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[TextMate] [ANN] PHP & Smarty Syntax coloring

by James Spahr

I've been having fun poking around Textmate. I spent today picking through the internals to create my own syntax coloring for PHP and Smarty. Smarty ( http://smarty.php.net/ ) is a templating system for PHP. http://www.spahr.org/share/PHP_Smarty.tmbundle.zip Anyone is welcome to download and modify at as they please. Of note : a complete php function list is included in the php syntax file. I'm quite please with the Smarty coloring, all html elements are in cool and muted tones, and all smarty template logic is in saturated and warm tones -- it's rather easy to see what's what. James.

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[TextMate] Re: Preferences window (was ProFont)

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7.10.2004, space aliens observed Benny saying: >>BTW, what the heck is "Freehanded edit"? >It is an editing mode in which the caret is free to go anywhere in >the display i.e. it is not limited horizontally by newlines. Kind of >like in really old-style editors. Ah! That's pretty awesome! No more of this foolish entering of spaces! :-) lucas - -- "You'd have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood." -- Philip K. Dick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWT+lrXYdom/dB2cEQK46gCdFO6dQNkgoHsS4iOTg8wa8Qham5AAoN6m In6xZGE/p7BdgcpYovPowGby =M4HB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Feature Request (and some thoughts on Preferences)

by Ian Phillips

How about this as a solution for preferences: 1. Move all of the preferences off the menus and into a separate (command-, invoked!) window. 2. Add a toolbar and allow most of the preference options to be added to it via the "customize..." option. This would allow users to make frequently changed preferences easily available, and it seems to be the method that a few other apps have chosen. And now for some feature requests: 1. Allow projects to define their own variables in the same way that you can with the defaults command line tool. This would be useful when setting up templates and snippets. 2. Add a separate "New" sub-menu, which bundles can contribute to, I see this working like the existing templates feature, but with parameters in a similar to snippets. Probably need to have the parameters configured in the property list that would go with the template file. 2a. An alternative to this would be to allow template property lists to specify a series of parameters that would be prompter for in a dialog before the file is created. E.g. { parameter = "1"; displayName = "Class Name"; defaultValue = "MyClass"; } 3. A minor UI tweak: have the encoding and line endings embedded in the status bar, this could either be a read-only display, or a combo-box to alter them. 4. Add a preference/option to show or hide white space characters (e.g. line endings, tabs, etc.). What do people think? Yours, Ian. #ifndef __COMMON_SENSE__ | Ian Phillips #include <std_disclaimer> | http://ianp.org #endif

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[TextMate] Quote auto complete

by Rad Smith

I'm not sure if I'm using it right, but the quote auto completion seems to slow me down, as most of the time you need to add something after a quote, but I'm required to use the right arrow key to move over a character to go past the quote, which is a rather long distance compared to the quote key. Is there some trick I don't know about?

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[TextMate] Re: Preferences window (was ProFont)

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Sune Foldager saying: >Good, argumentative reasons for it, please! :-). For me, it went something like this: "OK, now I want to change the background color of this window. That must be in Preferences. Uhm. No preferences in the app menu. Must be burried somewhere. Probably in Edit. Nope. Maybe in Window? Nah. Okay, so I'll go through each menu. Oh, Color Settings. Okay, but that only works with syntax highlighting disabled. That must mean that there are more settings somewhere else. I guess I just missed the Preferences. They *must* be in the app menu. Argh. Okay, "TextMate Help". What, you mean I can't change this?" Had all settings been inside a Preferences dialog, it would have been clear what the user can change and what he can't right from the beginning. Having preferences inside the menu has additional problems. It clutters the menu with things you use seldomly, which makes things you use more often (like actual commands) harder to find. And it makes it harder to find preferences, because it's often not clear where a given preference should go, and if you can't find it, you can't be sure whether you just missed it or whether it simply doesn't exist at all. A preferences window also gives you room for additional information about settings. BTW, what the heck is "Freehanded edit"? lucas - -- "Afer all, who needs courage when you have a gun?" -- Prof Hubert Farnsworth -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWTtN7XYdom/dB2cEQKLfwCeJdL0hMZkjcm0MqGbsh+tdQ2ZZt8An2be sREVT2jSFy1pLzFpZrdamzIu =mtXU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Automatic Opening in Scratch Project mode?

by Patrick Burleson

I have been waiting for a good and affordable text editor to come along for OS X. I come from the Windows world and used UltraEdit there. The one thing I really like about TextMate is the Tabbed interface much like other MDI like editors such UltraEdit and IntelliJ IDEA, especially the re-ording of tabs. I just wish that TextMate offered this tabbing without having to create a project or even a scratch project. It would be really neat if TextMate just opening up in scratch project mode. Is possible in the current version? Other than that and some more syntax highlighting, it's a great piece of work! You are to be commended! First editor I have used on OS X that felt "right". Patrick

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[TextMate] Tab in snippets

by Joost Schuttelaar

Small thingie: I think it would be very convenient if after entering all the parameters in the snippet, the tab key would place the cursor at the end of the snippet. Example: ahref\thttp://somewhere.com/\tsomewhere\t results in <a href="http://somewhere.com/">somewhere</a>CURSOR instead of <a href="http://somewhere.com/">somewhere CURSOR</a> :) BTW: I'm starting to enjoy this editor very much...! :) -- Joost Schuttelaar

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[TextMate] (no subject)

by timothy martens

Any plans for XHTML/CSS code hinting? And what about browser previews other than the built in safari rendering? Also, can we just have the project drawer show up by default. There's hardly ever an instance where I wouldn't need/want it in view. -t

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[TextMate] Re: TextMate first impression (longish)

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed drew saying: >I keep my dock quite small, and the icon just looks like a nasty >brown blur. Yeah, the problem with the icon isn't that it's ugly (I really don't care either way), but that you can't easily recognize it if it's bellow a certain size, which it is in my dock. That's what's great about BBEdit's icon. It may not be pretty, but I always see it immediately because it's unique. lucas - -- "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." -- Abraham Lincoln -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWTtP7XYdom/dB2cEQKZfgCgo5hqWe9T4OU47+Suu+3HXIlIn0oAoOmC 7BDdL/cTMVoVukEEYISBRuBc =acBq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Re: HTML, auto-complete and snippets

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Justin French saying: >>The main feature I use in BBEdit is the excellent CSS support. I can >>easily create new CSS rules and find out what the correct syntax is. >>Having something similar in TextMate would be great. >All the CSS properties (font-size, width, height, etc) are all in >there as keywords, as are all the units (px, em, etc). Agreed, most >of the values (bold, underline, block) are not in there yet, and TM >has no idea if "left" is a valid value for "float", but I don't think >BBEdit knows this either... It does, though :-) Here's how BBEdit work. If I have something like this: .foo { } I move the cursor between the two brackets and hit Cmd-M. This gives me a list of properties. I select one. This gives me something like this: .foo { border-color: ; } Then I hit Cmd-Opt-M, and now I get a list of possible values for this property along with related properties. HTML tags work the same. This helps since - I only ever use tags that are valid in the scope that I am in - I always know what tags/properties I can use and how to spell them - I always know what values are allowed I'm not sure if something along those lines is planned for TextMate since it may not be as much targeted at HTML as BBEdit is, but it would certainly be very nice to have something like this, maybe even more automatic, for example with dropdown lists of legal functions/tags/properties/values/... automatically appearing while typing. lucas - -- "I hate words." "Words suck." "If I wanted to read, I'd go to school." -- Beavis & Butthead -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWQmVrXYdom/dB2cEQJMKACgpXlWarOtjYDq1G1xC2kVjUTXLT4AniDv QYLRRQoh7EyG7msEVmKmR/E4 =yi2e -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Selecting tags and their contents

by John Marstall

This is something I've longed for but have never seen it in any text editor yet: the ability to simply select markup tags and/or their enclosed contents. Most editors follow the selection logic of word > line, which IMO is rarely useful in working with code. What I'd like is an assortment of modifier-clicks (command-click, option-click, command-shift-click, option-shift-click, etc.) that perform the following: (when the pointer is inside a tag) - single-click selection of the current, single tag - single-click selection of the current tag, its corresponding opening/closing tag, and everything in between (when the pointer is between two tags) - single-click selection of everything between the two most immediate tags (and excluding the tags themselves), with perhaps additional clicks casting wider and wider inter-tag selections (going from <td>[selection]</td> to <tr>[<td>selection</td>]</tr>, for example) Some items (like the <div> tag in HTML syntax mode) are already being treated as collapsible objects now, but there's no way (AFAIK) to grab such an object and move it around without carefully selecting the whole thing character-to-character. This seems like a needless restriction to me. Hope that's helpful. John

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[TextMate] My TextMate experiences

by Scott Barron

Looks like things are calming down a little so I thought I'd chime in with my TM experiences. I used it all day today for hacking on a Rails app and here are my thoughts. I've avoided putting in nits that I've seen addressed already, though it's possible I've missed seeing some, please forgive me if there are duplicates :) My editing background is that I'm a hardcore vim user and I quite dislike using the mouse while editing. Issues * Renaming a group is kind of a pain, can it default to being ready to edit when you click to make a new group? * A language nitpick, the message on the group info window ... "What did you expect to find here? ..." I dunno, seems a little unfriendly? * There seem to be some pretty annoying issues with the whole tree in the drawer collapsing without my telling it to do so. For example, have a group with folders in it, do the info on that folder to change the regex, then when the changes get applied *poof* the tree collapses. It has also collapsed at random times when I've switched back to the desktop TM was on, though I cannot consistently reproduce this, it just happens whenever. * Any way to undo more than one character at a time? This is arduous, though it may be difficult to implement without modes (ala vim). * Dragging things around in the tree seems to be more painful than it should. I'm not sure why, but I was trying to drag a folder such that it would be below (but not nested in) another folder and I couldn't get it to go. I became frustrated and deleted the reference and re-added the folder. Anybody else experience this, or is it just me? Feature Requests * Completions drawn from all open files, please? * Auto un-dent things like (in Ruby) else, end, closing braces, etc? The major issue for me is the collapsing of the tree that is going on. Other than that this thing is pretty sexy. I enjoy the organization it provides me and I look forward to the next release after this flood of feedback you have recieved from the users. I'm confident that it will be quite nice. Thanks -Scott

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[TextMate] Re: Reload in Safari and other UAs

by timothy martens

On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:24 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote: > On 6. Oct 2004, at 12:17, timothy martens wrote: > >> 1. Preview in Browsers with the ability to add/remove browsers. I >> love the built in Safari engine live preview, but can we harness >> other User Agents' rendering engines as well? > > You can open the current page in a browser using the Commands. There's > already one that assigns command-r to activate and refresh Safari. This is not working for me. When I do CMD+R ()reload in Safari) -- Safari launches/opens my default home page not the document in Textmate I'd like to preview? Does the script need to be modified? Anyone?

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[TextMate] Preview in Browsers

by timothy martens

I'm aware of the "Reload in Safari" under COmmands, but it's not loading the page I want to preview in the browser but rather my default home page? Any written a script that does this properly (i.e., launches browser and preview page)?

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[TextMate] [Request] Case-manipulation in Regexp

by Gavin Kistner

Regexp is great (yay for positive and negative look-aheads...wish there was pos/neg lookbehinds, too, even if only fixed-width). However, it's lacking a pretty important feature, IMO: character case manipulation in the replacement. I'd love a way to: * Change the first character of the saved subexpression to upper/lowercase. * Change all characters to upper/lowercase until further notice. I really lust for the folding feature of TextMate for Ruby work (and a couple other features that BBEdit lacks) but the core isn't quite there...yet :) -- (-, /\ \/ / /\/

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[TextMate] Feature Request

by Jason Wong

For show web preview, allow specification of a url, such that we can see dynamic content. Jason

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[TextMate] Re: Two small requests

by Jeff Holland

Sune Foldager wrote: > UltraEdit has an option for permanently highlighting the current line, > I don't know if that's the same as in BBEdit Yes, it's the same thing. > (maybe just a different background color in the gutter, so it doesn't > have to take up more space). I'm open to alternatives, and that sounds like a decent one to me. Kind Regards, -jeff

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[TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Tomas Jogin saying: >>>I hope ftp-support is added soon, not just being able to edit a >>>remote file, but actually being able to associate a project with an >>>ftp account. >>Is there any reason why you don't use an actual FTP application for >>this? Interarchy has some awesome features for this kind of work. >>What I do right now is this: For each Project in TextMate, I have an >>FTP Disk in Interarchy. When I open a Project, I mount the FTP Disk. >>Whenever I change something in TextMate, it's being uploaded >>automatically to the FTP server. >The reason I don't want to use an actual FTP application is that I >don't want to incessantly switch between the editor and the >ftp-application. Using FTP disks, you don't have to. Of course, it's not quite as nice as absolute automation, but it's pretty close. And it could probably be totally automated using AppleScript by having a script that opens both the Project and the Interarchy FTP disk. Once both are open, you don't have to do anything in Interarchy anymore. It will pick up on any changes you make in TextMate (or any other application) all by itself. >The interarchy feature you mention sounds pretty nice, and in fact >I'll download Interarchy right now, because it does sound sweet, but >having it integrated with the editor would be even better. By the >way, something like that isn't possible with Transmit (which I >currently use), right? No, Transmit doesn't do anything like that as far as I know. FTP disks are a unique feature of Interarchy. lucas - -- "These guys are pretty cool - even though they're sixty." -- Beavis & Butthead (about Aerosmith) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWQkQLXYdom/dB2cEQKYdACgmZYdBNb4NtRTjweCzWyYU2vsbzIAoMQ9 GXF/o6AFjsPVB9hl2qW7VSjc =S7Mp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Projected Timeline?

by jheyer

Hey, I really like TextMate's features (especially the tabs and project window). I'm just wonder if there is somewhere we can view the projected timeline for the development of this app. I have 30 days to evaluate it and I'd like to know what features will be up and coming so I can determine if it will fit my needs and wants. Thanks. -- jheyer

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[TextMate] Syntax Highlighting regex question

by James Spahr

I'm a bit confused by this from the help book: A regular expression which is used to identify the portion of text to be styled. Example: "\\<(true|false)\\>". How is this different from: "(true|false)" in other words what are the < and > doing in the regex? James.

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[TextMate] Syntax highlighting confused by "/" with strings

by Ollivier Robert

The following two screenshots shows that TM's syntax engine gets confused by / inside either heredocs or plain "" strings: <http://www.keltia.net/download/slash1.pdf> <http://www.keltia.net/download/slash2.pdf> Cheers, PS thanks to danp on #rubyonrails/freenode who found it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto(a)keltia.freenix.fr Darwin snuadh.freenix.org Kernel Version 7.5.0: Wed May 12 16:58:24 PDT 2004

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[TextMate] File Types and Icons

by Patrick Burleson

So I wanted to start associating most of my plain text files to open in TextMate and I was hit with a big "bummer". It appears that .sql is not an ending the TextMate developers had thought would be a text file and thus, I get the blank icon instead of the nice TextMate Text Document icon. Is there a way to tell the Finder that I want the TextMate icon no matter what the file extension? Thanks, Patrick P.S. I'm fairly new on the OS X platform coming from Windows for the past few years and the OS 7 and 8 before that.

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Re: [TextMate] Re: HTML, auto-complete and snippets

by Hans Petter Eikemo

So what we´d need is a dtd interpreter? Implementing bbedit cmd-m style inserting should be fairly easy to implement given two new features in the Commands implementation; 1. "TM_CURRENT_BLOCK" environment variable. (TextMate must know this already to handle folding.) and 2. "Select value from list, and insert at caret" Standard output, for commands. this way, using Commands, we can pass '<div>', '<ul id="menu">','div' or whatever from my hypothetical TM_CURRENT_BLOCK variable to an external script and make that return newline separated valid tags for that context. "Select value from list.." output would then present the result in a list, and allow you to insert your choice at the caret. This said, what i´d REALLY love would be a SketchUp style ruby API for extending the editor. (http://sketchup.com/forum/list.php?f=6) hp.

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[TextMate] Re: ftp-support

by Lucas K. Mathis

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Joost Schuttelaar saying: >>Others suggested the Interarchy application, which can make virtual >>FTP disks, and I agree that it tends to be a very good solution. Try >>it out if you need the integrated FTP! :-) >40 bucks just to mount a FTP server seems a bit much to me... Interarchy does a lot more than that. It's quite simply the best FTP client on the Mac and the only FTP client that does everything I want an FTP client to do. If you work with FTP (or SFTP or any of the other supported protocols) regularly, you owe it yourself to at least check out Interarchy. lucas - -- "Were you born worthless, or did you have to work at it?" -- R. Lee Ermey as Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP SDK 3.2.2 iQA/AwUBQWReXrXYdom/dB2cEQIArACg50l79CTpZywgttCDzZd8EHa54+wAoMsj 7n1rsWF5X8WcY5/DDDVSzKMN =nTm8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[TextMate] Anti-aliased text

by Drew McLellan

I'm using ProFont and coding in PHP (for today, at least). I'm finding the anti-aliased text unusable on a white background. It's all fuzzy and lacks definition. If I switch anti-aliasing off, any emboldened keywords become unreadable, as ProFont doesn't really support bold text. The ruby colour scheme, which uses a dark background, doesn't seem to suffer from this. Any suggestions? drew. -- drew mclellan http://allinthehead.com/ web standards project http://webstandards.org/

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