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by Chris

When compiling LaTeX documents, the Typeset and View pane works properly when invoked from by running the compile command from the contextual menu, or by using the hotkey combination. However, when commands are run by clicking the buttons provided at the bottom of the T&V panel at the end of a completed command (e.g. re-run latex, run bibtex), the panel does not scroll down automagically to follow the most recent output. This makes it hard to follow.

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Beta Programme

by Teifion Jordan

Hi I did a quick search of the archives and didn't find anything so if I missed it, I apologise in advance. I can't find anything anywhere about being on the Textmate 2 Beta programme (though I can quite accept that there is currently not such a programme). If there is such a programme how do I apply to be on it and if there isn't, do you think you'll create one? (and if so, see previous question :)) Thanks for your time Teifion Jordan

17 years, 4 months

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R bundle: Rmate suggestion

by Hans-Jörg Bibiko

Hi, while sitting on the entire R stuff I had an idea concerning Rmate. If Rmate plots something it will save these images (PDFs) in a temporary folder, and at the end it will open these files in Preview. Fine. My suggestion is, instead of open Preview automatically to display all images inside of the Rmate output window as pdfs right after the last output. If one clicks on an image it opens it with the default application, or one can drag it to a location to save it as pdf. As demo I did a screencast 9MB http://www.bibiko.de/TMRmate.mov Would this be useful? Best, --Hans

17 years, 4 months

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Copy/Paste from other applications

by Bernd Schiffer

Hi. I'm new to Textmate and I love it - but there's one nasty thing I couldn't get rid of, so I ask you here. If I copy and paste (CMD-C and CMD-V) inside Textmate, everythings fine. If I copy (CMD-V) from text from another application, say Firefox or even Textedit, and I copy (CMD-P) that into Textmate, that won't work. All I got was something I copied earlier in Textmate. It doesn't work the other round, copying something from Textmate to, say, Textedit. Copy/Paste between my other programs works fine, for instance between Firefox and Textedit. What have I done wrong? It seems that Textmate uses a different clipboard than the one from Mac OS (my version is 10.4). How can I make Textmate use OS's clipboad instead of its own? Thanks in advance for any help, Bernd -- berndschiffer.blogspot.com

17 years, 4 months

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Re: [TxMt] For all R users: a R daemon running 'inside' of TM (first trial)

by Kieran Healy

Hi, >> here comes a suggestion for all R users. >> I wrote a tiny R daemon bundle in order to run R 'inside' of TM. >> There is no need to start RGUI etc. >> I found a naive way to do it and it turns out, at least for me, >> it's quite useful. So my question is whether this approach is also >> useful for others. If yes, I/we can elaborte this bundle. This is a fantastically useful prospect for R users: just a vote in favor of continuing work on this. A functional equivalent within TM to ESS within Emacs would really break the last strong reason many Latex +R types have for sticking with Emacs. Kieran

17 years, 4 months

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Keybinding for ^> doesn't work in Leopard

by Ian Piper

Hi all, I'm sure this used to work for me... I used ctrl + shift + ">" as a shortcut for <% %> or <%= %> I have been trying this today and it doesn't work. I have recently upgraded to Leopard. I also use a Matias Tactile Pro 2 keyboard (but I have tried my Apple BT keyboard and my PowerBook keyboard with the same effect). I had a look at the KeyBindings page on the website and also tried Key Codes. I also checked out the Console log and couldn't see anything obvious. Can anyone guide me towards a resolution of this? Thanks, Ian.

17 years, 4 months

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try mdfind

by Piero D'Ancona

Hi all. Did you try the new mdfind? it's really fast. Test it like this: create a command "Find and Open in Finder" Input: selected text or line Output: Discard Text of the command: mdfind "kMDItemDisplayName == ${TM_CURRENT_LINE}" | xargs open If you put the cursor on a line containing a filename (no path, just the filename complete of its extension) and issue the command, spotlight will search for the file and open it. On my MacBookPro it takes 1/3 sec which means ten times faster than using the GUI. Just a test, of course one can do much better things. For a list of a file metadata (like kMDItemDisplayName above) use the command mdls filename Ciao (and a happy new year) Piero

17 years, 4 months

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Rails bundle with Rails 1.2

by Jeremy Wilkins

Hi, I've currently working on a project that targets Rails 1.2, not 2.0. I've just run 'convert to partial' and got a 2.0 style xxxx.html.erb, is there an env var or similar I can set to make it use .rhtml instead? Are there likely to be any other 2.0 only gotchas in the new release? Thanks jebw

17 years, 4 months

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Converting dense XML to easy-to-read form?

by Eric O'Brien

I am not *writing* XML files, but I often want to understand one -- either just for education or because I need to modify it. Often the file in question was automatically generated and "ease of reading by humans" was not part of the process. Right now, I trying to pull apart a XML file where a single element contains about 90 attributes. Thankfully, they *do* seem to be ordered alphabetically, but they are all run together in a single line. That is, there are no linefeeds between attributes. Which would be just what I'd like (for readability anyway -- I'm hoping that "white space is white space and it won't matter whether those white-spaces are space characters or line feeds). For this file, using Find and Replace seems to work. (Find <doublequote><space> replace with <doublequote><newline>). I don't know enough about XML to know if it always going to be as easy as that. The XML bundle item "Tidy" actually runs xmllint, but I don't see a way to make that do what I want. Searching Google on "XML pretty print" I came up with a number of hits, but many bits of code were from the year 2000 or so. Does anyone know of any... contemporary solutions? Or have other suggestions/ideas? Thanks! eo

17 years, 4 months

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Update to r1455 breaking Rails tests

by Peer Allan

Hi, Since I updated to r1455 this morning I have been unable to run tests in my rails app. RakeMate returns the following error: Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems and try again: http://rubygems.rubyforge.org I have RubyGems 1.0.1 installed and had no problems prior to the update. I am running on Leopard, upgraded from Tiger, and I am still using my previous MacPorts Ruby config. The application is Rails 2.0.2. Is anyone else having this problem? Peer

17 years, 4 months

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Re: [TxMt] A fix for Move Selection Line Up/Down and suggestions for TextMate

by Sergei Yakovlev

On Dec 31, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: On 30.12.2007, at 20:13, Sergei Yakovlev wrote: It would certainly be easier for the average user (and somewhat more flexible) if TextMate had something like $TM_SELECTED_TEXT_START_LINE_NUMBER and $TM_SELECTED_TEXT_START_COLUMN_NUMBER variables, or, alternatively, slightly changed semantics of $TM_LINE_NUMBER and $TM_COLUMN_NUMBER variables so that they always return the starting position of selection (no matter how the selection was made). Do you know these variables? $TM_INPUT_START_LINE $TM_INPUT_START_LINE_INDEX Oh, I did not know these existed. Thank you, Hans! These variables are missing from the official Manual. I decided to check for other variables, and found that TM_COLUMNS and TM_COLUMN_NUMBER are missing as well. Should I submit a documentation patch? Ho-ho-ho, Sergei Yakovlev

17 years, 4 months

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New paste to adium 1.2 patch

by Peter Haza

I've created a rather nasty hack to allow one to paste to any online contact ASWELL as any open chat in adiumx. (current version is only any open chat). The full source of get_destinations.scpt (found in TextMate.tmbundle/Support/) is attached along with a screen shot. Compile it with Script Editor.

17 years, 4 months

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Re: [TxMt] A fix for Move Selection Line Up/Down and suggestions for TextMate

by Sergei Yakovlev

On Dec 26, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote: On 26 Dec 2007, at 14:28, Сергей Яковлев wrote: [...] Suggestion 1. It would be useful if TextMate had variables like $TM_SELECTION_START and $TM_SELECTION_END which would return the corresponding offsets in the file (or the cursor offset, if nothing is selected). It does in the form of a line/column position of the start position. Maybe I am simply misunderstanding you, but are you saying that TextMate returns line and column position of the start position of selection? I'm asking because the $TM_LINE_NUMBER and $TM_COLUMN_NUMBER variables don't quite work this way. To illustrate what I mean, let's add a 'Show Position' command that displays position as a tooltip: echo "$TM_LINE_NUMBER:$TM_COLUMN_NUMBER" and type 'TextMate' into an empty document. Now, if we select 'TextMate' with mouse from left to right, the command returns 1:9. If we select 'TextMate' with mouse from right to left, the command returns 1:1. Finally, if we select 'TextMate' by double-clicking between 't' and 'M', the command returns 1:5. So, these variables actually return the cursor position, not the starting position of selection and it is impossible to calculate the starting and ending positions of selection from $TM_LINE_NUMBER and $TM_COLUMN_NUMBER variables (without knowing how the selection was made). The only way to do this (that is known to me) is to write a macro that first calls a command that replaces selection with itself wrapped in U+FFFC characters: echo -n $'\357\277\274'$TM_SELECTED_TEXT$'\357\277\274' and then calls another command that receives the whole document as an input and can "find" the selection looking for U+FFFC characters. It would certainly be easier for the average user (and somewhat more flexible) if TextMate had something like $TM_SELECTED_TEXT_START_LINE_NUMBER and $TM_SELECTED_TEXT_START_COLUMN_NUMBER variables, or, alternatively, slightly changed semantics of $TM_LINE_NUMBER and $TM_COLUMN_NUMBER variables so that they always return the starting position of selection (no matter how the selection was made). The reason it does not use a byte offset is that internally TM would have to "calculate" this (by adding the length of each line preceding the selection) and I am generally wary of exporting shell variables that need to be calculated and have an unknown running time (i.e. in practice the user could have a million lines and each command execution would then always require a million numbers to be added together). I assumed that these calculations were already being performed, after I had a look at: $ class-dump -C OakTextView TextMate | grep selectedRange - (struct _NSRange)selectedRange; - (void)setMarkedText:(id)fp8 selectedRange:(struct _NSRange)fp12; and saw 'selectedRange'. But, evidently, something much more complicated is going on, and I certainly would not ask you questions about TextMate internal workings :-) The only remaining question is what symbol to use as a mark. I decided to use √ (221A, SQUARE ROOT character, which you can type with Option-V), but I'm not sure this is the best choice. Maybe it's better to use some character from Private Use Area (E000--F8FF)? We generally use U+FFFC, OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. I've attached a new version of macros using U+FFFC to the original ticket. Happy New Year! -- Sergei Yakovlev

17 years, 4 months

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Problem with TextMate's Builder.rb and ActiveSupport on Leopard

by Markus Prinz

Hello list, when running the following simple Ruby-Program: require 'rubygems' require 'active_support' using Command+R, I get the following output: /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/builder-2.1.2/lib/blankslate.rb:84:in `blank_slate_method_added': stack level too deep (SystemStackError) from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/builder-2.1.2/lib/blankslate.rb: 84:in `blank_slate_method_added' from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ builder.rb:86:in `method_added' from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ builder.rb:111 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/ active_support/core_ext/array/conversions.rb:1 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' ... 8 levels... from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/ active_support.rb:30 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require' from /Users/cypher/Projects/test.rb:2 /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/builder-2.1.2/lib/blankslate.rb:84:in `blank_slate_method_added': stack level too deep (SystemStackError) from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/builder-2.1.2/lib/blankslate.rb: 84:in `blank_slate_method_added' from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ builder.rb:86:in `method_added' from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ builder.rb:111 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/ active_support/core_ext/array/conversions.rb:1 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' ... 8 levels... from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/ active_support.rb:30 from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `gem_original_require' from /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require' from /Users/cypher/Projects/test.rb:2 (OS X.5, default Ruby 1.8.6p111, TextMate Build 1436) The problem is that both the builder-gem and TextMate's builder.rb try to alias method_added to blank_slate_method_added. I've patched TM's builder.rb to alias to tm_blank_slate_method_added instead, which works. However, this is only a hack to fix this problem, I'm sure there is a better way to address this (e.g. builder.rb checking wether a module 'Builder' already exists, and if not, load tm_builder.rb or something like that). regards, Markus

17 years, 4 months

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Spaces instead of Tabs

by Ulai Beekam

When typing the space key in my code in TextMate, how can I let TextMate use a particular number of spaces instead of that tab character? I would like to always use 2 spaces instead of the tab character. Also, how can I auto-format code that already have tabs (or tabs replaced by, say, 4 spaces) to format it the way I want it (say, tabs replaced by 2 spaces)? Microsoft Visual Studio allowed me to do that. Does TextMate provide such facilities? (Guess I could always turn to regular expressions to fix such stuff.) _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

17 years, 4 months

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New JavaScript

by Alexey Blinov

Today i get new revision of TextMate. This is good! and i saw this: [2007-12-29: REVISION 1455] [NEW] JavaScript bundle: Add a Javascript beautifier script, with a shortcut of Ctrl+Q. (Michael Sheets) Cool! But... sorry pals - I can't find it! I didnt use svn version of Javascript bundle (but ofcourse i svn up Support and all *.tmbundles after i receive new TM revision). I restart TM - and still nothing. Ctrl+Q works but it do something i would call "minify me code". Do i miss something?

17 years, 4 months

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Open TM with Project Drawer by default

by n_powell

Hello, I am new to TM, and I have a couple of questions regarding the Project Drawer. I did search google and the mailing list archives but I didn't see an answer to my question. When I am launching TM I would like it to open up with the Project Drawer already present. Also if it could open a directory (like ~/.projects) and all the sub directories that would be great as well. I am guessing there is a way to do this with TM since I can issue `mate ~/.projects` On the command line and that works. I have Quicksilver installed, so I bet I could create a trigger that would do what I want, but I would prefer to just have it work this way by default. TIA -- nathan nathan_at_nathanpowell_dot_org Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ~ Edgar Bergen ------------------------------------

17 years, 4 months

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GTDAlt users out there?

by infoarts＠gmail.com

Any other GTDAlt users out there? After doing a clean install of Leopard, I'm having trouble getting the GTDAlt bundle working again in TextMate. Am getting Ruby errors when I add dates to actions, and iCal syncing is using the incorrect date in iCal (one day earlier than set in my gdt files). It's a wonderful bundle, and I would love to keep it running smoothly. Any clues appreciated. Richard

17 years, 4 months

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[REVIEW] JavaScript

by Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient

I just added three bundles to Review. JavaScript, MooTools & Prototype The major change is that I moved all the bracketed and whitespace scopes out of "prototype bracketed" into "javascript base". There are now two core Javascript languages. "Javascript" and "Javascript Basic" When opening a Javascript file, you'll want to use "Javascript". When you use a language like HTML, it'll automatically include "javascript basic" as embedded source where necessary. "Javascript basic" is mostly just a modified version of the current Javascript language. It should be pared down a bit more still. The MooTools bundle contains a completely new language syntax. It also includes the classic mootools language by Joe Maller as "MooTools 1.1" It's pretty basic at the moment, but I have plans for upgrading it and adding context sensitive codecompletion. The Review Prototype bundle is NOT upgraded for the latest version of prototype. All it is is a compatibility upgrade to support the new javascript core languages. Those few of you who care, please let me know what I need to do before I can replace the core bundles with these guys. —Thomas Aylott – subtleGradient—

17 years, 4 months

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A bug(?) Bundle updates RSS feeds

by Takaaki Kato

Hi, I saw my NetNewsWire doesn't output from bundle updates RSS feeds. See the image. Something needs to be escaped here. Is this a bug in a script to make feeds? Or something is wrong in NetNewsWire? I don't have any plan to make _malicious_file name and commit the file to the repo :) Takaaki -- Takaaki Kato http://samuraicoder.net

17 years, 4 months

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Saving file to hidden directory

by Phil Molyneux

While the File -> Open... dialogue has a button to show hidden files, the File -> Save seems to have no obvious way to save a file to a hidden directory. I was creating an environment.plist file to save in ~/.MacOSX --- my immediate work around was to save the file to the Desktop and use Finder to move the file to .MacOSX --- I have set Finder to show all files using either the defaults command or TinkerTool. A search of the mailing list indicates that Cmd-Shift-G opens a sub dialogue box to the File -> Save dialogue that allows you to type the name of the directory directly but that would seem hard to discover. Is there a preference in Textmate that modifies the File -> Save dialogue to show hidden files ? Phil Molyneux

17 years, 4 months

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Taskmate bundle ready for review

by Sven Fuchs

Dear TextMate gods, dear everybody else :) I've been notified that my my Taskmate bundle has been added to the review directory: http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Review/Bundles/Taskmate.tmbundle Since the first announcement to this list quite some work has been done on this bundle. We've been able to track down some bugs, added some new features and tweaked everything according to the great feedback of both Michael Sheet and early adopting users. I've put together a list of the changes in the changelog: http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Review/Bundles/Taskmate.tmbundle/CH… Even at this early stage I'd like to say thank you to Michael for doing an amazing job as a review gatekeeper and Nigel Green, who attentively tested every single move I made, provided lots of feedback and additional code as well as even a complete help file. Now we are eagerly awaiting to get bashed down by you folks for any glitches and mistakes in order to make this bundle even better :) Thanks! PS: For information about what Taskmate does please refer to the bundled help file or the project page at http://www.artweb-design.de/projects/taskmate -- sven fuchs svenfuchs(a)artweb-design.de artweb design http://www.artweb-design.de grünberger 65 + 49 (0) 30 - 47 98 69 96 (phone) d-10245 berlin + 49 (0) 171 - 35 20 38 4 (mobile)

17 years, 4 months

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Ruby 1.9

by Jeff LaMarche

Greetings all. Been using TextMate for quite some time, but never had a problem before now. Allan Odgaard suggested I post this to the list. I installed Ruby 1.9 this morning by doing a source install from the release tarball. I had to manually update the readline library and I also had to change my path so that /usr/local/lib is read before /usr/ lib because of the libreadline.dylib that is contained there. I can run Ruby 1.9 programs from the command line just fine, but if I try to use command-R to run them from inside TextMate, I get: ------------------ BEGIN ERROR MESSAGE ----------------- /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ scriptmate.rb:4:in `require': /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:40: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' (SyntaxError) when 1: lines.each { |line| block.call(line) } ^ /Applications/TextMate.app/ Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:41: syntax error, unexpected keyword_when, expecting keyword_end when 2: lines.each { |line| block.call(line, name) } ^ /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:47: syntax error, unexpected keyword_elsif, expecting keyword_end elsif sync? ^ /Applications/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:49: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' when 1: block.call(data) ^ /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:50: syntax error, unexpected keyword_when, expecting keyword_end when 2: block.call(data, name) ^ / Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb: 60: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting keyword_then or ',' or ';' or '\n' when 1: leftovers.each_pair { |name,... ^ /Applications/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:61: syntax error, unexpected keyword_when, expecting keyword_end when 2: leftovers.each_pair { |na... ^ /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/io.rb:67: syntax error, unexpected keyword_end, expecting $end from /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/ SharedSupport/Support/lib/scriptmate.rb:4:in `' from /Applications/ TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Ruby.tmbundle/Support/ RubyMate/run_script.rb:1:in `require' from /Applications/TextMate.app/ Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Ruby.tmbundle/Support/RubyMate/ run_script.rb:1:in `' ------------------ END ERROR MESSAGE ----------------- I also get errors running a shell script, but not quite the same, and it does then proceed to run the script after dumping the error message, unlike with the Ruby script: ------------------ BEGIN ERROR MESSAGE ----------------- (erb):29:in `concat': character encodings differ (ArgumentError) from (erb):29:in `html_head' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.0/erb.rb:743:in `eval' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.0/erb.rb:743:in `result' from / Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/lib/ web_preview.rb:116:in `html_head' from -:4:in `' Hello World Program exited with status 0. ------------------ END ERROR MESSAGE ----------------- As I said, I'm still able to run Ruby code from the command line, but it's obviously less convenient, so I was hoping somebody might have an idea what's going on. I'm still running Tiger and am on the latest version of TextMate (Version 1.5.7 (1436)). Any thoughts, information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jeff LaMarche

17 years, 4 months

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PHP docblock folding

by REBELinBLUE

Maybe I'm doing something wrong but I don't seem to be able to fold PHP docblocks when they are like /** * */ even though the top fold arrow is shown (but the bottom isn't) only when they are /** * */ however the code completion features such as doc<tab> and /**<tab> generate the first block Does anyone know how to fix it so that the first type of docblock folds correctly? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PHP-docblock-folding-tp14475232p14475232.html Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

17 years, 4 months

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A fix for Move Selection Line Up/Down and suggestions for TextMate

by Сергей Яковлев

[REPOSTING BECAUSE OF BAD FORMATTING] Hi! A well-known problem with Move Selection Line Up/Down commands (Control-Command-Up/Down) is that if you use them without selection (which means "move current line"), the cursor ends up in the wrong place. This has been bugging me and my friends for quite some time, so I wrote a fix. It's two macros overriding default key equivalents, which you can find attached to the bug description at http://macromates.com/ticket/show?ticket_id=58C52785 . Please tell if this works for you. Also, is it possible to put this fix into some standard TextMate bundle like Text.tmbundle, so that all TextMate users enjoy it? (Until it is fixed in the new engine of TextMate 2.) What is the best way to do it? This is my first experience in TextMate programming, and several times I've been stuck in various dead-ends. What follows is a somewhat long description of how I approached the problem along with some suggestions on making TextMate easier to program. Most people would like to skip this. So, my first (rather silly) attempt was a huge Ruby program which replicated functionality of Move Selection Line Up/Down and depended on my assumption that the cursor is always at the end of selection (potentially allowing me to calculate all the necessary offsets in the file). Well, it turned out that my assumption was simply not true, as the cursor can be anywhere inside the selection, depending on how you've selected the text. Suggestion 1. It would be useful if TextMate had variables like $TM_SELECTION_START and $TM_SELECTION_END which would return the corresponding offsets in the file (or the cursor offset, if nothing is selected). On a second attempt, I decided that I should instead go with the built-in commands, simply correcting the cursor position for the special case when nothing is selected. So we remember current cursor position, call Move Selection Line Up/Down, and move the cursor back to remembered position if nothing is selected. There are two problems here. First, you can only call built-in commands from macros, and it is not possible to remember values through the steps of a macro. Second, there is no direct way to reposition the cursor. One indirect way to achieve this is to insert a snippet with a $0 variable. However, to move the cursor to arbitrary position in this fashion, we need an output option like "Replace Document as Snippet", which is not available. Because of these two problems, I decided to use TMTOOLS plugin, which has "call macro" (for calling arbitrary macros and built-in commands from commands) and "set caretTo" (for setting the cursor position). I got a working solution, but it had a delay of 0.5 to 1 s, which was too slow to be useful. Suggestion 2. Add a way to set "global" environment variables programmatically (from commands). These "global" variables should be available to all subsequently called commands (and other bundle items) until explicitly unset. Suggestion 3. Replace output options "Insert as Text" and "Insert as Snippet" with just one option, "Insert", and add a checkbox "as Snippet" to the right. This would add such useful options as "Replace Selected Text as Snippet", "Replace Document as Snippet" and "Create New Document as Snippet" without making the list of options too long. So, on a third (and final) attempt, I dropped TMTOOLS and returned to the idea of a macro. Inspired by Duane Johnson's solution for multiple insertion points, I decided to use a special symbol (mark) to "remember" the initial position of the cursor. So we insert the mark at the cursor (if nothing is selected), call Move Selection Line Up/Down, and replace the mark with empty string (if nothing is selected), which moves the cursor there as a side-effect. The problem here is that Replace command always replaces current selection with replace buffer, even if it doesn't match the find buffer, which ruins the case when something has already been selected in the beginning. Replace All also ruins current selection, moving the cursor to the beginning of the file even if it has not found any matches. Fortunately, the Find Next/Previous command will only change current selection if the match has been found. So that's what we use. If there is a mark in the text, it will get selected, otherwise, the selection won't change. Finally, the selection is replaced with an empty string if what's selected is a mark. The wrong cursor position after Move Selection Line Up/Down is always further in text than the right position (actually, it's on the next line), so we use Find Previous command to perform the search. Because of this little detail, the solution is actually pretty fast. Suggestion 4. Replace All should not alter current selection if no matches are found. The only remaining question is what symbol to use as a mark. I decided to use √ (221A, SQUARE ROOT character, which you can type with Option-V), but I'm not sure this is the best choice. Maybe it's better to use some character from Private Use Area (E000--F8FF)? Best regards, Sergei Yakovlev

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