For the record, BBEdit 8 recognizes the following colors for customization: > >General: Foreground, Background >Guide Contrast [the color of non-page window] >Custom Highlight Color: Primary, Secondary >Highlight Insertion Point Line Color >Source Code: Keywords, String Constants, Comments >HTML Tags: General, Processing Instructions, Anchor, Image, Names, Values Are these enough categories to go with? Is there some common/known taxonomy of code categories we can use? If we can settle on a scheme, bundle writers can touch up their work right away. I like the fact that TM's color schemes are so customizable; but one wonders how much complexity a typical user will want. There should probably be some kind of scheme to install the color schemes of others... And if one sets colors in a global stylesheet, how should one handle one language embedded in another? E.g. PHP/HTML or Perl/HTML? - Eric -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

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Re: [TxMt] syntax tool

by Eric Hsu

>> I am about to hack up a small Cocoa tool to edit the syntax >> highlighting of the bundles... it's a pain to do it manually. Would >> there be any interest among you to distribute it here? >> >> It will be free of course, and I will provide the source. > > If you have the time, sure go ahead, but remember that Alan is > planning this as a inbuilt feature, so perhaps you're better off > spending that time relaxing with a beer. > > Then again, if you're sharing the source, you might give Alan a few > ideas along the way :) I vote for relaxing with a beer AND programming. I'd love to see the source. I think Allan is planning something rather general and powerful. In the meantime people would probably appreciate it if (1) bundle writers standardized the 'names' of the various color classes and (2) somebody wrote a little GUI that let people pick a standard set of colors with the color picker and then propagate the changes across all bundles. - Eric -- Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics San Francisco State University erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu

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syntax tool

by Nick Hristov

Hello, list. I am about to hack up a small Cocoa tool to edit the syntax highlighting of the bundles... it's a pain to do it manually. Would there be any interest among you to distribute it here? It will be free of course, and I will provide the source. Nick

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