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by nachodog＠mac.com

General Comments/Questions ======================= 1. Textmate's web preview integration with Markdown is awesome. This feature has drawn me into textmate. 2. I am so tired of bloated Microsoft Word files. Other than the files that people send you, has anyone adopted Textmate as their primary text editor? It seems like a fantastic editor for code, but how is it for someone in education? Writing a Markdown document in Textmate ================================= I understand the basic principals of markdown, but typing the code (albeit, simple) seems burdensome. Is it possible to: * highlight selected items and add a "*" (bullet) at the beginning of the list? * create triggers for the various markdown codes? Markdown Conversion ================= I have had great success in putting markdown document on the web. What are recommendations for converting a markdown document into a text file? Thanks, Stephen

19 years, 3 months

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Questions from a BBEdit user considering switching

by Brian Tully

I just discovered TextMate last week and based on user reviews I decided it was worth a look-see. I have been using the demo exclusively for the past week in an attempt to wean off of BBEdit. However I've noticed a couple of showstoppers for me and I'm hoping I either haven't discovered that they can be done in TextMate or that someone clever has figured out acceptable workarounds. First up, BBEdit has a function under the Search menu "Compare Two Front Documents" which recognizes which windows are open in BBEdit and performs a diff between them. I use this all the time, and usually one of the documents is a remote document being edited via FTP through YummyFTP and TextMate. The only comparable function I found in TextMate is within the Diff bundle, however it specfically requires that both files be in the same project (i.e., local) and that they be selected in the Project drawer. Since I need to compare files remotely to files locally this does not do the trick. I tried reading up on TextMate's dynamic variables, but didn't see anything resembling "TM_OPEN_FILES". Can TextMate accommodate BBEdit's "compare two front documents" function, either through some built-in function I don't know about or through some external bundle/workaround? If not, is this planned in a future release? Next showstopper for me is the inability for TextMate to find/replace recursively through a directory. BBEdit allows me to select the directory of my choice, whereas TextMate seems to require that I define a Project and that only the Project files can be searched. Is there any way to override that? Any plans of expanding this in a future release? Like I said earlier, I'm very tempted to switch from BBEdit to TextMate, so if either/both of the above "showstoppers" could be addressed/accommodated it would be a no brainer. Thanks a bunch. brian

19 years, 3 months

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Tablature bundle

by Michael Daines

Hello, I've been working a little bit on a bundle for writing guitar (and other) tablature. There's syntax highlighting, there's a "blank staff" snippet-like command which will respond to a tuning you set for the whole document, and there are keybindings to insert and delete blank spaces and bar lines for a whole column, and to fill in blank space. Here's a movie: http://www.mdaines.com/system/tablature.mov It goes a little slow since I'm still experimenting with the key bindings. Your input is welcome re: that and anything else! There's a zip archive of the bundle here: http://www.mdaines.com/ system/tablature.zip Presumably it'll go into a source repository or something soon. -- Michael Daines http://www.mdaines.com

19 years, 3 months

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Re: Disable Re-indent Paste per bundle

by Oliver Taylor

In "Re: Disable Re-indent Paste per bundle" Allan Wrote: > You should know that you can use ctrl-cmd V to paste without > re-indenting. Yes, I do know about this. > But I think it should be easy to add a preference to disable > it per scope. That would be fantastic. Sure, *I* know about ctrl-cmd V, but people who've never used TextMate are unlikely to know what's going on. Perhaps I'm deluding myself into thinking that there are people out there who will adopt this bundle without learning all that TextMate has to offer, but I'm thinking ahead. My particular case--the screenwriting bundle--has absolutely no use for this feature, in fact, it gets pretty hairy when pasting large chunks of text around, especially since the language depends, not on markup for it's scope definitions, but indentation.

19 years, 3 months

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Disable Re-indent Paste per bundle

by Oliver Taylor

I know you can disable the re-indenting of text for textmate as a whole, but how is this done on a per-bundle basis? I remember Allan mentioning something about a "commands.plist" file, but I can't find a reference for exactly what that is. Thanks in advance.

19 years, 3 months

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"Edit in TextMate" won't work in Mail.app

by Marcus Ahnve

Hi. When using "Edit in TextMate" in Mail.app, the edited text is not copied back to the original window when saving and closing. However, "Edit in TextMate" does work when using MarsEdit. I assume that there something is up with my Mail.app - has anyone else seen this? Best wishes /Marcus Ahnve -- Marcus Ahnve marcus(a)ahnve.com

19 years, 3 months

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Latex and TM_LATEX_MASTER

by Jeroen van der Ham

Hi, I'm currently working on an article, together with some other authors, so we thought it wise to split it up into separate files, and then one main file, where all the others are \input-ed. Works great, and the TM_LATEX_MASTER variable makes life a little bit easier. However, it turns out that support for this variable is a bit sketchy: - Using a full path in that variable breaks everything. Escaping a full path in quotes breaks it even more. The "Typeset and View" command normally constructs the filename and path itself, and assumes a clean input, but this breaks when the value of TM_LATEX_MASTER is used directly. - If you just give a filename (and the file is in the project root), then "Typeset and View" can at least build the file. Viewing it breaks, because file://localhost/${TM_LATEX_MASTER%.tex}.pdf can not be found. (the variable is properly expanded in the URL, the file just can't be found) I tried to look into it, but I couldn't really figure out how to get it to work properly. I hope someone else here has some time and is willing to look at it. Regards, Jeroen.

19 years, 3 months

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keeping "unofficial" bundles up-to-date with Subversion

by Eric Peden

Those of who you fear the SVN instructions for getting bundles, run away now. There are several nifty bundles out there that for one reason or another aren't in the official subversion repository. To update them, you have to remember to do an 'svn update' for each one. Isn't there an easier way? Yes. Yes there is: svn:externals[1] cd "/Library/Application Support/TextMate" svn propedit svn:externals Bundles This will popup your chosen editor. Now simply enter the name of the bundles you want updated followed by a space and then the path to their subversion repo. For example, here's my (short) list: tAylott_subtleGradient.tmbundle http://textmate.svn.subtlegradient.com/Bundles/tAylott_subtleGradient.tmbun… RubyAndRails-Experimental.tmbundle http://www.eyematz.com/svn/public/TextMate/RubyAndRails-Experimental/RubyAn… Note that those are only two very long lines. Save your changes and leave your editor. Now when you do an 'svn update', it'll automatically fetch changes for the other bundles as well. Caveat emptor for those of you with commit access: make sure you don't accidentally check in the property changes. We mere mortals don't have to worry about this. ;) [1]: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html -- eric These Apples are delicious

19 years, 3 months

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[ANN] assignment block tidier script

by Chris Poirier

Hi all, I've written a ruby script that will tidy-up a series of assignment statements by lining up the equals signs. Installed as a command in TextMate, it can reformat all assignment statements in the current selection, or all assignment statements conitiguous to the current line. Note that the script assumes you uses spaces, not tabs; and I wrote it last night, so there may still be bugs. :-) Anyway, if you are interested, you can find more details and the script itself at: http://random-dreams.org/2006/05/fun-with-textmate-align-equals-in.html Regards, Chris Poirier.

19 years, 3 months

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ASP Bundle?

by Bryan Hughes

I had to do a little work with ASP (not ASP.net) today and I was surprised to see that Textmate did not come with an ASP bundle. So far, my Google searches havn't found any ASP bundles, so I was hopeful that the Textmate community could help me. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!

19 years, 3 months

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Using FileMerge with Subversion

by Trevor Harmon

There's a pending patch [1] that gives TextMate's Subversion bundle automatic support for graphical diff utilities like BBDiff. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten this patch to work with FileMerge because FileMerge and its command-line launcher, opendiff, take non- standard arguments and thus aren't compatible with Subversion. Although wrapper scripts are available, the best one I've used so far [2] has been rather flaky: sometimes it simply fails to launch FileMerge. Today, however, I discovered a new FileMerge wrapper script [3] that seems totally reliable and works quite nicely with the patch. So, to use FileMerge with Subversion, here's what you do: * Install the patch * Put the script somewhere (chmodding it to executable) * Add this to ~/.subversion/config: diff-cmd = <path to script> After that, any Subversion diffs you do will be handled by FileMerge. Trevor [1] http://macromates.com/ticket/show?ticket_id=48F737BE [2] http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn- viewdiff [3] http://ssel.vub.ac.be/ssel/internal:fmdiff

19 years, 3 months

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[ANN] Code Styler/Theme Chooser/Sweet PasteBin

by Soryu

Hey Mates, I made a [Proof of Concept][1] interface of a theme chooser and coder styler for TextMate. Using the fantastic commands from [Brad Choate] [2] to generate `CSS` from TextMate theme and convert documents to `HTML` files, this nifty little thing let's you view code how it would look in TextMate. You can choose a small number of Code snippets and Themes right now and just play with it a little. Feedback welcome. The idea is to use this on your site for pasting code or as a general PasteBin for the `IRC` channel. It's a little `PHP` thingy and some `AJAX` to load the source and I will make it available under `BSD` licence shortly. Again, your Feedback appreciated. There are some items on the TODO list and some incompatibilities and/or browser flaws to master. Just don't nag me too much why your theme is not included in the list right now ;) Also the professional themers out there (namely Thomas Aylott and Infiniknight) are welcome to send me some of their sample code fpr theme designing if they are willing to share it :). Thanks to Jacob Rus for his ideas and Brad Choate for the nice commands. So long (and thanks for all the fish), *Soryu*. [1]: http://projects.serenity.de/textmate/codestyler/source.php [2]: http://www.bradchoate.com/

19 years, 3 months

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Smart typing question

by John Tsombakos

Hi, I have what may be a simple question about Smart typing. How do you all "finish" typing something that has smart typing characters? Here's a simple example: Typing in some HTML, an input tag.. type <input type=" and TextMate helpfully enters the second " character. Thank you TM. Now I enter the type: text Now my cursor is still within the quotes. By habit, I type the closing quote, but now I'm just defeating the purpose of smart typing. My option, as I see, is to read and hit the right-arrow key. A slightly more complicated example - in PHP: array["something"] As soon as I type [" it looks like: array["|"] (where "|" is my cursor. Again, thanks TM. But now, after typing 'something', I have to move past the " and ]. Am I missing some simple navigation? It's a simple thing that's making my want to turn off Smart typing. Thanks!

19 years, 3 months

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[ANN] Balance Jr 2.0 & Screencast!

by thomas Aylott

I rewrote a bunch of stuff in my Balance Jr Command. I made a new screencast. Blog Post http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2006/05/06/balance-jr-2-0-for- textmate-screencast Download in a zip http://trippledoubleyou.subtlegradient.com/textmate/ tAylott_subtleGradient.tmbundle.zip Subscribe with SVN http://textmate.svn.subtlegradient.com/Bundles/ tAylott_subtleGradient.tmbundle/ enjoy Take that, Intelligent Jump! ;) thomas Aylott subtleGradient oblivious(a)subtleGradient.com

19 years, 3 months

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Groups & folders

by Timothy Reaves

I'm using groups so that I can hove more that on project folder per TextMate instance. TextMate seems unable to deal with this. Many commands that use the project directory environment variable - such as Subversion - fail. And sometimes the value is set to '/' and other times it is set to an actual folder in the group. Is this a known defect? Is there a workaround? Thanks.

19 years, 3 months

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Re: Cake Bundle redefines .php extension

by Samuel DeVore

It did, but thankfully Allan fixed it, it was due to a misunderstanding on my part. Sorry Sam D On 5/15/06, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com > > > I just created a new PHP file in TextMate, and the file type popup at > the bottom was set to Cake, and not HTML (which I assume is correct > for a PHP file). The Cake bundle does claim PHP in it's filetype list. > Is this correct? > >

19 years, 3 months

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[ANN] RubyAndRails-Experimental bundle a.k.a Ruby & Rails syntax improved

by Mats Persson

OK, everyone seems to be adding some new functionality to TM these days, so I thought it was about time for me to get on that bandwagon again after a long time away ;-) So here is the RubyAndRails-Experimental bundle which will do the following: 1. Syntax Highlight all known Ruby & Rails methods Especially for those that like me waste large amounts of time looking for 'spelling' bugs, where I/we have spelled a method wrongly. In other words: typing "validate_confrimation_of" will NOT highlight since it’s spellt wrongly, while "validates_confirmation_of" will highlight correctly. Just make sure you have highlighting on for the 'support.function' scope. 2. CodeCompletion Pressing ESC after typing a few characters will now give you a complete listing of all known Ruby, Rails or Ruby & Rails methods that begins with those characters. Built in support for three separate scopes if you so wish. (Requires some editing of scopes in the Bundle window) Nope, does NOT yet support code base scanning for your own defined methods. :( Please feel free to improve upon this! ;-) 3. Ruby 'ri' Documentation Support View ri's informational output based upon the currently selected word OR the current word your cursor is within. Requires that you have the ri documentation installed, or it will give you a information text telling you that. Great !! So where do I get hold of it ?? If you have SVN installed just copy and run either of these commands: svn checkout http://www.eyematz.com/svn/public/TextMate/RubyAndRails- Experimental/RubyAndRails-Experimental.tmbundle RubyAndRails- Experimental.tmbundle svn export http://www.eyematz.com/svn/public/TextMate/RubyAndRails- Experimental/RubyAndRails-Experimental.tmbundle RubyAndRails- Experimental.tmbundle or else download it from here: [ http://www.imediatec.co.uk/tm/ bundles/RubyAndRails-Experimental.tmbundle.v1.zip ] and then double-click the bundle to install it. Enjoy ! And if somethings not working OK, please let me know, preferably with a diff patch ;-) Kind regards, Mats ---- "TextMate, coding with an incredible sense of joy and ease" - www.macromates.com - "RubyOnRails development done the Mac way" - locomotive.raaum.org -

19 years, 3 months

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TextMate vs Emacs

by Mark Eli Kalderon

There is a nice review talking about the comparative advantage of TextMate over Emacs at macdevcenter.com: http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/05/ emacs_est_mort_vive_le_textmat_1.html?CMP=OTC-13IV03560550&ATT=Emacs +Est+Mort+Vive+Le+TextMate Best, Mark

19 years, 3 months

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Latex & View script

by Alain Matthes

Hello:) I would like to know which kind of script is used for the writing of Latex & View in order to be able to modify it. I would like to include something like: #!/bin/sh FILE=${1%.*} cat >temptex<<EOF \documentclass{article} \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \input $FILE \end{document} EOF pdflatex temptex $FILE is $1 is the script used in Textmate Thanks Alain Matthes

19 years, 3 months

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Cake Bundle redefines .php extension

by John Tsombakos

I just created a new PHP file in TextMate, and the file type popup at the bottom was set to Cake, and not HTML (which I assume is correct for a PHP file). The Cake bundle does claim PHP in it's filetype list. Is this correct? Thanks! jt

19 years, 3 months

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Language grammar regexp inconsistency or blunder on my part?

by Michael Daines

Hello, I've been fooling around a little with trying to create a language grammar for guitar tablature, and I ran into a problem with matching something like this: E 0-------|--------|--------| B --0-----|0-------|--------| G ----0---|--0-----|0-------| D ------0-|----0---|--0-----| A --------|------0-|----0---| E --------|--------|------0-| I should probably know my TERMINOLOGY better in order to do this, but I'm calling this thing a "block" for now. Every document will have 1 or more of these. I attempted to write a rule that would match one these things: { name = 'block.tablature'; match = '([A-G].+\n){6}'; } This doesn't seem to match a section like this, but if I use the find command with that regexp, the "block" is found and selected. What am I missing? -- Michael

19 years, 3 months

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[ANN] CSS Preview command

by Brad Choate

A couple of days ago I checked in a new CSS bundle command for doing a preview. You can find this in the macromates.com subversion repository: http://anon:anon@macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/ CSS.tmbundle/Commands/Preview.plist The goal was to generate a preview HTML page from the CSS rules declared. It's not perfect, but it's a first stab at it. I've seen similar functionality in TopStyle (for Windows) and a single-item preview in CSSEdit (for Mac). The command is bound to Ctrl+Option+Cmd +P. Note that since it is scoped to source.css, hitting this key within an HTML document with the caret inside a CSS block will also invoke the CSS Preview. If this happens, it will submit the contents of the CSS block as the input to the command (using the new 'Scope' input option). The command also works on a selection; so if you have a few CSS rules you want to preview, you can select them first. Feedback as always is appreciated-- there are still some rough edges (ie, how to handle absolute-positioned rules or floats), but it's pretty useful to me already. -Brad

19 years, 3 months

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Drag Commands for URLs?

by Daniel Käsmayr

Is it possible to have certain drag commands that react to URLs being dragged there from a browser or any other way? I would love to have a drag command for markdown… but I suppose it would also be very useful for the HTML bundle etc. Dan

19 years, 3 months

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Restriction / "enter" folds

by Tom Locke

Hi I know Textmate has folding, but does it have a feature that old- school folding editors called "enter fold" i.e. the ability to hide everything *but* the contents of the fold. Folding mode in emacs has this - I think the emacs term is "restricting" the buffer. I live by this feature - with the right keyboard shortcuts you can fly around the file without ever scrolling. If textmate has this, I'm probably going to switch, if not, is there much chance of it making it into 2.0? Tom.

19 years, 3 months

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Subversion commit, keyboard only

by Trevor Harmon

There was some talk not too long ago about keyboard-only commits in the Subversion bundle [1]. Chris Thomas said he would set up the Enter key (not to be confused with the Return key) to act as the commit button. However, this only works if you have an Apple keyboard. Some of us (hint, hint) use non-Apple keyboards, and even the ones that are designed for the Mac (they have a little Apple icon on the command keys, for instance) may not have an Enter key [2]. Is there anything that can be done to accommodate us? Trevor [1] http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2005-March/003341.html [2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006FRUI/002-4902042-8352038

19 years, 3 months

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