This is an issue I just discovered, and I was wondering if it could get fixed:
TextMate doesn't make coffee yet (black is fine, no sugar or milk needed).
Also, I told it to wake me on time for the news, and it was 8 minutes late.
Allan?
Regards,
Martin
>Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:20:01 -0700
>From: Curtis Schofield <schofiel(a)telusplanet.net>
>
>I'm trying to get used to the automatic () {} behaviour.. sometimes i
>wrap
>if/parameterlists around existing code and i get an automatic } or )
>when i don't
>expect.
What I do it select the text I want to enclose and then press the '('
or '{' and it's done. It's kinda scary the first time, 'cause you'd
expect the selected text to be replaced by the character you typed.
But the second time will bring a smile to your face.
eg. type 'if' hold the shift key down, press the arrow key to move the
cursor to where you want it, press the '(' and so on...
Carl
>Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:37:49 +1100
>From: Justin French <justin.french(a)indent.com.au>
>
>Wait 'till you find yourself back in BBEdit or any other program and
>*expect* them (and completion, and snippets) to work and they don't.
>I'm starting to wish everything (Mail.app, where I do the bulk of my
>typing for example) behaved like TM.
Yes. When I have to use Vi or command line psql and no matter how long
I wait, the closing thing never appears. It seems so _broken_...
Carl
Hi All,
Just wanted every web developer to know about these scripts/commands
that I have just created and available here:
[ http://wiki.macromates.com/textmate/show/Howtos ]
1. Preview in Browser: Safari, Firefox and IE5
These commands will take the current file and then load it in a new
browser window. Works with both local files [ file://path/to/file.html
] and
web server based files [ http://www.somesite.com/file.html ] as long as
you create a new project Shell Variable called TM_PROJ_SITEURL with the
full URL.
Please note. Still some issues with Safari not being able to open a new
window on its own to sort out.
2. Reload Browser: Safari, Firefox, IE5 and All 3 browsers.
These commands will do a reload of the current page in each browser
separately or all at the same time.
Hope they are useful to you all.
Kind regards,
Mats
On Nov 5, 2004, at 19:12, Mike Chambers wrote:
> First of all, just bought my license, and want to say what a great
> editor this has been thus far.
> Now, onto my question:
>
> I am trying to duplicate the refresh safari command to work with
> FireFox. Here is what I have thus far:
>
> osascript -e 'tell application "FireFox" to activate'
> osascript -e 'tell application "FireFox" to do JavaScript
> "window.location.reload();" in first document'
>
> This works, except that FireFox does not refresh the active page.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to get this working?
> mike c
Hi Mike & welcome to the fold.
You've helped me before on the Flash mailing list (many years ago now),
so I thought I should help you as far as I can tonight (it's 9.30pm
here)
The problems you are having is to do with the AppleScript syntax and
limited AS support in Firefox.
The following Applescript works in Script Editor and just needs to be
converted into TM working code. Don't have time to do so tonight : (
set theActiveURL to "http://www.macromedia.com/"
tell application "Firefox"
activate
OpenURL theActiveURL
end tell
You would use $TM_FILE_PATH to get the path to the file and load it as
a local non-parsed file. IF you are previewing a file through a web
server, then I guess you need to add a Project Shell Variable (info btn
in project drawer when no file is selected) with the URL prefix and
then use a bit of fancy footwork to add the variables together into a
full URL.
I'll think about it over the weekend, but can't promise a solution, but
I'm sure you - and many others - will have worked it out before then. :
)
Hope that helped you a bit on the way.
Kind regards,
Mats
The tab metaphor for opened files works fairly well, especially if you
make the effort to open related files next to each other. The tabs
should shrink smaller imo, but that's a separate issue.
The question I have is -- if you are working on two files that are far
apart in the tab bar, is there any shortcut for switching between them?
My thought is that the program could maintain a history list of viewed
files, and then a key binding could be assigned to navigate back and
forward over that history list. Could this be added? (Or does this
capability exist somehow?)
Cheers,
Wayne
Hi,
When I've got many files open in the project drawer, it's difficult to
track down the one I want. It would be great if there was an option to
sort the files alphabetically.
Cheers,
Andrew.
--
All views are my own - who else would want them?
http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/
Hello,
Is there a way to adjust the height of the tab bar and force the tabs to
"wrap" (similar to how UltraEdit does it), rather than having to click
on the double arrows and select from the dropdown on the right when the
tabs spill over?
If not, is this something that could go into a future release?
Thanks,
-Justin
Sorry to gripe, but pressing undo after writing a line of code is like
trying to walk up a downward moving escalator. I know it's been said
before but here is another plea to the steadfast, cooperative
developers: at least consider an option to let undo step back word by
word instead of character by character (what would be the nicest is to
step back in logical "chunks" the same way bbedit does).
thanks, Kumar
Hello everyone. I tweaked the folding icons again. Still using the
Stoplight color metaphor, but made them a little less saturated and a little
smoother around the edges. I made the Bookmark Icon blue too. Attached is
a screenshot and the required PNGs.
To install:
1. control-click on TextMate in the Finder and select "Show Package
Contents"
2. double-click on "Contents" in the window that opens
3. double-click on "Resources"
4. copy my replacement pngs to this Resources folder. Accept the dialog to
replace the existing pngs.
Feel free to add this to the wiki.
Simon
Cmd-Shift-L for select line only selects the physical line, not the logical;
if the line was wrapped it will not select the second part. This also causes
the default Duplicate Line macro to not work correctly on wrapped lines I
think. Is this easily fixable?
Regards,
Martin
PS. just ritually sacrificed BBEdit, now that TextMate supports the ODB
Editor Suite.
Hi Allan,
When I double-click on a PHP variable name it selects the whole word
(without the preceding $) as expected. Because I want to select the
whole thing I automatically do a Shift-Left Arrow to add the $ but
something strange happens and I get about half the word selected
without the $. Any chance of fixing this?
My expected behaviour is whichever arrow key (left or right) you first
start using after selecting the text should allow you to expand or
contract the selection at the appropriate end.
Also a suggestion (which BBEdit supports) is that a second shift double
click on a different word should select everything between and
including the two words.
Thanks for your time,
James
Hi,
I am trying to edit some SVG documents. When I open them one at a time
they work fine. When I try to open them in a project (to get tabs even
though I don't want the drawer and stuff :) it doesn't work. They don't
display, and if I click or double-click them in the drawer they try to
open in the browser instead of in the editor.
Is there a list of known bugs to not dupe reports? I couldn't find one,
but then I'm rather tired today.
Thanks,
--
Robin Berjon
Two marvelously useful features that I use heavily for programming all
kinds of language in Emacs and XEmacs are:
- Tab Always Indent: when this option is on, hitting the TAB key
always just indents the current line
- indent-region: re-indent the selection
I see you already have editing over sftp in your todo for 1.1.
TextMate looks like a good start and might find a nice niche. It's a
bit rough around the edges at the moment. And I find it hard to work
without the two indent features I mention above. Maybe I should add
them to the Feature requests page?
-Travis
Hi,
one feature I would really love to have would be the ability to have
tabs without needing a project (if there is I really couldn't find it).
I really like tabs but I only occasionally work using projects. Having
the option to say "any files I open are opened as a tab in the current
window" would positively rock.
Also, having a way of telling TM that you want all your windows full
screen at 0,0 would be really nice and far more usable than what the
default OSX behaviour provides.
--
Robin Berjon
There is really only one rule (apart from normal netiquette) I want you
to uphold:
When you write a _new_ letter to this mailing list, _don't_ use “reply”
on an existing letter (to get the To: filled in).
It screws up threading!!!
If you're using Mail.app, you can control-click the “To” of an existing
letter and select “New Message” to get a compose window with the “To”
header filled in.
Threading is a very useful feature, and especially for me with this
mailing list, since it's basically an archive of user feedback, and I'd
like for the table-of-contents to show _every_ thread, which it
currently doesn't, when one thread contain 2-3 _different_ subjects,
because people have used reply (then it only show the first subject).
So PLEASE remember _not_ to use reply (for new letters)!!!
Is there a compelling reason to use cmd-opt-arrows for tab shifting?
Safari uses Cmd-Shift-Arrow...if there's no reason to stay with the
current setting, I request that TextMate match Safari.
--
(-, /\ \/ / /\/
Hi,
Is it possible to do a "columnar selection" with the keyboard only?
Hold Alt while moving the cursor would be the logical shortcut for
such a thing I think (it doesn't seem to be used for other things?).
I don't use the tabs (ie. they're hidden) whenever I have a project
open (in the project drawer), is it possible to navigate up/down in
the projectdrawer with the keyboard?
-- johan
Does anyone know if there is any way to manually define what TM considers to
be a "word" when double-clicking to select? At the moment a dollar sign does
not seem to be part of what TM thinks is a word, and I use these to prefix
variable names. I seem to remember that within S-E-E there is some way of
defining which characters are legit for variable names or something, is such
a thing planned for TM?
Regards
Chris Jenkins
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I really liked when folder names were bold in one of the past betas.
Do other people share my point of view ?
Setting this with a preference, should this require to go to the
terminal and type some "defaults..." thing, would be great.
Dominique PERETTI
http://www.lachoseinteractive.net
Allan, I know you made the change to call bash sub-shells with
'--login' in response to people's problems getting their PATHs set
straight, but I'd like to make an argument towards putting it back the
way it was.
Philosophically, it's just not how things are supposed to work with
bash. The reason .bash_profile is only called on a login shell,
.bashrc is only called on an interactive non-login shell, and BASH_ENV
is consulted for non-interactive shells is so that you can separate
initialization code for these very different conditions.
Practically, since, by default, .bash_profile is only called on a
login shell, people use it to put initialization code that should only
be run when they log in ... knowing that that's the only time it will
run. For example, people output stuff to the screen, they mess with
their stty settings to get their keyboard working correctly, etc.
People don't typically protect any of that stuff in if statements so
that it only runs if there is a tty because ... there should always be
one in a login shell.
By changing TextMate to use a login shell, it now executes all that
cruft in the subshell. Every time I run a command it now inserts into
the TextMate buffer all this extra stuff from my .bash_profile that
I've sent to the screen, and errors from my trying to run stty without
a tty. To combat that, I'm going to have to go through my
.bash_profile and surround any of that kind of code with if statements
that test if there is a tty or not.
So, in trying to make things easier for people (not having to set
BASH_ENV in their enviroment) I think this is going to wind up making
it harder for people (having to escape code with if statements all
through their .bash_profile). I would bet that you'll start to see a
lot of problems come in related to this.
What are your thoughts? Any chance I can convince you to change your
mind on this?
Thanks much.
this is a separate note but related to Dominique's message on orphaned
wiki pages ...
I have twice posted a link to a bundle containing snippets for creating
PHP Documentor tags in PHP scripts ... but both times the link has been
wiped out. Now the wiki seems to have been reorganized so I am
hesitant to repost. Should we have a new page for snippet-related
bundles? I'm not sure if maybe people are wiping out my entry because
it is not a syntax highlighter bundle.
The link is still available here btw :
http://farmdev.com/downloads/PHPDoc.tar.gz
kumar
Sorry, but I kinda liked being able to use Cmd-P for my own purposes :-)
Is there a way to disable that shortcut (using the current beta)?
Regards,
Martin
Two things I miss from BB:
a) Opening/saving directly by FTP/SFTP (not going through Transmit,
Interarchy, etc)
b) "show invisibles"!!! I know this has been asked for already... I
just wasted 10 mins on a file where 2 spaces were emulating a tab;
partly my fault (confused about Tab Emulation) but show invisibles
would be great...
Otherwise I'm loving it. The recent HTML-PHP syntax coloring seems
better, or is that my imagination :) I found myself running MySQL
queries directly in TM... cool! Just think of the possibilities with a
macro :)
Paul
