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by Patrick James

Hi I've just started using TextMate and I'm hugely impressed by it. My text editor requirements are not very sophisticated, I use it mostly for HTML/CSS and for processing text from time to time from databases, or transcripts of online meetings with chat clients, that kind of thing. I'm sure that I will be using TextMate for my simple AppleScript writing as well now in preference to Apple's rather basic Script Editor. I have been using BBEdit for ages and I feel it is a very fine text editor indeed, however TextMate is a bit of genius. Before I used BBEdit I used the Nisus Writer word processor for text editing in the classic Mac OS. Although a word processor Nisus Writer was a superb text editor and, like TextMate offered many truly unique abilities. Nisus also made a text editor called QUED/M which predated their word processor and had similar unique abilities of their word processor. One of the truly great things about Nisus Writer and QUED/M was the non-contiguous text selection and the way in which Nisus had exploited this. I think Nisus were the first with non-contiguous text selection but today it is quite common-place. An obvious example is Apple's TextEdit which will do non-contiguous text selection. If you are not familiar with it then you can open an TextEdit document and put it in 'rich text' mode if it is not already. Then put some text into it. Now you can select non-contiguous words in that text using command-click. Now that you have selected those words you can press command-B on your keyboard and those words will turn bold. I'm now going to describe how Nisus exploited non-contiguous text selection and why it was so very useful. If you imagine that you have some text which is intended for a web- site. Within the text are various book titles and you wish to surround these with the tag. There is nothing at all about the words of the book titles which is similar. Well with Nisus Writer you would select the book titles non-contiguously, using command-click, then you would get out the Find dialogue and put in the Find field: .+ In the Replace field: & (The & matching all of the Find field) Then you invoke 'Replace in Selection' and each piece of non- contiguously selected text is now surrounded by tags. In Nisus Writer you would turn that operation into a macro and now you can apply the tags to any non-contiguously selected text with great ease. Now it gets cleverer :) In the example above the replaced text, the book titles surrounded by is still selected after the Find/Replace has been performed. This means that further GREP Find/Replace can by performed using 'Replace in Selection. With a programme like BBEdit a search for multiple items in a file will produce a browser identifying the search results. However with Nisus Writer a search for multiple items in a file will leave them selected non-contiguously in the file. This enables you to perform a further search on those non-contiguous selections with 'Replace in Selection' again. To give an example. I think it is nice to have smart quotes in the displayed text in a web- site. To do this I have to use HTML entities. The actual text I have contains 'stupid' quotes, however I can create a Find/Replace that will look for the 'stupid' quotes and replace them with 'smart quote' HTML entities depending on whether they come before or after words. The problem is that there are many 'stupid' quotes in the HTML tags for things like class="main". What I need to do is to find the text between the HTML tags and then replace the 'stupid' quotes in that with the smart quote HTML entities. To do this in BBEdit I created an AppleScript which has a loop. It finds the first instance of 'text between HTML tags' and then replaces 'stupid' quotes with smart quote HTML tags. Then it finds the next instance of 'text between HTML tags' and so on... To do that required me to create quite a clunking AppleScript. However in Nisus Writer I could do it with two simple Find/Replace operations. Because Nisus Writer had non-contiguous selection of course. I could find all the instances of 'text between HTML tags' and know that this was selected. Then I could use 'Replace in Selection' to replace all the 'stupid' quotes with smart quote HTML entities. For Nisus Writer this was an absolutely trivial matter. So, the moral of my story is that in a text editor with GREP Find/ Replace having non-contiguous text selection brings a massive amount of additional text editing power. Patrick

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Keep project drawer expansions across sessions

by Jason Tokoph

Is it possible to add the feature or even a plugin that makes TextMate remember which directories I have expanded in the project drawer? I'd like to be able to quit TextMate and be able to keep my project window exactly as I had it the next time I launch the project. Thanks, Jason

18 years, 3 months

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Feature Request inline menu for bundle commands with the same shortcut

by Hans-Jörg Bibiko

Hi, example: if I press CTRL+SHIFT+A I see all subversion commands: Add to Repository Remove From Repository Revert Update to Newest ---------- Commit ---------- Blame Info Log View Revision... Status ---------- Diff Revisions ... Would it be possible to have the submenu titles instead of a line '--------' in TM 2.0? À la: Add to Repository Remove From Repository Revert Update to Newest ---------- Commit ---------- History and Info Blame Info Log View Revision... Status Diff Diff Revisions ... Merge  Show Available Revisions for Merging Resolve Conflicts With FileMerge… .... This already works for shortcuts of commands which are stored in different bundles. And I do not know if one could add a new level in the inline menu. Cheers, --Hans

18 years, 3 months

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Feature Request for Bundle Init

by Hans-Joerg Bibiko

Hi, for some bundles I wrote I came across that it would be nice to have a kind of a "init procedure" for bundles. I'm thinking about to have a standard subfolder called "_INIT_" in a bundle. If that subfolder exists all scripts inside of that subfolder will be executed while installing that bundle (meaning double-click at X.tmbundle, or "Reload Bundles", or TM starts). It should be added a marker that indicates that the init procedure was done to avoid to call these scripts more than once. This init scripts should be execute inside of the bundle environment (to e.g. interpret $TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT correctly). This could be helpful for instance: - to check dependencies of libs, files, versions of executables, OS version etc. and give an alert if something mismatches - to set up/build/unzip bundle specific files (useful to minimize the bundle size while downloading) - to install a specific environment used by the bundle's commands (e.g. for the Rdaemon, it will install Rdaemon while installing the bundle) - to ask the user if a file is missing to download it and to install it I do not know if that request is specific to me. And I do not know what kind of consequences will arise, esp. to check e.g. a text file was changed inside of the bundle which is the source to built an index file. Of course, it could also be a security issue. Furthermore if these init scripts always will execute if TM starts it could be used to check if an update is available for the given bundle. Are there any comments on that? Thanks, --Hans

18 years, 3 months

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"Edit in Textmate" not working for Mail.app

by hiaw

Hi, I try to use the "Edit in Textmate" function in Mail but all I get is a blank page. If I type something and save it, it would just add that piece of text to the mail, where the cursor is. Is this the default behaviour? I thought Textmate usually display the whole mail.... The "Edit in Textmate" works in other application, I'm writing this post now through Safari in Textmate. Thanks Daniel -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22Edit-in-Textmate%22-not-working-for-Mail.app-tp180… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

18 years, 3 months

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Insert todo with ruby idents =begin and =end

by Vesa-Pekka Palmu

A annoyance with the insert todo -macro and ruby is that if the cursor is indended when using it it places the =begin and =end tags at the current level. The problem is that ruby only regognizes them at the start of the line. So this works: if true puts "foo" =begin TODO: =end end But this doesn't work: if true puts "foo" =begin TODO: =end end I haven't had the time to look at the insert-todo code too much so I can't provide a patch, but the correct behaviour would be to make sure that there is no whitespace before the comment block tags. (IMO is rather silly of ruby that block comments can't have whitespace before the =begin and =end tags...)

18 years, 3 months

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Balancing Bracket in overwrite mode

by Wil Baden

When entering text in overwrite mode, the automatic right bracket after a left bracket shifts the rest of the line right.

18 years, 3 months

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select and move

by Baluta Cristian

hello,i'm wondering if is any rule to select a text and drag it with the mouse to another location. i'm asking this because it's not always working, somoetimes it deselects few times till i succeed. -- Cristi www.ralcr.com

18 years, 3 months

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Shortcut Alt+Shift+S conflict

by EDi_nabi

Hello, I'm a fresh user of TextMate, and I have a little problem. By default there is something assigned to the Alt+Shift+S keys combination. This "something" prints a message: cat: /tmp/TextMate-ScratchSnippet.txt: No such file or directory The problem is that this keys combination is also a combination for the Polish letter "Ś", so it's difficult to write regular Polish text. Is there a way to turn this shortcut off? Thank You for help. ED -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Shortcut-Alt%2BShift%2BS-conflict-tp18045393p18045393… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

18 years, 3 months

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Writing a Book with TextMate

by marios

Hi, I would like to gather some suggestions for the following. 1) Don't want to go into that Latex thing. 2) Keep chapters in simple Text Format ( or markdown or Textile ) 3) Project also contains a huge amount of reference files in txt and pdf format 4) What's the best way to handle: a) Index b) footnotes c) References d) Appendixes etc. Is it a good thing to keep the Book in one single file, or is it better to use multiple files ? Suggestions, links and resources welcome regards, marios

18 years, 3 months

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How to insert an UTF-8 encoded text by using an HTML output window via TextMate.system and AppleScript

by Hans-Joerg Bibiko

Hi, I just tried to summarize my experiences with the problem: How to insert an UTF-8 encoded text by using an HTML output window (via TextMate.system() and AppleScript)? [and without beeping ;)] AND How to be compatible with Tiger and Leopard? in a tiny wiki article: http://wiki.macromates.com/HowTo/InsertUTF8TextByUsingAnHTMLwindow I'd be appreciated if someone has any comments ;) (maybe for an easier solution) --Hans

18 years, 3 months

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Subversion 1.5 and zsh completion.

by Alex Ross

subversion 1.5 breaks zsh completions. to fix it, replace the file at /usr/share/zsh/«version»/function/ _subversion with this file: http://gvn.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/contrib/zsh/_subversion –Alex

18 years, 3 months

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Small Python annoyances

by Julio Biason

Hi guys! I bought TextMate a few days ago, but Python editing is giving me the creeps. First, I disabled the Auto-pair characters option, but I still get the closing parenthesis and colon when I create a function ("def"). It ignores when I type the closing parenthesis, but it doesn't ignore the colon. Second, it seems TextMate get really confused when you follow PEP8: If you use spaces instead of tabs, it doesn't do auto-indentation in the next line. In the same issue, it seems TextMate uses tabs instead of spaces (against the PEP8.) Third, still in the PEP8-issues, I'm trying to find a way to make hard-breaks when going beyond column 78. TextMate have soft-breaks, but I'd really like to have it to automagically insert the break for me (and add an indentation to the next line.) Fourth, PyCheckMate doesn't understand when you do an indentation when you do a hard-break and add the indentation (it complains about "unexpected indent".) I guess most of it is easily fixable messing with the Bundle, but I still didn't grasp the whole concept of it. Any points would be really helpful. -- Julio Biason <julio.biason(a)gmail.com> Twitter: http://twitter.com/juliobiason

18 years, 3 months

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Paste from history broken after modifier keys changed

by Nathaniel Smith

I've swapped my Caps Lock and Control keys on my keyboard under System Preferences (Keyboard & Mouse > Modifier Keys...), but now the wonderful Paste from history (CTRL+OPTION+CMD+V) no longer works. Does anybody know of a workaround? Thanks, Nate

18 years, 3 months

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SVN, Save Project, Regex search and replace

by MattMecham

Our development team has been tracking some odd behaviour with SVN commits and updates. We are primarily a three man team and we all commit code into our repo which works well. However, we've noticed that after I perform a project wide search and replace using regex and then commit, the data committed is not from the current file. The regex replacements are actually carried out on what appears to be a copy of the file from the last "Save Project" date. For example: "appCaches.php" is a file maintained by subversion. Download the files, here: http://www.mattmecham.com/images/appcachefiles.zip r#1355 was made by me on 21st May - which coincides with the last time I chose "Save Project" even though I choose "Save All" regularly. r#1479 was committed by a member of the development team adding data to the file. Although I chose rev 1479, this file was committed around 1450ish and hasn't changed until I did my global search and replace, so it's not just a one revision increment problem. r#1480 was made by me after performing a global search and replace. As you can see, it's actually performed a search and replace on r#1355, not r#1479! What does TextMate do when you choose "Save Project"? I thought it just updated the xml file containing data about open files. Does the regex search and replace work on cached copies anywhere? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SVN%2C-Save-Project%2C-Regex-search-and-replace-tp180… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

18 years, 3 months

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Turn off auto-indent? Or paste without indent?

by Skye Poier Nott

Hello, been using TextMate for a few years now, a good record for my first annoyance :) I'm writing a lot of Python code now and since it uses whitespace for blocks, every time I paste something after a function or class etc the pasted text is indented at the level of the previous block when I want it to be pasted the way it was copied. This means every time I paste, I have to select the block I just pasted and un-indent it hundreds of times every day... Is there a command to turn off auto-indent? like Cmd-something Cmd-V Cmd-something so I can toggle it off when pasting in Python. Or even better, some sort of macro like Cmd-Shift-V that would paste without auto-indent Thanks, Skye

18 years, 3 months

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Using PyCheckMate with a python virtual environment

by Benjamin Goldenberg

Greetings, I am currently using TextMate for a Pylons project with its own virtual environment. So, instead of using /usr/local/bin/python, I use a python interpreter at a specific path. Is there an environment variable I can set so that TextMate uses the correct interpreter so that my imports go through? Thanks, Ben

18 years, 3 months

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comments in LaTeX bundle, wrong with TeX grammar

by Damien Pollet

Hi list, The comment/decomment command (apple-/) has a different effect in LaTeX files (correctly prepends %) than in TeX files (incorrectly prepends #). To fix that: < ciaran> cDlm: ok, if you go into the bundle editor, change the dropdown at top left to select Preferences, and then look for the "Comments" item in the LaTeX bundle < ciaran> and change where it says "text.tex.latex" at the bottom right to be "text.tex" Also here are the conclusions of the IRC discussion with ciaran and allan: - the TeX grammar is not meant to be use per se (then it shouldn't appear in the mode menu at the bottom of buffers) - .sty files are claimed by the TeX grammar (LaTeX would be better) -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet

18 years, 3 months

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open "txmt://open?" beeps

by Hans-Joerg Bibiko

Hi, is there a reason why TM beeps if I call open "txmt://open?" ? I do leave out line and column in order to avoid that TM looses its selection. I'm just writing a character sheet to insert uncommon used charaters by using an HTML window with TextMate.system JavaScript-bridge. Every time if I insert a character TM beeps. Well, it is not a big issue but ... Thanks, --Hans

18 years, 3 months

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Textmate/Latex: Citation Inclusion does not work

by n00by

Hello together, I'm facing quite a strange problem with the citation inclusion in Latex (->Latex ->Insert ->Citation Based on current word). I always get the following error: /tmp/temp_textmate.zgtzns:4: command not found: kpsewhich -show-path=bib After the error-message, the right citation key is inserted. But i always have to delete the text before (the error message), and this is very uncomfortable. I am working on a project, and the problem only occurs in the "child"-documents, in my Master-File everything the citation inclusion works very fine. I set the the shell variable for the master-file as well as for the Bib-file. I'm quite confused what the problem could be and i hope somebody of you could help me, Thanks a lot! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Textmate-Latex%3A-Citation-Inclusion-does-not-work-tp… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

18 years, 3 months

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Growl Notifications on SWF compile?

by Alistair Colling

Hi there, I remember seeing Growl notifications for when SWFs had compiled from Textmate. I'm compiling using Simon Gregory's AS3 bundle fcsh compiler. Does anybody know if this is possible to do? Thanks, Ali -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alistair Colling Interactive Developer FPP Brand Communications (Newcastle upon Tyne) The Courtyard Dinsdale Place Sandyford Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BD Telephone: +44 (0)191 261 6662 Fax: +44 (0)191 233 2511 This transmission is confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender at the e-mail address above. FPP Design Limited. Reg. Office: The Courtyard, Dinsdale Place, Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BD. Registered Number 3775564. Registered in England and Wales. Visit our website at http://www.fpp.net/

18 years, 3 months

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PHP Debugging - ZDebug Client Coming Tomorrow

by Clark Endrizzi

Hi all, About a month or so ago I asked what people did about php debugging and stuff, something I really wanted that ZDE offered (the client itself I don't like). Several people responded and it sounded like there were a lot of error_log'ing and stuff, but nothing on par with a real debugger. With this in mind, I figured it was worth mentioning this project: http://www.bluestatic.org/software/macgdbp/ It's a Cocoa based client for xdebug that code stepping and more. More info can be found here: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/16/macgdbp-kills-php-bugs-dead/ Hope this is helpful (and appropriate). Clark Endrizzi

18 years, 3 months

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How to add Actionscript breakpoints?

by Alistair Colling

Hi there, I'm trying to figure out how to add breakpoints to my AS3 code. I'm compiling using Simon Gregory's Flex/AS3 bundle using the FCSH compiler. Also I'd like to know what's a good debugger to use that I can pause and execute my code with. I'm on a Mac so I can't use FlashDevelop and I'd rather not buy a license for the Flex IDE. Thanks guys, Alistair -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alistair Colling Interactive Developer FPP Brand Communications (Newcastle upon Tyne) The Courtyard Dinsdale Place Sandyford Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BD Telephone: +44 (0)191 261 6662 Fax: +44 (0)191 233 2511 This transmission is confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender at the e-mail address above. FPP Design Limited. Reg. Office: The Courtyard, Dinsdale Place, Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BD. Registered Number 3775564. Registered in England and Wales. Visit our website at http://www.fpp.net/

18 years, 3 months

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AS3- Textmate open my SWF when compile is finished?

by Alistair Colling

Hiya, I posted this before as part of another query though I don't know if it got missed. I'm compiling using fcsh compile from Simon Gregory's AS3 bundle which is great but I'm not sure how to open the SWF in Flashplayer without choosing the Build command. I'm guessing this is pretty simple to do, any help much appreciated. Thanks Ali -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alistair Colling Interactive Developer FPP Brand Communications (Newcastle upon Tyne) The Courtyard Dinsdale Place Sandyford Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BD Telephone: +44 (0)191 261 6662 Fax: +44 (0)191 233 2511 This transmission is confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender at the e-mail address above. FPP Design Limited. Reg. Office: The Courtyard, Dinsdale Place, Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BD. Registered Number 3775564. Registered in England and Wales. Visit our website at http://www.fpp.net/

18 years, 3 months

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How to target my AS3 class library when compiling from Textmate?

by Alistair Colling

Hello, I would like to be able to target my class library so I can re- use AS3 classes I have written. In the Flash IDE I set this in the Preferences though I am not sure where I set this when compiling using fcsh through the AS3 bundle. I am guessing it's in the flex- config.xml file or maybe the project specific project-config.xml file? Also, do I need to manually copy over classes I have used from my library into my project folder in order to share the project with other developers or is there an automated way of exporting the source files in this way? Thanks guys, Alistair -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alistair Colling Interactive Developer FPP Brand Communications (Newcastle upon Tyne) The Courtyard Dinsdale Place Sandyford Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BD Telephone: +44 (0)191 261 6662 Fax: +44 (0)191 233 2511 This transmission is confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender at the e-mail address above. FPP Design Limited. Reg. Office: The Courtyard, Dinsdale Place, Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1BD. Registered Number 3775564. Registered in England and Wales. Visit our website at http://www.fpp.net/

18 years, 3 months

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