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by Steve Weintraub

Congrats on 1.5...TextMate is 100% my editing environment (bb what?). I just wanted to ask what the status is of implementing chunk-undo. I was really hoping to see it sooner than later, it's still the one major issue that frustrates me about TextMate.

19 years, 4 months

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Save and Close

by Graeme Mathieson

Hi, I've been trying unsuccessfully this afternoon to create something that would perform 'save' and 'close' on a file with a single keyboard shortcut (which would be apple-shift-d, same and 'send ' in Mail) for the Subversion bundle. After all, that's what my fingers seem bound to pressing when I've finished writing a svn commit message (they must know better and feel it's like I've been writing an email)... :-) But recording a macros doesn't appear to work -- save doesn't appear to be recorded as a macro action, and close appears to cause the current macro recording to be cancelled. I also had a look at using a command, which would allow me to save the file first, but I can't figure out how to tell TextMate to close the current file from there. Can it be done? Cheers, Graeme -- Mail: mathie(a)woss.name | Web: http://woss.name/ AIM: Math1e | PGP: 1024D/D72F2737

19 years, 4 months

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bin or local, and Strict html 4 template only?

by Timothy Bates

hi, some comments on the new version Comment 1 the button in textmate's terminal usage dialog tries to make an alias to the mate command in usr/bin For me this operation failed (not permitted). Question: I have an existing copy of the link in "~/local" ... Didn't textmate used to expect ~/local rather than ~/bin ? What are we going to settle on? PS: could you make this command also add whatever folder it looks for to the .bash_profile and also create ~/bin if it doesn't exist? (is it xmas or what :-) ) Comment 2: "templates" offers only strict version 4 html as a template for html? Lots of us probably don't write code which is strict v4, so that might be asking for trouble? maybe transitional as an option? Comment 3 There is no comment 3 take care, t

19 years, 4 months

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Jumping to selected symbol

by Pedro Melo

Hi, Is there a shortcut to "Jump to the symbol under the cursor"? I tried to write a macro with ^W, Cmd-E, Cmd-G but it searches the string an not the symbol. Also ^W, Cmd-E, Cmd-Shift-T... I would suggest a Cmd-Shift-T + Alt to jump to the symbol selected and then people could write that macro... Thanks, -- Pedro Melo JID: melo(a)simplicidade.org

19 years, 4 months

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Folding in C

by Daniel Vollmer

Hi all! I've been using doxygen to write documentation for a wavelet image compression codec of mine, which is written in C. There I noticed two things on folding, which are the following: /** This is the basic "pixel" type. * \Warning This should not be less than 15 bits + sign! **/ typedef short int wv_pel; Here, the end-comment marker has to have two *s, it doesn't fold with one, but if I add a third * to the open comment bit, then it still works? Another thing which I couldn't figure out is the following: if (foo > (bar >> 3)) { /* this does something nice */ foo++; } else { /* not nice */ bar++; } Here, the folding does not activate with the comment on the same line, which I actually use quite often. I am really bad with regular expressions, so I couldn't figure out what they're trying to (referring to the folding patterns). I am aware though, that I can change them myself if I were so inclined, but I just wanted to ask whether TM expects me to do the above things in different way which may be equally nice. Oh, and Allan, nice website overhaul. :) Thanks, Daniel.

19 years, 4 months

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HOWTO: Develop Flash on Mac OSX with Rake, MTASC, SWFMill and TextMate

by Benjamin Jackson

Hey all, Not sure how many people out there work with both MTASC and TextMate (more than just me I hope), but I just put this up and thought it might be of interest: http://tinyurl.com/d8syh There's a video of it in action here: http://www.unfitforprint.com/articles/2005/12/19/developing-flash-on-a- mac Let me know if you find it useful. - Ben P.S. Apologies for the cross-post :P ___________________ Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

19 years, 4 months

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Discoverability of Replace in Selection

by Allan Odgaard

One option is to use a menu button, though I'd make it slightly more awkward to perform a Replace in Selection but OTOH it would allow to (also) show the Replace All in Selection key equivalent right there in the find dialog.

19 years, 4 months

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Manual; yay!

by Andreas Wahlin

Just a little yay! for the work on the manual. I was looking for indentation rules and found it in justa few clicks in the manual. At least this time; it just worked :D Andreas

19 years, 4 months

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Protect custon icons from auto-update?

by Simon Dorfman

I like the TextMate auto-update feature except for one thing: After it updates, I have to re-install my custom icons [1]. Is there any way I could protect them from auto-update? Does it use rsync? If yes, maybe add an --exclude flag to it? [1] http://one.textdrive.com/pipermail/textmate/2004-November/001211.html

19 years, 4 months

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Am I imagining this?

by Matt Mower

For some time now i've noticed that, *occasionally*, when I do: expr.each doo|<TAB> I end up with expr.each doo | instead of expr.each do |_| | end as I would expect. I had assumed that I was somehow pressing <CR> instead of <TAB> but I just caught myself and I am 99% certain I pressed <TAB>. So it seems to me like, sometimes, the trigger doesn't fire to do the snippet. I think I've noticed it for the last few versions. Does anyone else see this? Regards, Matt -- Matt Mower :: http://matt.blogs.it/

19 years, 4 months

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screenwriters bundle

by Oliver Taylor

I've created the beginnings of a bundle for use in screenwriting and I'm looking for help to develop it further. As it stands now, TextMate is used solely for it's behavior (snippets, macros, etc.) but I hope that it's abilities can expand with your help. Specifically, I'm looking for: * Code clean-up. I've hacked together a working prototype, but I'm sure there is much redundancy and inefficiency in what I've done. * Exporting options. The ability to export to HTML and PDF (perhaps via LaTex?), so proper formatting can take place. If you are interested in helping, download the bundle at the url listed below and contact me. The objective here is to create an end- to-end solution for screenwriting that rivals FinalDraft and MMScreenwriter, and I believe we can do it. link: http://www.ollieman.net/files/bundles/screenplay.zip email: oliver at ollieman dot net There is no documentation, but to get started: "ext" and "int" are tab-triggers for slug-lines "option+tab" creates transitions "shift+tab" creates characters poke around the bundle for more behavioral abilities. P.S. Should I post this in the bundle dev list?

19 years, 4 months

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Export or Save Snippets

by Redouane Benkaddour

Hi! I have a small question, is there an option to save or export snippets? Regards, Redouane

19 years, 4 months

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Move line up/down bug?

by Chris Jenkins

I may be mistaken, but is there a bug with the move line up/down feature? Whenever I do this the line that is selected after the move is not the line that I moved, in other words if I move a line down then the line that gets selected is the line after the one that moved, so if I want to move a line up 2 lines I have to move it then move the caret up a line then move it again, is this how it it supposed to work? Or am I missing the point somehow? Many Thanks Chris ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

19 years, 4 months

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Interminable slowness with TextMate over SMB

by Andrew F

Hi, I'm new here. Just started using TextMate, and I have a problem where it is freezing for up to minutes at a time. I’ve been using it to work from home. Whereas in the office we use Microsoft Developer Studio (on Windows), that happens to be a bastard of a slug of a text editor over a Remote Desktop connection, so I have connected to my Windows file share over SMB over my VPN, and set up a TextMate ‘project’ with all my files. (I compile remotely, over the remote desktop connection, or via Ssh.) Now TextMate is a lovely editor, and it didn’t take much effort to have it syntax-highlighting C# code. Only one problem with the otherwise (almost) perfect setup: when I have the project loaded into TextMate (600-odd files), when I change focus to another application, then focus again on TextMate, TextMate hangs for at least 20 seconds. I presume that this is something to do with it checking the files, because a local project doesn't seem to have this problem. Potentially it’s some kind of network timeout (though I checked my various firewalls to see if some bits of the windows file sharing were being blocked, and that doesn’t seem to be the case). I know that SMB is a dog over a remote connection (I'm on 2Mbps ADSL, and my office is 512kbps, I think), but this is almost unworkable, especially when it decides to go slow and takes 90 seconds rather than 20 (it's somewhat unpredictable. I assume it’s dependant on network conditions). Does anybody have any ideas? Or should I report it as a bug? (Even if it is a network problem, TextMate could presumably check the files in the background, or at least provide progress feedback.) Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks, –Andrewf

19 years, 4 months

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Place front two documents side by side with applescript

by Simon Dorfman

I often need to compare two documents side by side so I wrote a little applescript that repositions the two front windows. I've attached the script in plain text format.

19 years, 4 months

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TextMate Manual

by Allan Odgaard

Just posted the following to my blog (you can post feedback here or on the blog post, if you have any): I am planning to release 1.1 final next week. While I do get many repeated requests, one of the issues that has been hard to overlook lately is the lack of thorough coherent updated documentation.  This has now changed after spending a few weeks writing more or less full-time (so that's why there has been no nightly builds, although I will likely put out one later today with a dozen minor items in the change log). Here is the first public draft of the [TextMate manual](http:// macromates.com/textmate/manual/). Don't hesitate to post feedback as comments to this entry. Currently the documentation is low on use-cases. I hope to iteratively improve this over time, as I think that when people ask for documentation they are in fact much more interested in how to combine the features of TextMate to solve the task at hand, than the core facts about how to move the caret and such. This of course is quite a challenge, as the tasks and possibilities are infinite. I myself regularly find new ways to use TextMate to improve my workflow in ways I would not have thought of just a few weeks earlier. Writing the documentation was no exception. One of the cooler things I discovered was that I could add the command below as a preferences item to the `entity.name.reference.markdown` scope to have escape suggest completion candidates from my aggregated reference list, when inside a Markdown reference (given as `[link text][REFERENCE]`). { completionCommand = 'sed -n \ "s/^\[$$TM_CURRENT_WORD[^]]*$.*/\1/p" \ "$TM_DIRECTORY/markdown.references"'; disableDefaultCompletion = 1; } Should you somehow have missed my countless references to [Markdown] (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) then for the records let me just state that the documentation was written in Markdown and I absolutely love it!

19 years, 4 months

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Applescript: Open current Finder window folder in TextMate

by Simon Dorfman

Hello everyone, I posted an applescript to make it easy to open the current finder window in TextMate. Check it out here: http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/1037 I attached a screenshot of my finder window so you can see how nicely it can be integrated into the finder. Thought this might be useful to fellow TextMate users. Cheerio, Simon

19 years, 4 months

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autosorting of language

by Timothy Bates

hi, i made a fairly complex match in a language (mx - a structural equation modeling package) The language formatter mis-sorts the capture list (sorts on the basis of first digit, not on the numeric value of the match number). Doesn't affect function, but it is a bit messy to read. Here it is after autosorting: { name = 'meta.Start.values.matrices.mx'; match = '(?i)^\s*(Start|Value)\s+(\d*\.?\d*)\s+([A-Z])\s+(\d*)?\s* ((\d+)|([^, ]+))\s+((\d+)|([^, ]+))(\s(to|-)\s+([A-Z])\s+(\d*)?\s*((\d +)|([^, ]+))\s+((\d+)|([^, \n]+)))?'; captures = { 1 = { name = 'keyword.control.start.mx'; }; 10 = { name = 'constant.mx'; }; 12 = { name = 'keyword.control.to.mx'; }; 13 = { name = 'support.other.variable.matrix.mx'; }; 14 = { name = 'constant.numeric.mx'; }; 16 = { name = 'constant.numeric.mx'; }; 17 = { name = 'constant.mx'; }; 19 = { name = 'constant.numeric.mx'; }; 2 = { name = 'constant.numeric.mx'; }; 20 = { name = 'constant.mx'; }; 3 = { name = 'support.other.variable.matrix.mx'; }; 4 = { name = 'constant.numeric.mx'; }; 6 = { name = 'constant.numeric.mx'; }; 7 = { name = 'constant.mx'; }; 9 = { name = 'constant.numeric.mx'; }; }; },

19 years, 4 months

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Regexp Incremental Search

by Benjamin Jackson

Is this possible? If not, could you put it on the roadmap, Allan? :) ___________________ Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

19 years, 4 months

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language pane not updates

by Timothy Bates

hi, just made a new bundle and dragged an existing item into it. All went well (like how the item shows where it will go), but the UI did not update well: the list was displaced left during the drag, and then it didn't redraw (all the disclosure triangles hidden). Goes away after a forced redraw by altering the pane width.

19 years, 4 months

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Change language for spelling

by Erwan David

Is there a way to change the language for the spell corrector ? Wether I write a mail in french or in english I can get a whole red underlined text. -- Erwan

19 years, 4 months

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cursor positioning off by one or two characters

by Alan McLean

When I am using the Ruby on Rails programming language, my cursor positioning always seems to be off by one or two characters. Its very strange, very frustrating! When I am editing a plain text piece, its fine, but when I am doing ROR it appears to be off ever so slightly, enough so that it doesn't quite register properly. has anyone else noticed that? --Alan

19 years, 4 months

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regexp for matching } in foldingStopMarker

by Tomas Pihl

I'm trying to match a curly bracket in a foldingStopMarker but I can't for my life get it to work. The startmarker works but not the stopmarker. Eg. works { hello } doesntwork { hello } My language is defined as: foldingStartMarker = '\{\s*$'; foldingStopMarker = '^\s*\}'; /Tomas

19 years, 4 months

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Show Invisibles

by Thomas Bohn

Hi, just a little questions about the invisible helpers to see tabs and line endings. Why does TextMate uses other marks for line endings as for example SubEthaEdit, you get use to the marks of TextMate but would really like know why at all? Second more interesting for me, where are the signs for spaces? There are absolutely no signs for spaces. Which makes it quite annoying, you have to guess how many spaces or just to try with the cursor. I hope someone can help me. To find answers for my little questions. Thomas

19 years, 4 months

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Re: Replace document with snippet?

by Benjamin Jackson

> > This would be an awesome feature. Has it been requested yet? Thanks, > > What does it actually mean? Like, for example, I want to pipe my current file through some command that would add some code at a specific point (say extract some lines to a new function), and outputs a snippet. It would be as if I ran the command with all the text selected and set the output to "replace with snippet", except this way I can still get the current word or selected text to pass as input to my command. Is that clearer? ___________________ Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

19 years, 4 months

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Editing Kid templates

by Graham Ashton

Hi. I've been trying to modify the HTML language so that it understands embedded Python code, as you find in a Kid template. For example: <?python def shoe(potato): pass ?> By default TextMate thinks it's PHP code (source.php.embedded.html). I thought it would be pretty straightforward, and copied the chunk of config that appears to setup embedded ruby. I ended up with this, defined just beneath php-source: python = { name = 'source.python.embedded.html'; begin = '(?:^\s*)<\?python(?!.*\?>)'; end = '\?>(?:\s*$\n)?'; patterns = ( { name = 'comment.line.number-sign.ruby'; match = '#.*?(?=-?%>)'; }, { include = 'source.python'; }, ); }; However, when I click "Format" and "Test" in the Bundle Editor the text in my editor is still marked up as PHP. I removed all the PHP stuff to see if it was overriding the Python settings, but it didn't help. What should I be doing for this? Cheers... -- Graham

19 years, 4 months

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[OT]: Ghostwriter

by hadley wickham

This email is a bit off topic, but I thought it might be useful to any developers who are making screencasts. I've written a little ruby script called ghostwriter which uses apple gui event scripting to produce applescript that makes it looks like you're typing. I've found it very useful when for making demo code, because unlike me, the computer never makes a typo! It's available at http://www.had.co.nz/ghostwriter/ Hadley

19 years, 4 months

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Convert selection to entity

by Christian Alexander Mueller

On some occasions I use to code html pages with Romanian special characters. Unlike with the German special characters (ä etc.) I feel better to use the standardized entities for Romanian characters in the form ă etc. In TextMate I could not find out yet how to convert a text selection with Romanian special characters typed so that only the special characters are converted to entities. In my page *every* single character is replaced by its entity and makes the text illegible. Where is the solution I missed in the manual?

19 years, 4 months

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Move Selection up/down broken?

by Martin Bialasinski

Hello, the Move Selection Line Up / Down feature does not seem to work correctly. I have A B <caret C then press cmd-ctrl-up and get B A <caret C The caret should also move up one line, so I can further move the line, no? Moving down from A <caret B C gets me B A C <caret As you can see, the caret is misplaced again. Can someone confirm this, or is it some local problem of mine? I use Textmate r847. Bye, Martin (Sorry, if this message goes through twice. I originally tried the gmane NNTP access but don't see my posting in the archive)

19 years, 4 months

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Textmate service not present in the Services menu

by Pedro Melo

Hi, sorry if this is a common question, but I searched the wiki and the ml archives a couple of months back and I could not find an answer. The TextMate service does not appear on my services menu. TextMate was installed a couple of weeks ago, and I've logged out and logged in a couple of times since then and still nothing. I'm using version Version 1.1b17 (847), and TextMate is installed inside the /Applications folder. Thanks in advance, -- Pedro Melo JID: melo(a)simplicidade.org

19 years, 4 months

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Variable Width Fonts (excuse me for inquiring:)

by David Wooten

Greetings, I've been searching for the official line on variable width fonts in TextMate but cannot find it anywhere---though I seem to remember reading it before. Is it on the to-do list at all? I understand that for most(?) TM users it is a non-issue, being programmers, but as I use TM 95% for ConTeXt/TeX paper writing, it sure would be nice. Anyway, I bring it up again because it occasionally starts to bug me, and I can't leave the editing capabilities of TM behind ;). Kind regards, David

19 years, 4 months

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Replace document with snippet?

by Benjamin Jackson

This would be an awesome feature. Has it been requested yet? Thanks, Ben ___________________ Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com ___________________ Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento +55 (21) 2256-1022 ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

19 years, 4 months

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Apple Script Bundle

by Nik Schramm

Hi all, is there a way to use TextMate for writing and compiling AppleScripts? Is there an AppleScript bundle somewhere? Thanks, Nik

19 years, 4 months

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Projects pop-up, auto upload

by Nate Beaty

I searched through the archives to see if there was some sort of functionality that would list all your TM Projects in a concise list (in either a sticky or popup window) to ease switching to different projects.. Didn't find anything (did I miss something?) and ended up putting something together with Butler that is really slick and thought I'd share. * I moved all my .tmproj files to a single folder in my Websites directory * added a container in Butler with the folder containing all my .tmproj files inside it * assigned the container a hotkey ctrl-opt-w and set it to: "Opens a menu near the mouse" I previously had all the .tmproj files inside each site's homedir, and set Butler to only show files with a .tmproj extension with 2 levels of recursion, but it was too slow. Making a dedicated tmproj folder makes this an instantaneous popup with ctrl-opt-w that shows all my TM projects, which can be opened by keyboard or mouse. (I guess this could be done with within TM with shell commands, too, in a very similar manner, but using Butler allows you to open a project from anywhere.) Also, this is buried in the wiki, but what put me over the fence on agreeing S/FTP integration in TM was unnecessary, allowed me to drop Dreamweaver from my workflow completely, and caused me to buy Transmit & TM instantly was this simple command: osascript -e 'tell app "Transmit" to open POSIX file "'"$TM_FILEPATH"'"' Set this to a command triggered with cmd-shift-u, and TM first saves the local file, then sends the file to Transmit, which will then auto- upload to the appropriate server if the file belongs to a DockSend- enabled favorite in Transmit. (Allan has this listed for Interarchy in the wiki: I just changed "Interarchy" to "Transmit".) Nate. --------------------- CLIXEL Design & Coding http://clixel.com/

19 years, 4 months

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Nested Snippets

by Gabe da Silveira

So, I know that this is already on the todo list, but I'm curious what the status of nested snippets is. I'm talking about initiating another snippet while still in the placeholder of another snippet. Then when you tab out it would return to the previous snippet(s). I'm sure a few thorny issues might come up in implementation, but the general idea is just a stack of active snippets instead of a single one. The reason I ask is because often when I create snippets I am forced to choose between something like: <p>$0</p> and <p>$1</p>$0 The first one is sometimes preferable because I can then put another snippet right in. However in general I would prefer to use the second form. With nested snippets we get the best of both worlds. TextMate already had an easy time replacing BBEdit for me, but this feature alone would probably double my HTML creation speed.

19 years, 4 months

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TextMate Keymap and RoR related snippets, second try

by André Michael Bonkowski

Here is the keymap reference. André

19 years, 4 months

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TextMate Keymap and RoR related snippets, second try

by André Michael Bonkowski

Hi again. I have to send two different postings because of the message size limit. Here is the one for RoR snippets. André André

19 years, 4 months

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Re: Screencasts

by Benjamin Jackson

> I'm intrigued. > > are the movies teensy, or are my eyes failing? I wanna see what > youre *doing* .. Yeah, the movies are teensy... 30% I think. I'll up some larger versions when I get around to re-recording them ;) ___________________ Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento +55 (21) 2256-1022 ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

19 years, 4 months

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Re: coloring different for PHP string and HTML string

by lahdyfreekindah ＠hotmail.com

with: string.quoted.double.php I was able to style my php strings separate from my HTML strings. Thanks!

19 years, 4 months

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Screencasts

by Benjamin Jackson

Hi all, Just put up a couple of different screencasts of my workflow in TxMt that might be useful: http://www.unfitforprint.com/articles/2005/12/19/developing-flash-on-a- mac http://www.unfitforprint.com/articles/2005/12/23/markdown2pdf-with- prince-xml-and-textmate Enjoy :) ___________________ Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

19 years, 4 months

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TextMate Keymap and RoR related snippets

by André Michael Bonkowski

Hi. I have created a two reference cards for the TextMates default keymap, and most of the RoR related snippets. Not much, but they have helped me... André M. Bonkowski

19 years, 4 months

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Rails' users: how did you customize TextMate

by Alain Ravet

Hi all, I wonder how the seasoned Rails developers have customized their TextMate config to better suit their work. Please share your tips. TIA Alain

19 years, 4 months

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coloring different for PHP string and HTML string

by lahdyfreekindah ＠hotmail.com

Hello, I am new to TM and was wondering if there was a way to color strings in PHP one color and strings/values in HTML a different color. Thank you

19 years, 4 months

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SQL syntax not working?

by Timothy Bates

Hi, If I set the scope of a doc to SQL and enter a select statement, I see this: In pepper (TextMate¹s spiritual parent as far as I am concerned: soooo far ahead of its time on everything except folding!), I get what I expect: Am I doing something wrong? tim

19 years, 4 months

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Latest TM version activation delays

by Gerd Knops

Hi, Since I updated from the previous to the latest TM version, any time I switch from another application to a TM window TM is unresponsive (pizza wheel) for approximately 3 seconds (time appears to depend on how many projects are open). Even if I have TM front, click any other App's window and immediately back to TM that delay is observed. Gerd

19 years, 4 months

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How to actually do a diff in TextMate?

by Michael A. Alderete

(I read the manual, did a search of the archives for "diff FileMerge" and read all hits before writing this email, and I have also tried a couple of the Diff commands in the Subversion bundle.) I am wondering if, either as part of Allan's documentation effort, or as some bundle maintainer's efforts, a simple "How to Find Differences Using TextMate" document could be written. Because I confess, I am at sea as to how to get a useful, usable diff of two similar documents. My gold standard for usable differences is (as many of the list postings discussed) BBEdit. In particular, it has a menu command, "Compare Two Front Documents", which provides a highly usable interface to locate, review, and merge/modify the differences between two open documents. FileMerge, while flawed in some important ways, also provides a reasonably useful way of interacting with two files. (The diff output of the Subversion bundle is not suitable to my group's needs.) For me, it's *critical* that a usable diff command *not* require either document to be under revision control. I am the first person in my group to be using any form of revision control more sophisticated than DreamWeaver's simple file locking. Subversion is being used only on new projects which I am in charge of, which is a very small percentage of the stuff I'm working on, so it'll be a good while before I can count on having stuff in Subversion. Perhaps this suggestion will be taken as rude (and it won't be useful for non-BBEdit converts who don't have a BBEdit license), but it would be perfectly acceptable for a TextMate differences command to simply pass along the two file references to BBEdit's command line differences program, bbdiff, if the process would allow me to resolve my differences there and have the results saved back into my open documents in TextMate. A more universal version might use FileMerge instead of bbdiff. Last, an offer: If there is an acceptable differences command already, and someone will write up a quick list of the steps to use it ala the "Compare Two Front Documents" command, I will write up a complete tutorial, complete with screenshots, etc., suitable for the complete newbie (such as myself, and my co-workers). I'm a good technical writer, by way of credentials, here are some URLs to Mac OS X documentation I've written: * PGP Desktop Manual Proxy Settings: <http://aldoblog.com/blog/493> * Getting Started with m0n0wall: <http://www.aldosoft.com/docs/m0n0wall-getting-started.html> * A whole series of articles covering audiobooks on iTunes and the iPod: <http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/> So, I'll commit to writing some quality docs for the wiki covering a differences command, if someone will point me in the direction of a differences command that is useful for my (and my co-workers') needs. Thanks! -- _____________________________________________________________ Michael A. Alderete <mailto:lists-2003@alderete.com> <http://www.alderete.com>

19 years, 4 months

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Re: [TxMt] assigning a scope to an empty line

by Oliver Taylor

> On 18/12/2005, at 2:10, Michael Sheets wrote: > > > Actually... allan will have to back me up on this but I think it's > > impossible. An empty line has nothing on it but the ending return, > > and then only if it's not the last line. Therefore there is nothing > > to actually be matched [...] > > Indeed, yes. I believe you, but it's confusing because I can match all the empty lines in a given document with "^$". Oh well. No dice.

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Bolding and antialiasing (and possibly Markdown)

by Jeffrey E. Forcier

Hey all, Thanks to Allan & co (is there really an '& co'?) for all the hard work--been using TM for about a year and still loving it :) I'm having an odd issue which I fear is actually a feature and not a bug (and I'm not even positive it's TM's fault), so to speak, but am asking anyway. Most monospaced fonts such as Monaco, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Andale Mono, &c, show up as vaguely bold when antialiasing is turned on; however I only realized this recently when messing around with Markdown and its syntax highlighting. When surrounding text with double asterisks, which as I'm sure everyone knows is Markdown for bold, the text actually gets *less bold* compared to the rest of the text! With antialiasing off, the amount of bolding is normal, e.g. stuff in double-asterisks is noticeably stronger than everything else. When using Courier or Courier New, things also look more normal (with antialiasing on *or* off). However, I hate coding with serif fonts, so just switching to Courier isn't really an option. I've looked around a bit for other fonts but so far they all display the same behavior as the bunch mentioned earlier. So. Is this something TextMate is doing, or is it at the system level? In the various terminal apps I've never had issues like this. And regardless, does anyone have any suggestions? I realize that at the end of the day it's a silly thing to complain about, but I tend to be a stickler about stuff like this; if, when writing in Markdown, my italics are italic, I'd like my bolds to be bold too =) Thanks for your time, Jeff -- Jeffrey E. Forcier Junior Developer, Research and Development Stroz Friedberg, LLC 15 Maiden Lane, 12th Floor New York, NY 10038 [main]212-981-6540 [direct]212-981-6546 http://www.strozllc.com This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No right to confidential or privileged treatment of this message is waived or lost by any error in transmission. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail or by telephone at 212.981.6540, delete the message and all copies from your system and destroy any hard copies. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient.

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Bug: All commands unavailable until window is open (even if they are commands to open a window :-) )

by Timothy Bates

Hi, the Apache commands are fantastic! Using them highlighted a little bug for me: 1. close all documents 2. go to Automation:Run Command:Apache: expect: see "Open httpd.conf" usable obtained: All commands grayed out I think the best answer is to make them all available, even if this is inappropriate, and let the command have some error checking to feedback to the user that it needs a document, if necessary. tim 我爱言论自由人权和民主 “I love freedom of speech, human rights, and democracy" I also don't like the patriot act, or DCMA

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assigning a scope to an empty line

by Oliver Taylor

I would assume that the following would assign a scope to an empty line, but it's not working. Any ideas? Is this possible? { name = 'splay.empty'; match = '^$'; },

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