Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 30. Jul 2007, at 22:26, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>
>>> Where do you see the `-`? The `-` in the lower right side is a symbol
>>> list. The column is just next to the `Line: xx` on the lower left. If
>>> you open a new document, you should see "Line: 1 Column: 1"
>>> (assuming you open a new document wihtout any templates.
>> What I see is this: "Line: 1 Column: _", followed by a pale
>> vertical bar, followed by a pale colored disk with the white letter "L".
>
> And this is even when you place the caret in the upper left corner, i.e.
> at column one?
Yes, even then.
<snip>
> I’ll update the manual. This command is gone. But there is a “Create
> HTML From Document” which you can run, Show Web Preview (Window menu)
> and then print from there.
>
> If you do this a lot, you can go to the bundle editor and change the
> output for the command to Show as HTML and give it a key equivalent.
> Then printing (colored) is just two keys instead of one.
Okay, I'll try that.
BTW, I'd like to thank you and compliment you for the clarity of your
instructions (to someone else, earlier) on how to get the 'End' and
'Home' keys to work as in the non-OSX world. Since I much prefer the
keyboard to the mouse, these instructions were a treat. I notice, tho,
that there are still some apps that disregard that, such as in Firefox
and Thunderbird. I suppose their structure is too different to notice
the key mapping.
- Dushan
Paul McCann <paul.mccann(a)adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> Gack: I don't think you want to be grabbing latex just to get some
> printing functionality in place! If you're interested in producing
> beautiful technical documents on the other hand...
For beautiful technical documents, including equations, plots, etc., I
do use a full latex program - it would never occur to me to use a text
editor for that. What I do expect from a text editor is to be able to
write and print out a letter, for example, containing pure ASCII, that I
can mail off. Yes, occasionally snail-mail is still appropriate :).
> The link mentioned earlier in this thread *is* out of date: the
> "Typeset and View (PDF)" command in the latex bundle almost certainly
> isn't what was being referred to: it is --unsurprisingly-- only useful
> on a latex source file. I do have a recollection of some printing
> scripts being developed using "enscript", a formatting utility that
> comes with OS X. Here's one that lingers in my bundle, and
> occasionally proves useful. Make a new command with...
> =======================================================================
> Save: Current File
> Command(s):
> #!/bin/bash
> # close stderr
> exec 2<&-
> # set options here
> enscript_opt="-2Gr --line-numbers -o -"
> tempfile="/tmp/texmate-print.$$.pdf" # note: "$$" is the current pid
> pstopdf_opt="-i -o $tempfile"
> # create the pdf and open it
> enscript $enscript_opt | pstopdf $pstopdf_opt
> open $tempfile
> rm $tempfile
>
> Input: Entire Document
> Output: Discard
> =======================================================================
>
> You'll probably want to play with the enscript options to get the
> output to your liking, but it's very malleable.
Thanks for this command script, Paul. I've not tried making any
commands yet, but this is a chance to learn how.
- Dushan
Hello everyone,
I'm new to the group...I ABSOLUTELY LOVE TM. But I have one recurring
problem that is starting to irritate me.
9 out of 10 times when I start Textmate, I get some (unknown) font that I
don't want. Changing the font setting in preferences has NO effect.
Anti-aliasing on/off seems to work, but changing the font does nothing.
But then 1 out of 10 times when I start it, TM uses my font setting and I'm
a happy camper and afraid to ever close TM.
I've not spent a lot of time messing around trying to figure out the
problem...I'm also new to Mac and feel like a fish out of water doing
anything.
So I thought I'd ask if anyone knows what is going on...and how I can get TM
to use my font choice all the time.
Thanks,
John
Well, there are a few obvious points that (most) everyone wants, better
performance on networked files for example. There are (approximately)
five such Really Obvious(tm) requests (hey, I won't say what they
are--after all, they're Really Obvious(tm), right?), and even for those
that don't affect me personally, it's pretty obvious they need to be
taken care of.
Past that, what _I'd_ like (yes, I'm unique, and possibly completely out
of touch with the rest of the universe :-) ) is--simplicity. I'd like
Alan to concentrate a significant part of his design and programming
prowess on making TM not more powerful, but more obvious.
My canonical example of this is the whole keybindings issue. Currently,
dealing with keybindings in TM involves searching through bundles, using
the Keyboard and Mouse Preferences Panel, and using a keybinding utility
such as KBE. This is just too much info for my little head. I'd like it
all in one place, and if not in one place, at least simpler.
My belief is that TM is currently at a level where (for me)
concentrating on increasing uniformity and simplicity would in real
terms _add_ features to the application, because I suspect that there is
a lot of power I'm not using because I don't have the time to consider
the special cases or esoteric knowledge needed to use already existing
features.
So my real request for TM2 is--don't worry too much about new stuff.
Concentrate on making TM easier to use (keybindings as described above;
optional help strings for bundle items and a streamlined bundle editor;
UI improvements; etc.), and I'll still feel my money is well spent.
(This may have something to do with age. At 43, the days when I both had
the time and the desire to learn about cool "new" features, keybindings,
etc, are long gone. In the last five years, the only truly worthwhile UI
innovation I've come across are: The technique that Quicksilver and
Launchbar use for identifying commands/files, and that TM uses when
moving between files, i.e. type in a not-necessarily-contiguous
substring of a name to identify a command/file/whatever; And
tab-completion in TM. And the second could easily be subsumed in the first.)
Just my $0.02,
Ken
On Aug 2, 2007, at 6:45 PM, John Yates wrote:
> Curious...what is the font of choice for TM users?
My font of choice is Anonymous; very clear and readable on my aging
eyes.
I may just be being a berk here, but I don't seem to be able to get
the URL associations to play ball. I'm editing text in three different
wikis, each with a different format. My config looks like this:
{
URLAssociations = {
'mail.google.com/' = 'mail';
'macromates.com/blog/' = 'markdown';
'blacktree.cocoaforge.com/forums/' = 'bbcode';
'trac.' = 'trac';
'wiki.' = 'twiki';
'doe.caribou.lan' = 'markdown';
};
}
Whenever I edit the contents of a textarea in TM it's opened into a
file named title-of-page.safari. I consequently need to manually
switch the syntax highlighting. Is there something wrong with my
config?
I've restarted TM and Safari, to no effect. Do I need to prod
something else to get the input manager to take notice of changes to
the plist file? I'm using the Safari beta (3.0.2).
On a related note, can you use regular expressions in the
URLAssociations setup, or do you have to specify an exact match?
Cheers,
Graham
Howdy.
Since TextMate seems to be like 80% LaTeX users. I feel a burning need
to use latex.
Can one of you LaTeX gurus condescend to learn me what's up?
Maybe a few links to how to get started with latex and latex in
textmate specifically.
Do you have to be a nerd to be able to use it?
thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
I don't know how many people use the Smarty bundle, but I've made some
major improvements. Highlighting now includes support for all
assignment, arithmetic, and logical operators. It also properly colors
all PHP variables, functions and constants.
I also updated the snippets to take advantage of tab stops, and
selected text, and includes almost all the options for each
function/modifier.
Finally, I updated the menu structure.
Also, I patched the HTML and PHP syntax so a block like:
{php}
$var
{/php}
will get properly highlighted as PHP and not as HTML. (Don't apply
these patches unless you really use Smarty, since Smarty is by default
disabled in the HTML syntax and this will undo that)
Any, comments, suggestions, etc. are welcome.
- Brian
I've played some with the SQL bundle but i wonder how to auto-select a
db/config per project.
I've got multiple configurations in my config for the MySQL bundle
But i need to click the config-item that i want to use and if i switch
project i need to click the other configuration first before i can
select a query and run it.
I've tried MYSQL_DB in my project property but that didn't work out...
Regards J.
Hi All,
I'm working on an all new version of the Latex and View command. See my
earlier message for you you can switch to this branch of the svn repository
if you'd like to beta test. I'm hoping to commit a major new version
today. I've attached a screenshot of the configuration window.
Whats missing?
Is the wording on the options for opening the viewer clear?
Here is another big question I've been thinking about. Since all of these
new configuration settings will be stored along with the standard TextMate
prefereces in a preferences file, how much backward compatibility should
this new version try to maintain?
The current Latex and View command has grown organically over the life of
TextMate and there are lots of environment variables that have been added
over time, some that are semi-redundant even.
TM_LATEX_PROGRAM
TM_LATEX_COMPILER
TM_LATEX_VIEWER
TM_LATEX_ERRLVL
TM_LATEX_OPTIONS
All of the above can/will be replaced with the new interface, and I think we
should make a break and do away with these.
TM_LATEX_MASTER
This one is more interesting. We currently have two ways to specify a
master/root file. Using this variable, or using the TexShop %!TEX directive
embedded directly in the file. The TexShop way seems clearly superior to me
since it allows for more flexibility than a single environment variable per
directory or project. So my proposal is that the environment variable goes
away.
TEX_PSTRICKS
Since we can automatically detect when we should use latex instead of
pdflatex this is redundant and should go away.
As I mentioned above, TexShop allows authors to embed directives right in
their source file that specify a master file, there are others as well. I
propose that we use that same set of directives and allow the following
in-file settings to take precedence over the preferences set in the
preference dialog box:
TS-options -- command line options passed to the latex engine
TS-program -- the typesetting engine to use just for this file
encoding -- how the file is encoded, I don't really know what to do with
this one. Anybody?
I've looked at the TexShop documentation and I think this is it, are there
other %!TEX directives I'm missing?
Thanks,
Brad
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Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Luther College
Takaaki Kato <devlist(a)samuraicoder.net> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2007, at 5:28 AM, Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
>
>> - On opening ordinary text documents the Line counter at lower left
>> shows the line number, but the column counter just shows '-'. How
>> do I get this to work correctly?
>
> Where do you see the `-`? The `-` in the lower right side is a symbol
> list. The column is just next to the `Line: xx` on the lower left. If
> you open a new document, you should see "Line: 1 Column: 1"
> (assuming you open a new document wihtout any templates.
What I see is this: "Line: 1 Column: _", followed by a pale vertical
bar, followed by a pale colored disk with the white letter "L".
>>
>> - How do I adjust the left margin for printing?... in fact, all the
>> essential printing parameters?
>
> TextMate doesn't have many features for printing. See the link below:
>
> http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/printing#printing
Oh, thanks for the info. Amazing that an otherwise competent text
editor should lack such essentials. BTW, the information in the URL
above differs a bit from what my copy of TextMate (1.5.6) shows: the
"View Source as PDF" is in the Latex bundle rather than the Source
bundle. Where's the best place to get pdfsync and pdflatex?
- Dushan
Hi all!
Sorry for asking this - I assume this is a stupid question, but I am
new to Textmate and not very familiar with the terminal.
So thanks in advance for being patient and helping me:
I have installed Latex via fink. The LaTeX-binaries are stored in /sw/
bin/ and I have the latest Version of Textmate and the latest Version
of MacOSX Tiger.
Compiling latex-documents from Textmate worked out of the box without
any configuration.
But there are two things, that don't work:
1.) Bibdesk (also latest Version) auto-Completion doesn't work: when
pressing alt-esc within \cite{u} for example I get the following
error message:
"The tex binaries cannot be located!" (I don't understand this,
because latex-compiling works!!) The bibdesk auto-completion works
fine with Textedit for example.
2.) Same Problem when using the "Citation based on Current Word"-
command from the LaTeX-Bundle. It doesn't work and I get the same
error message: "The tex binaries cannot be located!"
According to the manual it looks like, that I must add the /sw/bin to
the path, but I am not really sure about this, since compiling tex
files works. Also as mentioned above I am not familiar with the
terminal and don't know how to do this. (Sorry)
So whats wrong?
Can anybody help me, please?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Best wishes
Markus
Hi,
I just thought about a color picker in tm_dialog.
But do we need it?
Background:
I simply added to TextMate's MainMenu.nib Menu the following:
Format
Font
Show Fonts
Show Colors
Text
Align Left
Center
Justify
Align Right
without key bindings.
If I invoke 'Show Colors' in TM a color palette will be displayed, I
can choose a color, and finally I can drag&drop the color which is
shown in the rectangle to a document in TM, and I get e.g. #FF33DC.
This should work for HTML, CSS, etc. stuff properly.
The same for Show Fonts. I can drag&drop the name for instance.
All items under Format>Text also work but with the limitation that
all commands interact only with the current size of the document's
window.
[This, of course, is ONLY a side note ;)]
OK.
If someone needs a tm_dialog nib which asks the user, among others,
to choose some colors, one could such a nib by using NSColorWell easily.
I wrote a routine for tm_dialog to parse the result dictionary for
NSColor objects. If there are some the routine will replace the
content of these dictionary's keys with an array containing the
following strings:
{example for red; 'color' is the selection value in the nib}
<key>color</key>
<array>
<string>#FF0000</string>
<string>255 0 0</string>
</array>
Each programming language I know can use at least one of the color's
representation for further calculations. It would be easy to add also
the values for the HSB and CMYK models.
So my question is:
Is there something which I didn't consider?
Regards,
Hans
Hi,
I wonder if it possible 'easily' to enhance tm_dialog in a way that
one can also use it as FileSelect dialog, like CocoaDialog it does,
in conjunction with an user-defined nib-file to append a CustomView
to the predefined NSOpenPanel.
For details have a look at:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/AppFileMgmt/
Articles/ManagingAccessoryViews.html
E.g.:
tm_dialog -f
invokes a normal cocoa-based file select dialog.
tm_dialog -f myextension.nib
invokes a normal cocoa-based file select dialog and appends
myextension.nib as an Accessory View.
tm_dialog -f -p THEPLIST
to set the current dir, which files are allowed to select, multiple
file select yes/no, dialog title, etc.
The result is a plist containing the filename and, if an Accessory
View is specified, the selections of it.
Hans
Hi!
Since yesterday, TextMate has some strange behaviour on deletes and
on scrolling thru documents using the arrow keys.
When I type a tab and hit backward delete, only one character is
deleted, as if the soft tabs would be enabled, but I don't use soft
tabs.
The other issue is somehow more difficult to describe, but propably
related:
When I scroll thru my document using the arrow keys, my cursor does
not go to the end of the line, but remains where it has been before.
This has been different before.
Just to give you an idea of hat I mean:
if($this->db->dbh->isError($q)) {
$error = new error;
$error->raiseError($q,"DB_ERROR");
}
Before, when my cursor was placed at the end of the 'if($this->db-
>dbh->isError($q)) {'-line (in column 34) and I used arrow-down, the
cursor was placed right after the semi-colon behind 'new
error' (column 24). Now, it remains in column 34.
I have no clue what I might have changed recently, but hopefully
somebody can help, as I couldn't find anything regarding this issues
in the help documents.
I'm currently running TextMate 1.5.6 (1405).
Matt
Hello,
this is my first post on the list so hello to all. I've been using textmate
as a demo for the past couple of days now and I'm very impressed by the
application a massive improvement on bbedit in many ways.
but one small thing I would like to be able to change is the default
document type that appears on startup, just to clarify my issues isn't how
to change it but how do I change it permanently so it appears as say a php
or Java file?
many thanks
Stefan
Hi all,
I am a CSS, HTML, occasional PHP/Javascript developer new to Textmate
and have been hunting around for a good HTML bundle. I may be looking
in the wrong places, but basically, I would love to find something
that gives a few of the old features from Homesite, if that is
actually possible. I would love to find some kind of bundle with the
following:
- Code colouring similar to that of Homesite and Dreamweaver.
- Auto tag completion similar to Homesite and Dreamweaver, so when
you type the ending ">" of a div tag for example, it writes out the
closing tag. This would be instead, or in addition to, the feature of
hitting CTRL + < to close the tag.
- Some kind of HTML, CSS validation, similar to the way Homesite used
to do it. Can you include validation in a bundle?
Tell me if I'm dreaming! Either way, it would be great if someone
could point me in the right direction for finding good HTML bundles.
Googling doesn't seem to get the results I want.
Cheers for any help.
Recently, I needed to unbind a TextMate menu command (Text:Reformat and
Justify) so that I could use ^J for my own uses. Ale Munoz (the n is
suppose to have a tilde above it but I don't know how to type that on a
US keyboard, sorry) was kind enough to show me how to use the Mouse and
Keyboard preferences panel to rebind that menu item to something else,
which solves the immediate problem. However, this still begs the
question; is there a way to _unbind_ that menu item, so that it has _no_
associated key binding? This can't be done using Ale's method.
Thanks,
Ken
I think the title explains it all. Instead of having to do APPLE + TAB, I
would just like to be able to highlight text and use the TAB key on it's own
to indent my text.
I guess this shortcut must be listed somewhere (APPLE + TAB). In future, how
can I find it so I can change it?
Thanks for any help offered.
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I'd like to use this key binding for something else, but I can't find
the TextMate default binding for ^J anywhere to unbind it; not in a
bundle, and not in the System's Keyboard Preferences binding list.
In general, is there an easy way to find out where a particular
keybinding is set?
Thanks,
Ken
Sorry for double-posting too, still trying to figure this mail-list/forum
thing out...
desmond wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am a CSS, HTML, occasional PHP/Javascript developer new to Textmate
> and have been hunting around for a good HTML bundle. I may be looking
> in the wrong places, but basically, I would love to find something
> that gives a few of the old features from Homesite, if that is
> actually possible. I would love to find some kind of bundle with the
> following:
>
> - Code colouring similar to that of Homesite and Dreamweaver.
>
> - Auto tag completion similar to Homesite and Dreamweaver, so when
> you type the ending ">" of a div tag for example, it writes out the
> closing tag. This would be instead, or in addition to, the feature of
> hitting CTRL + < to close the tag.
>
> - Some kind of HTML, CSS validation, similar to the way Homesite used
> to do it. Can you include validation in a bundle?
>
> - Tab to indent selected text. This is a feature in all other HTML editors
> I've used, how can I turn it on so highlighting text and hitting the TAB
> key will indent it, instead of APPLE + TAB? (Shift tab to un-indent).
>
> Tell me if I'm dreaming! Either way, it would be great if someone
> could point me in the right direction for finding good HTML bundles.
> Googling doesn't seem to get the results I want.
>
> Cheers for any help.
>
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svnmerge.py is working fine on the command line, I can issue the
command svnmerge.py avail, no problem, but I am getting the following
error with Show Available Revisions for Merging in the subversion
bundle:
/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Subversion.tmbundle/
Support/format_log.rb:262: undefined method `make_foot' for
main:Object (NoMethodError)
NoMethodError
reason: undefined method `make_head' for main:Object
trace:
/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/Subversion.tmbundle/
Support/format_log.rb:72
Any ideas?
Thanks, Mark
Quite possibly something I've messed up myself. When I'm editing a Ruby
file and I hit command-R to run the file, I get a pop up window called
'Run' indicating problems. I can't even copy the text from that window
(it doesn't seem to make it to the clipboard) though the ultimate
problem appears to be that something is trying to invoke '+' on nil.
I've a attached a screenshot of the full error report.
Is this a simple, obvious problems? (Well, I mean to people other than
me :-) ).
Thanks,
Ken
Hello all,
It seems that the XCode bundle's Run and Build & Run commands assume that the build folder is in the same location as the (TextMate project file? XCode project file? [1]).
At least in my case, the build folder is somewhere else. The attached patch lets you override the default build folder location with an optional TM_XCODE_BUILD_FOLDER environmental variable. It also explicitly prints out where the XCode bundle is trying to launch the app from, to (hopefully) point people in the direction of TM_XCODE_BUILD_FOLDER.
On the topic of Xcode bundle patches, I also have one to provide a TM_XCODE_PRODUCT_NAME, for when you can't find the product name to run. I thought this just had something to do with my project's complex setup, but looking through the log of run_xcode_target.rb it seems the XCode bundle makes a few guesses which may not turn out (see log for r7057), and there's no way for the user to _force_ the issue. If TM_XCODE_PRODUCT_NAME would be useful, I'll send that in a separate email.
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[1] Or maybe the XCode bundle is reading the information from the project file? If this is the case, my project uses a series of .xcconfig files to specify settings (including TARGET_BUILD_DIR / CONFIGURATION_BUILD_DIR), so that's why the default doesn't work for me....
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Let me know if you have any questions or concerns and I'll try to resolve them.
Later,
_Ryan Wilcox
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