A colleague recently upgraded to 1.1b15, and since doing that she cant get
project windows to appear, they are listed as being open under the window
menu, but cannot be seen onscreen - is this a known problem? She isnt
running Tiger, whereas I am and have no problem with b15, could this have
something to do with it?
Regards
Chris Jenkins
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Hi Guys,
This is my first post. I just wanna say: Wow! This thing looks
truly awesome! But... for those of us doing non-western and non-
UTF-8 encoding web pages, it's unusable.
Oh please please PLEASE add support for Shift-JIS and EUC-JP! (japanese)
Cheers,
Sean
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My favorite text editor on Windows is UltraEdit, and it has a columnar
editing mode which is useful surprisingly often.
I am pretty sure I understand how TextMate's columnar editing works
(option-arrow to create column selection, then type). However, having
a columnar mode makes the feature much more useful.
When in the columnar mode, any cursor movement stays in the mode, and
shift-arrow does what you'd expect it to: shift-up/down keeps the same
columns selected but adds/removes the next line while shift-left/right
adds/removes the next column for all lines.
When you have one or more columns selected, typing replaces the
contents with the character just pressed, but keeps the same number of
columns.
Typing with 0 selected columns enters that key on every row.
Delete removes all the selected columns, yielding 0 selected columns.
Paste enters the clipboard contents into the first row of the selected
columns, though
honestly, I'd prefer that it pasted to all selected rows.
I think the primary benefit of a columnar mode is the ease of keyboard
selection of the column range.
Additionally, UltraEdit has a feature where you can analyze a
delimited file and automagically convert it to a fixed width file,
which lends itself to columnar editing. When done, you can then
convert it back to a delimited format.
The two features work together to make it great for editing flat files
of both fixed and delimited flavors.
I'm attaching a screenshot of the fixed scan dialog in ultraedit for
illustration of the feature.
It's not the best designed UI ever, but:
x The current file is assumed to be delimited.
x The scan button analyzes the current file's lines to try to determine
the max length needed for each field based on the options selected
(which are all settings except "Keep Delimiter" and "Field Widths").
x Based on this analysis, the Field Widths textbox is populated with
each field's width. If you know the widths needed, you can skip the
scan step and just enter your widths in the Field Widths box directly.
x Once you're happy with the Field Widths values, you click Convert to
translate it to fixed width. The "Keep Delimiter" option determines
whether the original delimiters are stripped from the resulting fixed
file.
The Convert To Delimiter dialog is much simpler (screenshot excluded);
it just takes the last Field Widths used for conversion to fixed, and
slaps on the given delimiter at those lengths.
===
Sorry for the length, but I think these are very useful features which
could be implemented (with a better UI) in TextMate, and I'd be happy
to see them included.
Cheers,
Jeremy Dunck
I just added myself to the list.
My name is Andreas Wahlin, aged 25 from Sweden. I fancy myself as a
"web developer" and know my way around JavaScript, DOM scripting and
such things. I've really just began to discover the rich world of wed
development and try to immerse myself in standards, AJAX and other
buzzwords. I bought a Mac just a few months back, being totally fed
up by windows and not managing to switch to (Suse) Linux. To be
honest, I haven't really switched over to TextMate just yet, but
something clicked with beta15 and I'll probably be doing the switch
real soon, TextMate seems to be heading in the correct way so I
really see it as a future investment!
Andreas
Hey Allan,
TextMate 1.1b15 is great, especially the new Theme editor which
dynamically updates any opened files. MUCH easier to make adjustments
that way.
Unrelated question: is there a specific reason why 'Show invisibles'
does not show spaces, like in... HEY, like in SubEthaEdit for
example ? ;)
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hi there,
i just installed b15 and updated to the bundles svn to 1359 (and
additionally did a fresh checkout, to make sure) and now markdown
doesn't show any syntaxcoloring at all, regardless of the selected
theme.
anyone else? or should I just wait for an update of the bundles
repository?
best regards,
tom
- --
Tom Lazar
http://tomster.org
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After grabbing b15 and copying over the utilities, I'm getting a weird
error when running `tm` from the command-line:
ntalbott@jacob:~/svn/sandbox/sel$ tm
RegisterProcess failed (error = -50)
Abort trap
If I fully qualify `tm`, it works:
ntalbott@jacob:~/svn/sandbox/selector_namespaces$ ~/bin/tm
[window opens]
Strangely enough, `which` says it can't even find `tm`:
ntalbott@jacob:~/svn/sandbox/selector_namespaces$ which tm
no tm in ~/bin /opt/local/bin /usr/local/bin [...]
`tm -v` works:
ntalbott@jacob:~/svn/sandbox/selector_namespaces$ tm -v
tm 1.4 (2005-06-16)
ntalbott@jacob:~/svn/sandbox/selector_namespaces$ ~/bin/tm -v
tm 1.4 (2005-06-16)
Any ideas? Any more info I can provide?
Thanks,
--
Nathaniel Talbott
<:((><
hi there,
i have been creating projects left and right lately and realised,
that 'untitled' is not the best default name (i.e. *never* right) as
opposed to say the name of the toplevel folder that the project
consists of (i.e. *sometimes* right)
just my $0.02,
tom
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Tom Lazar
http://tomster.org
I just had to write out a quick thank you for the way in which you
implemented the spell checker. I can finally get the best of both
worlds - hand coding with check as I type spelling.
Not only that, when I opened up a website I had done a while ago I
easily found a couple of mistakes. In one case it even showed me a
coding mistake & instead of &
As someone that does not know regex or other advanced ways of
customizing TM this new out-of-the-box-feature is a delight!
Thanks
Eric C
Hi folks,
I noticed a couple of odd things this evening while working in TxMt.
1) In the bundle editor, when I add a new bundle (and again when I
added a new snippet to that bundle) the current select went back to
the top of the tree (C in my case) and looked a bit odd into the
bargain.
2) When I have more tabs than will fit in the tab bar (so that you get
the >>), and am looking at a file which is not in the tab bar, there
is no way to get access to that files tab any more.
My apologies if these are known issues, I did have a quick look for
issue tracking in the wiki but couldn't see it.
Regards,
Matt
(who is learning a little more about TxMt every day)
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Hello there,
I downloaded the trial version of TextMate 3 days ago and payed for
it yesterday, am quite happy with what I have seen so far. One of the
big selling points for me is that there is no toolbar! In the past I
used Mellel and chose compact view to turn off the toolbar; I prefer
the floating pallet. Toolbars are just way too distracting on the
eyes, especially MS Word (a way too busy toolbar).
So as a nursing student (RN program in Seattle) I will start using
TextMate and LaTeX to write my papers. One of my prereqs was English
102 in which I had to write a 20 page paper with over 20 references,
4 graphics, using MLA citations. I used Mellel without any type of
bibliography software, and Mellel worked like a champ, quite good at
setting styles; but I never worked with TOC or sections. I did have
to spend extra time manipulating the text to eliminate widows/orphans
and other layout issues. During the 2nd quarter of the program I had
to write a 7 page paper using APA citations. For that one I used
Apple's Pages and rolled my own references again. But first I used
CopyWrite to write the paper before importing into Pages. I did not
use fullscreen mode - don't like it. CopyWrite was really nice for
organizing that paper, and plan on using it again.
This summer I have no classes, so I have spent time learning LaTeX
and have converted the 7 page paper to LaTeX, using BibDesk and the
apacite package. That was using TexShop. To make TextMate a little
like TexShop I installed Schubert's PDF plugin, changed the pdflatex
command to "Command-T" and created a bibtex command set to "Command-
B". I copied latexErrWarnHtml.py into the local Latex.tmbundle (are
there other mods I need to make?).
So I think I am set for next quarter's 15 page paper (on the cardiac
and respiratory systems), and for the Masters program (whenever that
may be).
Thanks for an excellent program for editing LaTeX.
Cheers,
Jeff
Ive been thinking about some of the features that Eclipse has of late and it
strikes me that one of its strengths is the way it manages multiple panes
within a single window, so I was wondering whether it would be possible to
add a new type of window for commands to output into, this is the idea:
instead of opening a new window, open the window embedded within the current
editing window, sort of like Omniweb does with its site preferences, the
window splits horizontally with the site above and the prefs below. This
would be great for commands that check syntax as it would avoid obscuring
the editing window whilst sill allowing access to the output so that it
could be clicked on etc.
What does everyone else think? Allan, do you think this would be a good
idea?
Chris
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I'm not sure if this is a known issue or not, but it would be nice if
it were fixed. Currently when the project drawer updates, it moves
back to the top of the drawer rather than staying wherever it had
previously been put. On large projects this gets pretty annoying.
Using Command-T instead helps a lot, but I still do use the drawer
for other things. I know that redoing the drawer is something on the
todo list, and am wondering if this is part of it? Also if that's
still a ways off, would it be a quick fix in the meantime to remedy
this issue? If it's much work, I wouldn't consider it worth it. If
it's a bitflip..maybe I would ;)
Thanks.
--
Robert M. Zigweid http://robert.zigweid.net
rzigweid(a)zigweid.net
I haven't futzed with the new themes too much until recently -- I just
found some decent colors and ran.
However, as I get back to C from a bunch of Python and other work, I
noticed that the new themes generally seem to lack much definition of
anything in C/C++. It turns out the issue is twofold:
First, of course, the classic problem of distinguishing many different
kinds of elements in a simple C/C++ parser. C parsers aren't easy or
fun to write, and so the current language definitions, perhaps not
surprisingly, don't seem to detect declaration.function, variable,
entity.class, declaration.name.class, etc.
However, somewhat more vexing was the fact that some themes (Pastels
on Dark) seemed to have substantially less styling than others in C.
Looking further into the theme definitions, however, revealed that
Pastels on Dark, in particular, was designed to rely on bold text just
as much as color, and I wasn't seeing it.
Switching fonts to Courier [New] revealed the bold face elements, but
it seems odd that my font of choice -- Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, which
has a perfectly good Bold which shows up in the font selection dialog,
and which renders fine as the whole-document default font if set to
bold -- didn't show up as bold in the elements styled to be bold-face.
I've never done any development against Apple's Font APIs, but I'd
guess there's some bug which is preventing the Bold variant from being
detected in the Bitstream font. Perhaps it has something to do with
the fact that the default appears as BitstreamVeraSansMono–Roman
(meaning that it appears that the default is set to a specific
variant, rather than to the base font, since Roman stands in for
Regular in the Bitstream Vera font packages)?
I'd love to see this fixed. And is there any news on the C/C++
language definition front? Has anyone tried to add more sensitive
language definitions with more detailed elements, like those I
mentioned? It seems this sort of task would be made much easier by
the ability to define and use a symbol table from within the language
definition grammars (since tokens in C-like languages generally can't
be re-used, just detecting the type of their declaration should be
enough to style every subsequent element with the same name in a given
file), but perhaps this is too much to ask of the already
freshly-rewritten language parser engine. I'd be glad to work on it,
one way or another, as long as no one else is already doing so.
-jrk
Anyone getting kernel panics on Tiger? I'm running 10.4.2 and I can
consistently crash the machine with TextMate, on both my PowerBook
and G5. Last night I had another one which caused my OS to not
reboot, and I had to re-install Tiger. I see that only 10.3 is
supported but I liked the tool so much that I tried it on Tiger.
Thanks!
-dP
What ever happened to the option to restore open files/projects
whenever TextMate is relaunched? I used to appreciate this and didn't
quite notice when exactly it disappeared (or if it just got switched
off somewhere in my config and I stupidly can't find it).
Thanks.
-jrk
I recently discovered that Safari supports simple drag navigation
around large pages rather line Photoshop's space-drag functionality:
by simply holding ctrl and moving the mouse (not dragging -- the mouse
button remains up), the cursor changes to a hand which grabs and drags
the page. Perhaps I'm really late to the game on this one, but I'm
totally hooked.
I've been finding, however, that I'm so attached to this mode of
navigation when reading in Safari that I'm constantly subconsciously
trying to do it in all sorts of other apps. I personally think this
would be a fantastic way to browse text in TextMate. Like all good
programmers, I'm of course completely attached to the keyboard when
actively developing, but there are many times when trying to figure
out some code or reading a README is much more like browsing than
active development, and in these situations I'd really love to have
this sort of interface. It's particularly great for trackpad (or
wacom tablet) use.
Far from super-high priority, but at least worth a brief thought, as
it's probably not the most challenging bit of polish to add.
-jrk
Does anybody have any speedup tips for textmate? It never was the
fastest of text editors but it's latest release (not CVS but stable)
is really unworkable on my little iBook. Even in a 100 line html file
it takes forever to scroll to the end of a line or the bottom of the
document.
I only use textmate for PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript and Ruby so would
it help if i just scrap all the extra's for the diferrent programming
languages?
Thanks for any optimization tips you might have!
--
Tijs Teulings
Automatique
m: +31 (0)624685608
www.automatique.nl
Hi,
I'm not sure if this have been discussed before, but when I drag and
drop an image file from the Finder to an HTML document in TextMate,
this is what I get :
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias
of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
<img src="Angela-Brunton/Angela-Brunton-1.jpg" width="600"
height="570" alt="Angela Brunton 1" />
If I drag *two* images or more, the error message appears in the alt
attribute of all elements, except the last one :
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias
of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
<img src="Angela-Brunton/Angela-Brunton-2.jpg" width="600"
height="356" alt="## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in
a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
<img src="Angela-Brunton/Angela-Brunton-3.jpg" width="600"
height="426" alt="Angela Brunton 3" />" />
Has this bug been identified ?
Thanks,
- n.
Here are a couple of Project Drawer feature requests.
1. Double-click on folder name should expand folder. (iTunes's Radio
streams used to work the way TextMates does now, but with the latest
release they've enhanced it as I'm suggesting). It's a small point, but
frequently used interface elements shouldn't rely solely on a tiny triangle.
2. Standard keyboard shortcuts. First-letter navigation to file or
folder beginning with that letter would be great. Command-Down-arrow
should open file or expand folder. Return key should rename.
Thanks for a great product. As a recent switcher I honestly feel
TextMate is one of the big advantages of using a Mac.
--Dylan
Hi,
Can anyone tell me why "Hide TextMate" and "Hide Others" in the Apple
menu might end up being disabled? I have the focus in a document but
can't use either, other apps seem to hide okay though.
What am I doing wrong?
Regards,
Matt
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I'd love to use soft wrap, but find it completely unusable in code
when long lines wrap to column 0 of the next line, rather than to some
appropriate indent level. Is this configurable somewhere, like it is
in Xcode, VisualStudio, etc.?
Thanks.
-jrk
Allan,
first let me just say how much I am appreciating the "go to symbol"
popup, a real timesaver and so much nicer than my hand made version,
however I am wondering whether it would be possible to somehow
specify the ordering of this list? For me, using large-ish class
files it lists all the functions (which is good), but it would be
nice to have these in alphabetical order as opposed to the order in
which they occur in the file. I can image that this isn't the way
that everyone would want it, maybe some sort of preference or syntax
file option would work? Do you have anything of this nature planned?
Regards
Chris
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