Hello everyone on the list,
I am just wondering why the text anti-aliasing in Textmate is so different from XCode: in Textmate, the characters are much bolder than in XCode. For example, I love LuxiMono. It is a great font for displaying code. It renders beautifully in XCode, but is much to thick in Textmate :(
Any way to change that (at least make it customizable)?
Otherwise Textmate is really cool.
Cheers!
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Hi all,
I've been working with too many prototype objects in javascript of
late, and as some of you may know, they are generally declared as
follows:
Sound.prototype.play = function() {
...
}
All I did was took the existing function regex, and moved a couple of
the captures:
{ name = 'meta.function.js';
match = '\b([a-zA-Z_?\.]+\w*)\s+=\s+\b(function)?\s*\((.*?)\)';
captures =
{ 1 = { name = 'entity.name.function.js'; };
2 = { name = 'storage.type.function.js'; };
3 = { name = 'variable.parameter.function.js'; };
};
},
It could probably be nicer, but pasting that in after the original
function code (in the JS language def file) will give you properly
highlighted function declarations :)
Tony Arnold
http://tonyarnold.com/
“The university was great. They gave us money and facilities,
but we didn’t have to produce anything. I’ve worked in the
private sector. You don’t know what it’s like out there. They
expect results.” -- Dr Ray Stanz, Ghostbusters
Trying to get a simple command that displays a webpage with a flash
file in it. `cat /path/to/file.html` gives me a blank screen, as does
`curl http://mydomain.com/path/to/file.html`. However, running curl to
an old url that provides a link to the page does load the movie.
Any idea what's up?
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Diretor de Desenvolvimento
ben(a)incomumdesign.com
http://www.incomumdesign.com
> "create document" -- why not? :)
Because you cant click on the lines in a new document window to have it take
you to the correct line in the file, very useful for debugging that is.
Chris Jenkins
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I keep hitting the 'Toggle Comment' command with no selection,
expecting it to work on the current line only, but it does the whole
file. I find this behavior counter-intuitive. Does anyone else? And
if so, is it possible to have it changed?
-pete
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Hi,
I just noticed a problem when creating a new file from the Project drawer.
I right clicked at the top level and created a file which appears to
be at the top level. However I just realised that it actually created
the file in the last folder I was working in.
See attached images where the file LICENSE appears to be at the
top-level but, svnX finds it under themes/moxie/templates/publish/
Regards,
Matt
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Hi all.. I've been developing a web-app using TextMate and just
recently decided to go and create a project (up to that time I've
just been browsing for the file(s) to edit directly). Anyway,
I found that once the project was created and I imported my existing
files (>100-200 of them I'd guess) and opened perhaps 4-5 of them
in the same tabbed window that bringing TextMate into the foreground
caused a ~3-5 second delay while it was doing some sort of network
activity.. What I mean by bringing TextMate into the foreground is that
I've got it displayed on the screen, and I bring Safari into the
foreground so I can test an updated page.. I then switch back to TM
to edit something.. If this switch back and forth is <5-8 seconds, then
TM seems to be fine.. Anything longer seems to cause this long delay
before I can type or change tabbed windows,etc.
Interestingly enough, I can have these same 4-5 files open without the
project paradigm and not see these same delays..
I should also tell you that my file server is a Linux box being remotely
mounted via Samba (smb://) and that I've got the metadata disabled in TM.
This is all being done via 802.11b on a 667Mhz Powerbook if that helps..
I don't recall the version of TM I'm using -- it was automatically downloaded
for me about a week or so ago. Any ideas on how to get rid of this delay
would be greatly appreciated..
-- Rick
I just came across this today: It would be handy to limit a "find in
project" search to only those files within selected folders.
Interface-wise, it would be cool if you could simply command-click
the folders or files you want to search through in the project files
pane and then choose "find in project". Perhaps the "Find in
Project" menu item could change to "Find in Files" if more than one
file is explicitly selected?
Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)
It would be really cool if TextMate could automatically pull the
latest bundles from svn in the same fashion as it now pulls builds.
I am always updating my bundles...often every day...and this would
save me some time.
>
> >>>* Are there plans to add support for the symbols popup for php?
> *>>* For me it show PHP function names.
> *>* Could it be because I am using tabs rather then spaces?
> *
> No -- if you place the caret on a function name and press ctrl-shift
> P, does it show entity.name.function as part of the scope?
>
> only when i use spaces
>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] symbols and php
> To: TextMate users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <44DC6269-3E8A-41E0-B90F-10232F21E614(a)macromates.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> On 15/11/2005, at 23.59, Samuel DeVore wrote:
>
> > Are there plans to add support for the symbols popup for php?
>
> For me it show PHP function names.
>
>
Could it be because I am using tabs rather then spaces?
Is ³Show in Separate Window² really deprecated? It seems so useful, is
something going to replace it? The HTML output option doesn¹t seem to really
come close.
Chris
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Hi list,
I have some files into a Devonthink database. Now, a devonthink
database is just a bundle with .dtbase extension. If you right click
on it and select "show package contents" you can see the internal
files, just like app bundles.
But when I try to open them from inside Devonthink, TextMate just
ignores them. I have to manually drag them on the desktop, open and
edit them and then put them back in the database.
Is there a workaround?
Thanks
Kostas
How would people feel about this diff in the C syntax bundle?
It will work on functions of the form:
int
main () {
but not on
int main()
What would be the appropriate regexp for making it work in both
cases? What I'm trying to do is get the functions to show up in the
Symbols menu.
The other thing that's broken with C is that #defines which are not
functions are incorrectly marked as functions. For instance:
#define FOOBAR 10
adds FOOBAR to the symbols menu. I think that's because the regexp
that handles #defines tries to handle the case where the #define is
really a macro
#define MIN(a,b) ((a)<(b)?(a):(b))
but applies the name even if the syntax doesn't match... I'll take a
look at this later this week if no one has a workaround...
@@ -140,6 +140,20 @@
</array>
</dict>
<dict>
+ <key>captures</key>
+ <dict>
+ <key>1</key>
+ <dict>
+ <key>name</key>
+
<string>entity.name.function.c</string>
+ </dict>
+ </dict>
+ <key>match</key>
+ <string>^([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*)\s*\(</string>
+ <key>name</key>
+ <string>source.c.function</string>
+ </dict>
+ <dict>
<key>begin</key>
<string>^\s*#\s*(define)\s+([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-
Z0-9_]*)(?:\(
((?:\s*[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\s*,?)*)\)|\b)</string>
<key>captures</key>
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pgp fingerprint: BC64 2E7A CAEF 39E1 9544 80CA F7D5 784D FB46 16C1
A few days ago the create new file button in the drawer stopped
working. Whenever I tried to create a new file, TM crashed. Then
whenever I'd go into a terminal to fiddle, I'd get some error (sorry
to so vague) about resource fork not being available.
I would force crash textmate, and killall bash, and all would work
again - but each time I tried to create a file (I sure hope it works
this time...), I had to do it all over again.
Last night I made the same error, textmate crashed, but I never got
to killing the runaway bash process. I woke up and my computer fan
was just screaming, a quick top showed a runaway bash process going
at 75% cpu and fifty others! Here's a snip:
--------------------------------
kjell 26675 74.2 0.1 27880 900 ?? R 1:09AM
430:19.31 /bin/bash -c touch "$TM_NEW_FILE"
kjell 26571 0.4 0.1 27880 980 p3 S 12:57AM 0:00.12
-bash
kjell 26606 0.0 0.1 27880 764 ?? S 1:09AM
0:00.04 /bin/bash -c touch "$TM_NEW_FILE"
kjell 26608 0.0 0.1 27880 508 ?? S 1:09AM
0:00.01 /bin/bash -c touch "$TM_NEW_FILE"
[35 more like the last two...]
--------------------------------
What could be going wrong? I'd love to have it fixed, if possible.
The problem has reared it's ugly head with both beta1.17 and r421,
and is getting to be a real pain. Anyone have an idea what's wrong?
Kjell [http://station11.net]
I just posted an FAQ question with regard to the subject line that
was (almost) instantaneously answered. Thanks to whoever was
responsible for that! :)
I'm trying to figure out how I might get TextMate to run on my new
Mac/Intel box and I've run in to some problems. I documented the
error message I received from build 731 at http://inquirylabs.com.
However, as of build 753, I now receive no error message at all. The
application crashes without a sputter.
Is there anything I can send that would help diagnose or debug this
situation? Thanks,
Duane Johnson
(canadaduane)
Hi,
Type and select the string
"£"
in an html document
Hit cmd-shift-& and choose "Convert to named entity"
expected: british pounds sterling symbol
obtained: ampersand (&)
reference: <http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-entities-961125>
<!ENTITY pound CDATA "£" -- pound sterling sign -->
<!ENTITY amp CDATA "&" -- ampersand, U0026 ISOnum -->
Not really sure anything can be done to help it if we want the
current set of features, but is you type something like this in Ruby:
<<-HTML
<style>
HTML
foo = 21
The 'foo = 21' part and the rest of the document is colored like a
style-sheet. Normally this would be incorrect nesting of course, but
for heredocs in languages, there can be good reasons for this (and
it's in fact used in tmruby).
-- Sune.
Is there any chance of being able to set a preference where the code
collapsing is not based on indentation? To be honest I'm not sure
how other applications have handled collapsing programmatically, but
basing it on indentation seems to be a bit buggy and doesn't work for
every situation.
Thanks,
Colin D. Devroe
Blog: http://theubergeeks.net/
Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/cdevroe/
I guess this is just a bug, but if you drop a (real) folder into a textmate
virtual project folder, you cannot then move it to the top level.
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wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to
tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don't do the
same for 'Time' magazine?"
-- Mark Fowler, former FCC Chairman
Allan,
Just in case you hadn¹t spotted this...
It seems as though the v731 update, which greys out commands when there isnt
a document open also greys out items under the New From Template menu
command, which presumably isnt supposed to happen.
Regards
Chris
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Hi there,
a question has occurred to me while trying to open a project from the
command line: Is there any way to open a project with mate (I can't
see any switch that does so) or do I have to use OSX's open command?
Would you consider, Allan, adding support for this? It'd avoid users
having to switch depending on the file name (file type,actually) when
invoking mate from a script
Cheers
Victor
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Two great features in the last release. I really appreciate reveal in
project and the symbol popup is great.
Thanks Allan.
M
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Matt Mower :: http://matt.blogs.it/
Hi All,
Has anyone else experienced an unresponsive find dialog?
Occasionally, when I bring up find, it will let me type in the find
entry box, but clicking on any of the UI elements does nothing.
Sometimes I can hit escape to make the dialog go away, but usually I
can't do anything to make it go away or work and have to restart
TextMate. This is common for me on both of my macs. But maybe its
something in my setup. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced
this to help track down what might be causing it. Thanks _matt
A few times I've wished this feature was present. I have huge projects with
many folders and the files can number in the thousands, sometimes with the
same names but in different folders (i.e index.php).
At times I'd like to go to the folder in the drawer that a currently opened
file is from (to open another related file for instance) but that folder
and file may exist several layers deep in another folder that is now closed.
It would be nice to have a command (either from menu or right clickable
menu) that will open the folder hierarchy to expose the folder and file
list.
Thanks,
Ed
Here's a theme I made for personal use, but I've been enjoying it so much I
thought I'd share it around. I've always been fond of dark backgrounds, but
not *that dark. I started this one as a compromise, inspired by colored
chalk on a chalkboard.
I'd love to see three new items in the Automation submenus:
Replay Macro > Replay [name of last macro selected]
Insert Snippet -> Insert [name of last snippet selected]
Run Command -> Run [name of last command selected]
It's very common for me to have tasks where I dig out some obscure
command that I rarely use, use it repeatedly in a given session, and
then forget about it.
Keyboard shortcuts make sense for tasks that are done repeatedly --
either very often, or in repetitive bursts less often. This feature
would allow many seldom-used commands of the latter type to go without
permanent keyboard shortcuts, freeing up combos for more commonly used
commands. Obviously, these new menu choices themselves would need
keyboard shortcuts.
One subtle point: by "last * selected" I mean that this would apply
only to macros/snippets/commands manually chosen from the menus
(either the regular menus or the status bar menus). That way, other
keyboard commands wouldn't needlessly get picked up by this feature;
if you have invoked a macro/snippet/command via the keyboard, you
obviously don't need this feature to remember it.
I actually got this idea from Photoshop, which allows you to invoke
the last-used filter with cmd-F.
I love TM's combination of high power and low cruft. IMO this feature
would increase usability and at the same time decrease the need for
crazy five-key-mash keyboard shortcuts on obscure bundle features.
thanks for listening,
pb
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[Kindly tell me if I should move this off-list.]
> Even if you worked for free or peanuts, you would miss the many features
> that helps you write clean and solid code (the inspections), the
> integrated JUnit integration, the code formatter, the code pointer
> sharing (ideTalk plugin), etc, etc...
I did try it for a month, but it didn't quite *click* for me. I
appreciated the code sense and such, but I ultimately had a hard time
reaching for all the other options (e.g. refactoring, etc.). It could
be that I just need more programming experience in Java to "feel" the
need for these extra tools. As such, it was heard enough for me to
stop using vim!
(Also, my first point was a bit in jest. I would spend $500 for a
superior IDE I felt comfortable using, but I simply preferred the
faster response time of within TextMate rather than the general
sluggishness that came about from IntelliJ.)
> (2) Couldn't bear what IntelliJ was doing to my PowerBook's RAM.
> I guess it depends on your project's size, but it works fine on mine,
> with 1GB and java 5.
I'm actually on a 1.25 GB PowerBook. Alain, would you mind if I write
you privately, to compare our IntelliJ configurations?
thanks,
dev
Hi List,
I applaud the symbol popup!
However I never see any symbols in it, and I have never seen anything
in the 'go to symbol' window either!
What am I doing wrong?
Howdy,
For some reason, this is only happening on my laptop .. an old g3
lombard, but anyhow, I'm using the latest build of TM.
Let me set the stage here:
I'm working on some Python stuff ...
Looking @ the bottom status bar/whatever you call, the Language is
clearly marked as Python (yay).
When I open that Language menu from down there I don't see Python in
the drop down list that opens.
If I deselect the menu w/o choosing a language, it says python.
If I switch the language from python, there's no way to switch it
back -- though if I restart TM, the file is correctly flagged as python.
It looks like the Python bundle isn't loading, or isn't being
shown .. I found this weirdness because I was trying to do a cmd-
shift-v to check my syntax and it didn't do anything ... so I went
digging for it in the Commands and noticed there is no Python bundle/
choice anywhere in the bundle editor.
I moved my /Library/App Support/TextMate/Bundles stuff out to make
sure there was no collisions ... maybe it had something to do w/ the
svn bundles .. but no, still same thing.
There are no bundles in ~/Library/App Support/TextMate/Bundles
The only bundles it's using now are the ones in
/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles
(which has the Python.tmbundle)
So I'm a bit confused as to what's going on ... my desktop doesn't
display this behavior at all.
Hmm ... the laptop is running OS X.3.9
The desktop has OSX.4.3
As a side note, this behavior seems to be isolated to Python ... when
woring w/ PHP on the lappy everything seems to be fine.
That's all the info I got.
Any insight would be helpful.
Thanks,
-steve
Hey Eric and all Java Programmers using TextMate,
/me and Brian Lalor are currently working on the Java Syntax a bit.
> The big evil Java might be the last to succumb, though. Are there
> others on this list who would like to jettison Eclipse, too? What
> can we do to improve Java editing in TM? What would be your minimum
> list of features?
Eclipse is very deticated to Java. it even comes with its own
incremental compiler so that it can highlight errors before you
manually compiled the file and can do much more than a regexp
language grammar that way, like it know about types and variables all
the time and so on.
If one knows how to work with it and needs all those nice features
like a builtin debugger, great autocompletion and documentation
lookup (I love that and certainly depend on a lot of features of
eclipse) there is no way around it.
If one is new to a language on the other hand, a nice little editor
and writing all the code from hand is a good way to learn the
language, so one learns what he is doing instead of eclipse doing it
for him.
If I find the time, I will put some effort into it (Juggling with
jobs at the moment). It would be great, if some more people would
communicate here on the list or in the irc channel on how to improve
the current situation. I know you are out there, Java guys! ;)
Soryu
I'm enjoying learning how to tweak the language bundles, and there's a
lot of good information in the help files and the wiki. There's one
small thing so far that I haven't found a good way to do. I'm playing
with adding support for heredoc-style embedded HTML in PHP document
and have added this to the PHP language syntax definition (version
2.0):
{ name = 'meta.scope.heredoc';
begin = '<<<HTML';
end = '^HTML;';
patterns = ( { include = 'text.html.basic'; } );
}
(Hopefully I haven't made too many embarassing mistakes in those four
lines. It seems to work, anyway.)
What I'd like to do is also specially color the heredoc tags, just to
make the beginning and end of each block stand out. Is there a "right
way" to do that?
A second, minor point about documentation: the wiki says "With regard
to syntaxes...there is a help page on how to define these." But the
term "syntaxes" isn't actually used in the TextMate help. That didn't
stop me from finding the help pages, but this seems like something
that would be good to clean up in the wiki for consistency's sake.
What's the canonical name for these language syntax definitions?
thanks,
pb
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Themes seem to be very popular nowadays.
Maybe we should have one big place where all the themes are stored.
There is such a place for now:
http://macromates.com/wiki/pmwiki?n=Themes.UserSubmittedThemes
As it happens, I put my own creation there, too.
So check it out, if you like it.
Soryu
Hooray, I got my license key today! :)
Are there any numbers/estimates about how many people bought or
downloaded Textmate or how many are using it, Allan?
Jonas
Hi,
I have noticed two issues being introduced in recent builds that were
not there before.
The first one was introduced in in build 715. I used to have Cmd+2
and Cmd+4 (actually Cmd+é and Cmd+' respectively since this is a
French keyboard) bound to "Set Tab Size: 2" and "4" respectively.
Using the latest build, these do not work anymore, and since there
isn't a menu item for them I can't seem to be able to re-set them (I
use APE Menu Manager for that). I tried setting them on the menu at
the bottom but it doesn't persist. Also, apparently some new
functionality has captured these key bindings.
I used to have a keyboard shortcut to fold/unfold the current block.
This only half-works anymore. It'll unfold and fold once or twice and
then stop working for that block. If I move around and do something
else, it becomes possible again. Mapping the Ctrl+F key to that
produces very strange results (this worked at some point), but using
other key combinations doesn't work either.
Neither Cmd+Shift+A nor Cmd+Shift+N to add existing files or create
new ones in the current project work anymore, even though they appear
to be bound when I right-click in the drawer.
Thanks for any help or fixes,
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Hi,
First, let me say what a HUGE fan of TM I have become. I hadn't
looked at it since the spring, and I am amazed at how usable its
become (I always saw its power).
I'm trying to do run command...| html | tidy, and all it does is
delete all text in the active window -- not sure what I'm doing wrong.
dc
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Web Specialist
Institute for Community Inclusion (http://www.communityinclusion.org/)
david.clark(a)umb.edu
(617) 287-4318
Hello--
I really love the new symbol button in the status bar. I write a lot
of JavaScript using prototype methods, however, so dozens of methods
are tucked under one main function name. It would be great if these
would show up as distinct symbols (e.g. main,
main.prototype.methodName1, main.prototype.methodName2, etc.).
TextMate just keeps getting better, thanks.
--Dylan
I'm enjoying learning how to tweak the language bundles, and there's a
lot of good information in the help files and the wiki. There's one
small thing so far that I haven't found a good way to do. I'm playing
with adding support for heredoc-style embedded HTML in PHP document
and have added this to the PHP language syntax definition (version
2.0):
{ name = 'meta.scope.heredoc';
begin = '<<<HTML';
end = '^HTML;';
patterns = ( { include = 'text.html.basic'; } );
}
(Hopefully I haven't made too many embarassing mistakes in those four
lines. It seems to work, anyway.)
What I'd like to do is also specially color the heredoc tags, just to
make the beginning and end of each block stand out. Is there a right
way to do that?
A second, minor point about documentation: the wiki says "With regard
to syntaxes...there is a help page on how to define these." But the
term "syntaxes" isn't actually used in the TextMate help. That didn't
stop me from finding the help pages, but this seems like something
that would be good to clean up in the wiki for consistency's sake.
What's the canonical name for these language syntax definitions?
thanks,
pb
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Northampton MA USA 01061-0847
http://macromates.com/wiki/pmwiki?n=Themes.UserSubmittedThemes
I took the liberty to add a UserSubmittedThemes section in the wiki.
I suppose everyone who has custom themes can add them.
I added a few of mine and an image for mac classic and Espresso Libre.
Wouldn't it be cool to have a seperate MRU list for .tmproj project
files? This way they won't get pushed off the list by other
independent small files. Older projects are more important than
files, IMO.
Jonas
Hi All,
I use TM for lots of HTML and I use the built-in tidy command all the
time. The behavior of the command changed recently and it is now
doing something that I was about to request as a feature! The old
behavior was that after the tidy command the current line was now the
very bottom of the file. The new behavior is that the current line
stays where I was editing. This is great! It was a serious pain to
have to find the line I was just on to keep working.
I just want to make sure that this was done on purpose and will stay
this way. Thanks!
BTW, I will soon be attending the Pragmatic Studio workshop on Ruby
on Rails so I hope to be soon using TM for Ruby. Slowly, but very
surely, I am switching over to TM. The big evil Java might be the
last to succumb, though. Are there others on this list who would like
to jettison Eclipse, too? What can we do to improve Java editing in
TM? What would be your minimum list of features?
-Eric
> Not really -- in principle there should be nothing wrong with having
> a normal (file) template generate a project, although I'd have to
> spot the .tmproj extension.
Allan,
That sounds like the way we'd like to go, seems like the right place in the
app for the feature to exist as well, we don't really have the skills to
delve into ObjC and write a plugin (although Im sure it cant be THAT hard),
so some form of script (perl or python) is probably the easiest way to go,
we are working on something that can ask the user for input and then copy
across a whole directory of files, what is it about the .tmproj extension
you need to change?
Regards
Chris
On 9/11/05 10:22, "textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com"
<textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com> wrote:
> Re: [TxMt] Feature request: project templates
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Hi all,
What's the official procedure for filing bug reports? There's this
mailing list, bugs(a)macromates.com, the various areas of the wiki, the
FogBugz site... what's the best way to deliver bug reports without
driving Allan to distraction?
thanks
pb
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It's just taken me a while to work out that the reason a command from
Automation > Run Command > etc...
Wasn't working because I didn't have a document open - it's been a
long day ;) . I know this may be been discussed before but how
possible would it be for the commands to be greyed out when they
can't be called? Or is there a way to exec a command from the list
when there isn't a document open that I'm missing.
Cheers,
Simon
