- TextMate - lists.macromates.com

by Mark Young

On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:20 PM, textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com wrote: > Send textmate mailing list submissions to > textmate(a)lists.macromates.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > textmate-owner(a)lists.macromates.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of textmate digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: ODB, FTP and external editors (Allan Odgaard) > 2. Re: ODB, FTP and external editors (Allan Odgaard) > 3. Re: esc auto-complete? (Allan Odgaard) > 4. Re: Line Up/Down for Arrow Keys? (Allan Odgaard) > 5. Re: Editing a graphic in PS (Allan Odgaard) > 6. Re: ActionScript bundle (Rob Bevan) > 7. Re: pdfLaTeX, b4 (Allan Odgaard) > 8. Re: ActionScript bundle (Allan Odgaard) > 9. Re: OS X Services (Allan Odgaard) > 10. Re: TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette (Allan Odgaard) > 11. Re: TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette (Allan Odgaard) > 12. Re: pdfLaTeX, b4 (Sune Foldager) > 13. Re: Inputs in Text Window (Allan Odgaard) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:27:14 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] ODB, FTP and external editors > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <a42ddd3ea798ff41b098a4c0ea2c88dc(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:20, Eric Hsu wrote: > >> I myself am more inconvenienced by the malfunction of Services... it >> was really helping Pages be more of a text processor. But now, saving >> and closing in TM doesn't seem to send the edited text back to the >> calling program (in this case Pages), which then hangs waiting. > > Ah, hadn't realized it, but that's actually the same problem (since the > service also use the external editor API). > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:31:19 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] ODB, FTP and external editors > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <e8c128481519c172547a3e13ca95a273(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:11, Brad Miller wrote: > >> over on NetNewsWire, Brent does both private and public beta releases. >> The public one's go to version tracker etc. but the private ones are >> only available to people on the mailing list, including a link. Not >> sure how the autoupdate would adapt. I suppose you could have >> preferences like Quicksilver... > > What I probably could do was have a select few which gets the beta > before others, and they have maybe 8 hours to report problems. But most > likely that wouldn't really work, and so far the betas seems to mostly > work for the majority, and there's always the ability to downgrade (all > previous versions remain online). > > If I add another stage, like nightly builds or private betas, I should > probably instead bump the current betas to minors. Maybe then ADC news > would also carry new releases as news... > > The main reason I do betas as betas is because the features which debut > in these are unlikely to be complete. > >> I hope you can release a patch for this one since it severely limits >> my ability to get things done. > > Yes, when I get back to coding it's probably the first I'll look at. > But as Eric said, you can always downgrade. All previous versions > remain online. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:42:37 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] esc auto-complete? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <f166365d35cce20dde5f0e48fa62e416(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 18:47, Simon Gregory wrote: > >> I'm trying to add a few snippets to the Actionscript bundle to include >> some of the shortcuts that Actionscript developers would be used to >> after coding in Flash. > > Great, let me know if you want access to the repository. The current > ActionScript bundle has no maintainer (but is by Rob Bevan). > >> I've got the tab completion working fine but I'm used to pressing esc >> then the key combination to invoke an auto complete and was hoping >> that someone could tell me how to get this working. > > That's not currently possible, other than recoding a macro that does > 'tab' and bind that to the escape key. > >> If you've time then an explanation of Activation: Key Equivalent > > This is a _single_ key (with optional modifiers). > >> and Activation: Input Pattern would also be useful as I can't find any >> documentation. > > Input pattern is not working yet. What it will be is a non-greedy > regular expression matched against the typed input. Mainly useful for > having macros executed on certain editing patterns. For example the XML > bundle has a snippet that expands to: <$1></$1>. Here one could match > expansion of this snippet, giving the tag a name, pressing return > inside the tag (w/o typing anything). The macro would then add indent > and move the end tag down an extra line. > > This coupled with the upcoming scope system (which will be able to > limit the activation methods to specific language elements) will allow > for some pretty neat stuff ;) > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:46:29 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Line Up/Down for Arrow Keys? > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <e87b1e752ac3cb869dd9501c2ed46ae1(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:39, Wayne Larsen wrote: > >> I love the new file chooser, however, is it possible for textmate to >> allow line up or line down to be used in place of the arrow keys for >> list navigation? [...] > > I'll look into it -- it should use the standard key bindings, but > unfortunately the way I currently pull off the thing about moving the > selection in the inactive table view while the search string has focus, > doesn't play well with the normal event system :/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:47:33 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Editing a graphic in PS > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <7a34871ca7b41e2ec21d363468d09c24(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 0:58, Eric Curtis wrote: > >> I thought it was pulling the name and that Finder was what would open >> it, which it did in a way. Might I suggest changing it to: >> >> Open file with Default App > > I took the title from Xcode. But I'll check if Launch Services could > give me the name of the application that will actually open the file. > That would be very nice. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:52:53 +0000 > From: Rob Bevan <robbevan(a)xpt.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] ActionScript bundle > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <9FB84FB2-749B-11D9-92D9-00039396DAC0(a)xpt.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > On 1 Feb 2005, at 21:42, Allan Odgaard wrote: > >> Great, let me know if you want access to the repository. The current >> ActionScript bundle has no maintainer (but is by Rob Bevan). > > Hi Allan, > > Sorry, I've been meaning to pick this up again. I have a few snippets > and commands to add to the bundle. If you let me have access I'll do > this soon (and maybe coordinate with Simon). > > Cheers, > Rob > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:55:17 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] pdfLaTeX, b4 > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <1059af41f19e5501c1ebdeee8a7aba5f(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:01, Robert Ullrey wrote: > >> Quick question though. Now I would like to use XeLateX as my >> typesetting engine so I can change fonts through fontspec. How can I >> change the bundle command in PDF LateX to use XeLateX ($xelatex >> [file] in the terminal)? > > Select Automation -> Run Command -> Edit Commands > > > Here you'll find LaTeX / PDF LaTeX which is the current command. > Duplicate it and make your changes. It's a lot of lines, but the > essense is the pdflatex which output is piped into perl, that makes the > errors HTML anchors. > > Ask if there's anything. > >> P.S., It would also be nice to be able to use ConTeXt ($texexec) > > It shouldn't be a problem to modify the command to use ConTeXt instead. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:58:32 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] ActionScript bundle > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <9bb570ab93548d471c013278eeae51eb(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:52, Rob Bevan wrote: > >> Sorry, I've been meaning to pick this up again. I have a few snippets >> and commands to add to the bundle. If you let me have access I'll do >> this soon (and maybe coordinate with Simon). > > Done! > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:00:29 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] OS X Services > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <5d65196ad5d6f66a0020658d8bfb25e8(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:12, Eric Curtis wrote: > >> Perhaps I am doing something wrong put when I highlight a chunk of >> text and execute the service nothing happens... > > This must be the missing ODB editor support in beta 4. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:01:58 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <7d1ba8bbc17e9e74091500a4cec84643(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Feb 1, 2005, at 20:51, Chris Messina wrote: > >> I would also like to be able to drag n' drop a snippet onto a >> selection and have the snippet wrap around my selection. > > Ehm... how? Shouldn't the snippet then somehow specify where the > selection should go, and if so, would this be any different than what > you currently can do, other than the way you activate it? > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:07:11 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <6e556256733582045ea04f6677a1489b(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Jan 31, 2005, at 16:05, Jon Raphaelson wrote: > >> Actually, some sort of floating palette with all of the current >> languages stuff (commands, snippets, macros) would be handy. > > Okay -- but I'd prefer not to spend any time on this before after 1.1. > And I'm btw changing my plans a little, so 1.1 will be in a few weeks, > and I'll just do 5-10 1.1.x releases instead of having 1.1 in beta for > half a year ;) > > Hopefully no-one feels cheated that some of the stuff I've promised for > 1.1 then will be 1.1.x instead. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 12 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:18:27 +0100 > From: Sune Foldager <cryo(a)cyanite.org> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] pdfLaTeX, b4 > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <43fca7a105bc5f45bf2a1ad1fcfc428c(a)cyanite.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On 1. feb 2005, at 14:35, Brad Miller wrote: > >> The latest unstable version of tetex from the fink archive appears to >> be several versions out of date [...]. > > Yes, in fact the teTeX package doesn't have the newest Web2C TeX > version at all no matter what distro you pick. The i-Installer one is a > mixture of teTeX (for the foundation) and a binary distro called > TeX-live for the programs (tex, pdftex, dvips etc.). teTeX is the most > popular package for *nix as far as I am aware, so it's rather odd that > it's behind like this. And too bad. But at least it can be worked > around on the mac. > > -- > Sune. > :: the Cottage of Lost Play. > :: http://cyanite.org > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 13 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:17:51 +0100 > From: Allan Odgaard <allan(a)macromates.com> > Subject: Re: [TxMt] Inputs in Text Window > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Message-ID: <03fac328adafa26e4d9eb5f52aa2b3c3(a)macromates.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Jan 27, 2005, at 17:26, Mr. Robert Ullrey wrote: > >> [...] I am still frustrated with changing inputs (e.g., greek) as well >> as not being able to use input engines like "Spell Checker". Ant >> estimate on this bug fix? > > Well, the best I can do is say that in half a year, I expect 90% of the > things reported since release should have been taken care of ;) > > I know it's not of much help, but the more exact estimate I give, the > more chance there is that it won't be correct. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > textmate mailing list > textmate(a)lists.macromates.com > http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate > > > End of textmate Digest, Vol 5, Issue 6 > ************************************** > > -- Mark Young Virtual Design House, Inc. 231 South Bemiston, Suite 100 Clayton, MO 63105 Phone: 314-482-3377 E-Mail: mark.young(a)vdhinc.com

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Re: textmate Digest, Vol 5, Issue 10

by Tobias Buckell

> Oh, I just realized that Ulysses has a fullscreen mode...you can tell > how much I've used it. :-) TB: Ulysses does. However, Ulysses requires me to hop through some really weird activation loops to potentially buy it, and just to test it. It also just looks awful in interface, and the method of opening documents and project management is awkward. I think Textmate is a better handler of all the various things I do, html, php/mysql/movabletype, articles, novels, todo lists, etc. Textmate is also *snappy* when I use it, the documents load up *like that* when I double click them. I like that! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ By day I'm a mild-mannered tech worker, by night, a Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. You can find out more about my fiction at my website at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com where you can read my weblog, join my newsletter, find excerpts or free fiction, and find out where you can buy my fiction... Coming Soon: -novel "Crystal Rain" from Tor Books (2006) -novel "Ragamuffin" from Tor Books (TBA) You can find my short stories in these anthologies out now or coming soon: -Anakoinosis - I Alien (April 2005) -Necahual - So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial SF&F (Oct. 2004) -Aerophilia - All Star Zeppelin Stories (Sep. 2004) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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rave

by Tobias Buckell

I'm truly and deeply impressed with this program. I'm working on my second novel, due to be turned in this September and am about 15,000 words into it. Previously I used TextEdit to create each chapter, used omnioutliner to manage the chapter structure and create the outline and do rearranging, and then merged all the files into Word to finish it up, and then had to edit it. I started the current novel using that system, then switched to a program called 'copywrite' which is cool, gave me some of the organization features combined with a basic text editor, but it's a bit slow when I click around quickly, and I hate having the program get in the way of my creative process/writing, which is why I started testing programs tonight to see if I could find something better. That and now that I've seen this program's project handling I'm deeply in love. But there is just one thing I was hoping I could include on a feature request to spur me on. Full screen editing! The reason I purchased a copy of copywrite is that they said full screen editing would be coming, which is where I press a button and the program takes over the screen and I have nothing but text and a screen. This is the greatest procrastination breaker, and the only program besides copywrite that looks to have this feature is MacJournal. Right now I'm seriously considering drafting in MacJournal, then copy and pasting into Textmate, but man, I'd pay extra for the full screen feature, it's worth it. Secondly, I've only played with this program for a few minutes, but I may be converting my Getting Things Done 'Next Actions' list to it and using documents to go to sync the plain folder text files for project management. Best, Tobias Buckell +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ By day I'm a mild-mannered tech worker, by night, a Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. You can find out more about my fiction at my website at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com where you can read my weblog, join my newsletter, find excerpts or free fiction, and find out where you can buy my fiction... Coming Soon: -novel "Crystal Rain" from Tor Books (2006) -novel "Ragamuffin" from Tor Books (TBA) You can find my short stories in these anthologies out now or coming soon: -Anakoinosis - I Alien (April 2005) -Necahual - So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial SF&F (Oct. 2004) -Aerophilia - All Star Zeppelin Stories (Sep. 2004) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Re: [TxMt] ActionScript bundle

by Simon Gregory

>> I have a few snippets >> and commands to add to the bundle. If you let me have access I'll do >> this soon (and maybe coordinate with Simon). > > Done! I've completed all the usual key combo snippets found in flash and sent them through to Rob. Along with a quick class template. Allan - thanks for the explanations of Activation: Key Equivalent and Activation: Input Pattern, I'm looking forward to seeing the input pattern in action. cheers, Simon

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TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette

by Chris Messina

I realized after seeing a HyperEdit screenshot that having a floating snippets palette would be immensely useful in TextMate. I've mocked up how I might think you could implement this, focusing the selected snippets on the current editing mode... In any case, I don't think that snippets belong in a hierarchical menu, and as much as I would like for you to be able to stick to minimal modal interfaces, I think that in this case, it's worth adding one more. Chris -- Do the evolution. Get Firefox! <http://spreadfirefox.com/community/?q=affiliates&id=5&t=4> Quote of the moment: /"Simplicity is in taking the elegant path. It is also a conscious choice-- to achieve simplicity one must eschew complexity. Simple things must be simple."/ -- author unknown

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Small Rename bug

by Fred B.

While creating a new file in TM, I accidently typed a capital letter. After, it was impossible to change it with "rename" (error beep). I guess it's because it's the same name, only with different capitalization... -- Fred

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GREP Weirdness

by Ben Jackson

Hi all, Pleased to join the list. I'm excited about the potential of this software. So GREP is acting up... when I search ^\s*(?:\w+ +?)+.+$ TextMate crashes without warning. This string works fine in TextWrangler/BBEdit. Some other strings have behaved unexpectedly. Is this a known issue? Also, the program crashes if there are errors in the GREP syntax. Without highlighting, these are not easy to avoid (maybe one for B5). -- Ben Jackson Diretor de Desenvolvimento INCOMUM Design & Conceito +55 (21) 9127-2819 ben(a)incomumdesign.com http://www.incomumdesign.com

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pdfLaTeX, b4

by Sune Foldager

So what's the deal with the -halt-on-error flag shipped from TM to pdfLaTeX? My pdflatex (pdfTeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159-1.10b; from the teTeX package) doesn't dig that flag at least. -- Sune. :: the Cottage of Lost Play. :: http://cyanite.org

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Making pretty pdf's with LaTeX

by Sune Foldager

Now that it seems we all need to use the i-Installer TeX distro in order to play nicely with TextMate, I'd like to recomend people to install the TeX CM-Super package also found with i-Installer. This basically makes pdflatex (and dvips etc.) store Type-1 fonts in the created pdf's and ps's, instead of on-demand created bitmap fonts from metafont sources (which is default). True those bitmap fonts are usually high-DPI (sometimes 600), but a) Most viewers on X11 _hate_ bitmap fonts, and display a crappy result even for 600dpi fonts. b) When you zoom, you see the edges starting to show. c) Vektor fonts are _always_ preferable IMO, and might even take up less space :-). Just install the package and it will be used automatically. Note: It's a rather big download. -- Sune. :: the Cottage of Lost Play. :: http://cyanite.org

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no-frills svn status for b4

by Chris Thomas

WorkingDir=`pwd` export WorkingDir echo 'Subversion status' echo '<p>' echo '<tt>' echo $WorkingDir echo '<p>' svn status | \ perl -pe 's/(.*?)(\s+)(.*)\n/<b>$1<\/b> <a href="txmt:\/\/open?url=file:\/\/$ENV{'WorkingDir'}\/$3">$3<\/a><br>/' Show as HTML.

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Inputs in Text Window

by Mr. Robert Ullrey

A while back, early December I think, I read that there was going to be work on allowing TextMate to 'preview' text being givin to it by the system. I am still frustrated with changing inputs (e.g., greek) as well as not being able to use input engines like "Spell Checker". Ant estimate on this bug fix? Thanks Robert

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Line Up/Down for Arrow Keys?

by Wayne Larsen

I love the new file chooser, however, is it possible for textmate to allow line up or line down to be used in place of the arrow keys for list navigation? I'd love to do "Cmd-T Search String C-n C-n". If I'm going to move my hand off to the arrow keys, I might as well just move it a little further and use the mouse... If this is already possible, please enlighten me! Thanks, Wayne

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esc auto-complete?

by Simon Gregory

I'm trying to add a few snippets to the Actionscript bundle to include some of the shortcuts that Actionscript developers would be used to after coding in Flash. I've got the tab completion working fine but I'm used to pressing esc then the key combination to invoke an auto complete and was hoping that someone could tell me how to get this working. If you've time then an explanation of Activation: Key Equivalent and Activation: Input Pattern would also be useful as I can't find any documentation. Thanks, Simon

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Editing a graphic in PS

by Eric Curtis

I was noticing that if I right click in the project drawer a file will give me an option to reveal or open in the finder. Is there a way to add to this list so that I can open in photoshop? Another thing I would most likely do is add a reveal in pathfinder as I do not use the finder much. Thanks, Eric

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ODB, FTP and external editors

by James Adam

I just downloaded the new version of Cyberduck, and it looks like TextMate isn't prompting the ftp application to reupload the file after saving. I've tried this in Fugu and seen the same behaviour. SubEthaEdit works, so the issue would seem to like with TM. I thought we had ODB support in this editor?

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Suggestion: Folding behavior modification

by Eric Curtis

I was recently working with folding and noticed a dangerous behavior that I would like see changed if possible. I was working on an html document with the setup something like: <div id="section_1">... (dangerous place to backspace) <div id="section_2">... (dangerous place to backspace) <div id="section_3">... (dangerous place to backspace) What I noticed was if your cursor was on one of the lines that I labeled (dangerous place to backspace) above and you backspaced it would delete the entire folded content. What is especially troublesome is that the only indication that it happened is the little ... graphic disappears. The behavior I would like to suggest is that if you backspace in one of the above situations the fold opens automatically and one character is deleted. This way if I really did want to delete it all I can select it and do so otherwise I am given a clear indication of what happened. Sincerely, Eric Curtis

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TextMate Command as an independent process?

by kumar mcmillan

Hi. [file under feature request] not sure if this would be possible ... could a Command process run independently of TextMate? For example, On Mondays the backup runs on our dev server which slows down rsync from my workstation. I have rsync mapped to a command to send changes to the dev server. When rsync runs slow, all of TextMate hangs until the rsync process is complete. It would be nice though if I could continue working while it rsynced my project files. I obviously haven't thought about this too hard because what if the command is set to replace text or something. hmm... well thought I would put it out there anyway in case there is a way to do it. k

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Feature suggestion: Open file as edit vs. browse

by Anders Isaksson

Hi all, I have been using TextMate since December last year and I have found myself using it like more and more as some sort of Finder replacement. At least for text-files that I can open and edit in TextMate. As TextMate is my primary programming environment where I edit source code, ini-files, etc, I have a problem when I open a file for "browsing". I mean when I open a file with no intention to edit it but to read it, copy code sections, check how certain functions are implemented, etc. The problem, or let me say the inconvenience, is that the file remains open as a tab and I have to manually close it. I could think of two ways to open a file: 1 - For editing, 2 - For browsing. When a file has been opened for editing TextMate would have the same behaviour as today. When a file has been opened for browsing I could think of a behaviour that close the file as soon as I leave it. For now I have no idea on how to select between open edit vs. open browse but one way could be to use a combination of ctrl, alt or command key to open browse. Kind Regards /Anders I -- Anders Isaksson - anders(a)isazone.com Vänersborg, Sweden www.isazone.com - www.stugmarknad.se

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Move Selection

by Tim Martens

Is it possible to move selection "word left/right" as opposed to just "column left/right" and "line up/down?" This is something I do often.

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Append to Each Line question

by Fred B.

Hi, I just had the chance to try "Append to each line of Selection" and I'm wondering if it would be possible to be able to "backspace" the end of all lines or even moving the cursor and append to each line at that position. This would make this feature much more useful when: -You have to remove a closing tag before adding stuff -You want to add stuff before the closing tab. -You want to replace the closing tag -etc. Which is pretty often for me. Maybe this would be more complicated to implement, I don't know, but this would be one more killer feature in TM for sure. It's good to know you've bet on the good horse. ;)

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LaTeX syntax enhancements.

by Brad Miller

In an effort to avoid actual writing this afternoon, I decided to add some enhancements to the LaTeX syntax bundle. Here's what I've done: \textbf{foobar} -> highlights with textbf as the usual maroonish/purplish command color but foobar is bolded in black \textit{foobar} -> sames as above but foobar is italicized in black \texttt{foobar} -> same as above but in a teletype font, ha, no really, its underlined. Added highlighting for strings like: `foo' and ``foo'' These are colored in the same green as math. I find this one really helpful as it also points out when I've forgotten to use the proper pairing of quotes. I thought about highlighting "foo" in red to really remind me that its wrong. Added $ to the list of smart typing pairs. I don't know about the rest of you but 99% of the time when I type a $ in LaTeX its to do math. I also brightened up that maroonish purplish color just slightly since it seemed a bit dim to me. Since these changes seem generally useful and non-controversial (except maybe the color change). I'd be happy to contribute these to the subversion repository if Alan would grant me an account. However, since there are already at least three people in the history file I thought I would post my ideas for further discussion. Any requests? Brad -- Brad Miller, PhD Assistant Professor Luther College http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller jabber: bnmnetp(a)jabber.org

20 years, 3 months

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Bundle distribution principle?

by David Wooten

Greetings all, Just thinking a little about the bundle-inclusion-principle. There's some pretty strong evidence that Allan is a fan of Quicksilver, and it brought to mind the idea that the TMer could download only those bundles (s)he would use. In my case, pretty much exclusively LaTeX. I would guess that, unlike Quicksilver plugins (?), the extra bundles don't have an effect on performance per se, but there is a certain pleasure in being parsimonious. ;) D. Wooten

20 years, 3 months

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Popup instead of ESC-cycle

by Emil Eriksson

>> I'd also like to see a popup displaying the various auto-completion >> options instead of the ESC-cycle solution. > > I've added it as a request. > Oooh, I've had wet dreams about a popup instead of the current behaviour. A slight exaggeration, but count this as my +1. // Emil Eriksson

20 years, 3 months

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Syntax Highlighting Selection & Command Output Window

by Chu

Some basic things I couldn't figure out: -Is it possible to assign key shortcuts to "Syntax Highlight As" menu for different languages. Right now I launch TextMate & use it for writing quick scripts in the default New Document window which has no syntax highlighting and it is a pain to go to the menu and select the language. -Going with the previous point, can we set the default Syntax Highlight language for the New Document. -What's up with the Command Output Window. It has a huge empty White block on top & dragging the resize bar brings an empty grey block at the bottom. Unless I am missing something, it sure can use some redesign & have features like multiple buffers for each script/selection run but in an elegant configurable way and/or optional output appending in the same window with a divider etc.

20 years, 3 months

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Auto-Refresh the project drawer

by Christian Schwanke

Hi, it seems to me, that the project drawer does not allow automatic or manuel refreshment. This is quite a drawback to my mind. I think it would be great to have a manual refresh-button/command. It would be even greater to have some kind of automatic refresh every x seconds/minutes. Regards. Christian

20 years, 3 months

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Better Python bundle?

by Russell E. Owen

Anyone got a bundle for python that works better? The built in one uses bizarre colors, the folding support doesn't work properly (and, less importantly, the nifty automatic quote closing doesn't handle """ and ''' quoted strings). I looked at the wiki, but didn't see anything for python. Any hints on improving python support would be appreciated. Regards, -- Russell

20 years, 3 months

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no-frills ctags

by Chris Thomas

I got curious. Here's no-frills (and no-warranty) ctags lookup suitable for use with the TM command editor. Select the identifier you're looking for and run this command to find it. Tested with the output from the ancient ctags command installed with Mac OS X. It doesn't support any 'ex' commands except pattern matching. It probably does not work with the extended ctags format, but it would be trivial to make the necessary modifications. There is one problem, however: either my URI syntax is wrong or TextMate's 'txmt://' handler doesn't seem to be handling the 'line' parameter. It would be nice to be able to access this command from the contextual menu. ruby <<END search_string = ENV['TM_SELECTED_TEXT'] exit if search_string == "" # find the tags file in the folder containing the active file tagfile_path = File.dirname(ENV['TM_FILEPATH']) + "/tags" tags = File.open(tagfile_path, "r").read tagarray = tags.scan( /(#{search_string})\t(.*?)\t\\/\\^(.*)\\\$\\/\n/ ) linearray = tagarray.collect do |t| puts t.join("\t") identifier = t[2] path = t[1] sourcefile = File.open(path, "r") while( sourcefile.gets ) break if \$_ =~ Regexp.new(Regexp.escape(identifier)) end sourcefile.lineno end tagarray.each_with_index do |t, index| puts "#{t[1]}:#{linearray[index]} #{\$_}" command = %Q{open txmt://open?url=file://#{File.expand_path(t[1])}&line=#{linearray [index]}} puts command system(command) end END

20 years, 3 months

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Feature Req: Big text areas in Find&Replace

by Duarte Carrilho da Graça

Hello ATM, in the find & replace dialogs (both for the signle file and project-wide), there are single line areas to type the text, even tho you can paste multiple lines there, its difficult to scroll through them. I think it'd be really good to have a box with a few lines (i.e assume the multi-line capability) Regards Duarte Carrilho da Graça

20 years, 3 months

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Re: [TxMt] Auto-Refresh the project drawer

by Christian Schwanke

>> it seems to me, that the project drawer does not allow automatic or >> manuel refreshment. [...] > It refreshes if you deactivate and activate TextMate. A gesture I think > I read somewhere that users have come to expect from many programs. Alright, I missed that feature :-) But anyway, I still think, that a preference for automatic refreshs would be a nice-to-have feature. And since the auto-refresh capablity is already there, it shouldn't be too difficult to do. regards, christian

20 years, 3 months

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How to open Textmate from external program with specific caret position?

by Joachim Mårtensson

I have been writing a little app that lists text files. When I double click the NSTableView containing the file name I want it to open in TextMate, place the caret on a specific line and scroll down to that line, just like for example xcode does when double clicking in the error list. Is there some way to accomplish this (preferably from Cocoa)? I don`t have any problems opening the file in TextMate. Its the caret positioning that is getting to me. Joachim

20 years, 3 months

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horizontal scroll

by eoghan

Hi Can you turn on/off horizontal scrolling? At the moment, my lines wrap to the next line. I know its indicated that its the same line, but id prefer it to scroll, if possible? Thanks Eoghan

20 years, 3 months

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Column Typing

by Eric Curtis

Ok, I looked around the website, in the help files and in the menus and I can not figure out how to turn on and off column typing... Asking the dumb question, Eric

20 years, 3 months

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comparable windows editor?

by Justin French

I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him). In particular, I think he needs the project drawer, because there's a heap of files to work with in Rails, and something that has a PHP & Ruby syntax highlighter included. Sorry for being a little OT, but surely some of you must be recovering Windows types and can recommend something??? I haven't touched a PC in years :) --- Justin French, Indent.com.au justin.french(a)indent.com.au Web Application Development & Graphic Design

20 years, 3 months

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key command to switch between edit and project-file-list pane

by kumar mcmillan

Hi. I just read the latest news on the TextMate site about a "quick launch" thingie for selecting a project file [ http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2005/01/28/elevating-the-standard/ ] I haven't tested this out in the beta but I think this is a great idea. However, I have a much simpler request that is related to navigating around TextMate mouse-free. How about a key command to switch focus from the editor pane to the project-file-list pane. This is about the only thing left that I have to touch the mouse for when editing! Currently I manually click on a file in the project-file-list pane, use the arrows to find another one, then press enter to open it for editing (unless I'm in the mood for mousing). now... if there was a way to jump back to the file-list pane via key-command while editing that would be great. Of course, the quick launch will be helpful but the above request seems like an easy feature to add, no? Net News Wire Lite, which has the same drawer-content window layout, allows for movement between these panes via left/right arrows ... making RSS reading completely mouse free. Emacs users will love you for it Allan :) thx, K

20 years, 3 months

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Problem with perl snippet (bundle or Textmate?)

by Gregg Thomason

I want a perl snippet that does this: open($1, "$2") or die "Can't open file: $!\n"; while(<$3>) { $4 } I enter this into the snippet editor. What happens is: 1. The "entry point" is always $2. (in other words, type 'openTAB', get the snippet, but the insertion point is at $2) 2. hitting TAB after entering some text moves the insertion to $1, but any attempts to hit tab to move to the while ($3) fail; it just inserts a literal TAB. 3. escaping the $! with something like \$! has no effect; it always inserts '!n'. I even tried \\n and variations thereof with $! to no effect. I'm not sure if this is a side effect of the Perl syntax rules/bundle (using the stock one, I long since abandoned mine in favor of the other, superior one :) or another weirdness. As a side note, I want $1 and $3 to be the same thing; is it enough to just call 'em both $1?

20 years, 3 months

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Bookmarks

by Tim Martens

Do Bookmarks not persist between sessions? I just spent an hour setting up bookmarks in a markdown syntax template, thinking I'd be able to open the document in the future and F2 (Next Bookmark) through the doc to make changes. It seems bookmarks are not permanent. Why not? Is there plans to make them so? -t

20 years, 3 months

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Tip: Append LF's to lines in selection

by Allan Odgaard

Just a little tip, the Append to Lines in Selection can also have new-lines appended, so e.g. we can select: case NSHomeFunctionKey case NSEndFunctionKey case NSPageUpFunctionKey case NSPageDownFunctionKey Append to lines in selection and type: “:<LF>break;” to get: case NSHomeFunctionKey: break; case NSEndFunctionKey: break; case NSPageUpFunctionKey: break; case NSPageDownFunctionKey: break; Or select: if([nonBase characterIsMember:ch]) else if([upcase characterIsMember:ch]) else if([alnum characterIsMember:ch]) And type: “<LF>{<LF>” to get: if([nonBase characterIsMember:ch]) { } else if([upcase characterIsMember:ch]) { } else if([alnum characterIsMember:ch]) { }

20 years, 3 months

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Paging a Bundle expert... (modifying SQL syntax colors debug)

by Paul Nordstrom August

hi everyone the bad news is that the latest beta (or how I installed it) ended up deleting all my previous Custom snippets, macros etc. The good news I guess is that I'm re-doing them (not so many anyway) in a much better way :) Separately I wanted to adapt the default SQL to colorize some of the COLLATE and CHARSET data, partly just as a tutorial. My CocoaMySQL creates table definitions including the following (unfortunately with the "`" included), e.g.: > `user` varchar(20) collate utf8_bin default NULL, > [...] > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin I wanted to offset the collate and CHARSET content so I cut-and-paste within the SQL bundle to create the following: > <dict> > <key>foregroundColor</key> > <string>#ff3300</string> > <key>match</key> > > <string>^\s*\w+\s+(collate|utf8_bin|DEFAULT|CHARSET|utf8|COLLATE)\s*</ > string> > <key>name</key> > <string>Charset Types</string> > </dict> Alas nothing happens ;) Could anyone give me a hand? This is hardly urgent, but I am just curious what I am doing wrong... FYI I based it on the following; I'm hardly a regex expert or anything but I thought I knew what was going on... Thanks! Paul > <dict> > <key>foregroundColor[1]</key> > <string>#CCBA33</string> > <key>match</key> > > <string>^\s*\w+\s+(bigint|bigserial|bit|bit\svarying$\d+$|boolean|box > |bytea|character\s(varying)? > $\d+$|char$\d+$|var\schar$\d+$|cidr|circle|date|datetime|double\s > precision|inet|int$\d+$|integer|interval$\d+$|line|lseg|macaddr|mon > ey|numeric($\d+,\d+$)? > |oid|path|point|polygon|real|smallint|serial|text|times($\d+$)(\swith > outstimeszone)?|timestamp(s($\d+$)(\swithoutstimeszone)?)? > |varchar$\d+$)\s*</string> > <key>name</key> > <string>Data Types</string> > </dict>

20 years, 3 months

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How to specify a Scope for a snippet

by Christian Schwanke

Hi, I've defined a sinppet that automatically expands the " character to "`"' used for quotation in latex. However, I want this behaviour only to work, when editing a *.tex-file. In the bundle-editor, there is a field named Scope and I suppose that's the one I need - However, I don't know what exactly to specify there. Any hints are gladly appriciated, Regards, Christian

20 years, 3 months

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Adding System Folders to Project Without Drag And Drop

by Patrick Burleson

I'm hoping I've just overlooked something to be able to do this: Instead of having to drag a folder from the Finder on the project drawer to add a live updating folder, it would be nice to be able to add them with a folder chooser much like "Add Existing Files..." . Also, I can't seem to reorder folders inside a group. Whereas I can reorder groups. Is this a current limitation? Thanks, Patrick P.S. Love the file chooser in the latest beta. It's like being in IDEA, except for my rails development. :-)

20 years, 3 months

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Re: textmate Digest, Vol 4, Issue 59

by Michael Gregoire

AS a long time windows and mac user, prior to OS X and TextMate, my environment for coding PHP and HTML was HTML-Kit which is the most extensible and light environment there is for PC...and it features a project panel much like the project drawer.... it is also quite easy to develop additional plugins for it if there isn't already a syntax plugin for Rails. It cames with a plug-in editor which is quite easy to figure out. Oh, and it's also Free. http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ > From: Justin French <justin.french(a)indent.com.au> > Date: January 27, 2005 10:23:20 PM EST > To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > Subject: [TxMt] comparable windows editor? > Reply-To: TM Users <textmate(a)lists.macromates.com> > > > I've got a part-timer about to start work with me on a Windows machine > on some Rails stuff, and I need to recommend a free or cheap text > editor for him to get started on (until I buy a macmini for him). > > In particular, I think he needs the project drawer, because there's a > heap of files to work with in Rails, and something that has a PHP & > Ruby syntax highlighter included. > > Sorry for being a little OT, but surely some of you must be recovering > Windows types and can recommend something??? I haven't touched a PC > in years :) >

20 years, 3 months

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ruby not found error

by David Casal

Hello all, Stupid question here...I have: ruby /Users/dc/Documents/txt/scripts/todo2log.rb $TM_FILEPATH as a command, but it has suddenly stopped working, saying: /bin/bash: line 1: ruby: command not found the script: #!/usr/local/bin/ruby task_text = $stdin.read task_text.gsub!("\\[ \\] ","[X] ") from = File.basename(ARGV[0],".txt") File.open("/Users/dc/Documents/txt/LOGS/ completed.txt",'a'){|archive_file| archive_file.puts archive_file.puts task_text archive_file.puts " in #{from} #{`date \"+%H:%M %Y%m%d %a\"`}" } ruby is to be found there (/usr/local/bin), and it worked yesterday, so I can't tell at all why this is happening... but I know I'm missing something obvious hints? d

20 years, 3 months

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Re: [TxMt] Autocomplete from syntax file?

by Chris Jenkins

On 27/1/05 2:48 pm, "textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com" <textmate-request(a)lists.macromates.com> wrote: > There are plans, yes... ;) Ooh secretive.. Go on, tell us...

20 years, 3 months

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"Save As" bug?

by Vaska.Txt

I'm very new to the group and TextMate so I hope that this has not already been hashed out. I'm having a problem when I "Save As" with an open document. What happens is the original document disappears from the project list. The new document takes its place. I have to reboot the app to get it to refresh properly so I see both the new document and the original document in the list. For now, I can work around this (by simply creating new documents and then cut and paste), but I think it's probably a bug... I'm using OSX 10.3.7 and TextMate 1.1b1 (v1.1b1). Thanks, v

20 years, 3 months

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Improvement: Set focus to editor after Drag&Drop operation

by Christian Schwanke

Hi, I just managed to create a custom Drag Command that works similiar to the IMG-Dragging in HTML-Mode. However, after dropping a file, TextMate inserts the correct code but the focus stays with the project Drawer. Since I insert the code as a snippet, I have to press Shift+Tab in order to focus the editor pane before I can step through the different snippet-variables. So please, set the focus to the editor pane after drop-events or at an option to configure this behaviour. I'd also like to see a popup displaying the various auto-completion options instead of the ESC-cycle solution. Thanks in advance, Christian

20 years, 3 months

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Autocomplete from syntax file?

by Chris Jenkins

I was wondering whether there were any plans to alter the way TM auto-completes? The current system is good, but Id like it to be able to auto complete from files other than the current one, say all open files or all files in the project. Another probably even more useful ability would be if the syntax files could specify a list of keywords that could also be auto-completed on any file. Any other thoughts on this anyone? ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

20 years, 3 months

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Highlighting changes made to a document

by Andrew Green

Hi, Firstly, heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Allan on the latest beta. TextMate is getting better and better, seriously quickly. There's still one key feature from SubEthaEdit I'd *love* to see in TextMate, and that's the ability to highlight changes made to a document as they're made, using a background colour -- in much the same way that TM can now highlight the current line. By way of context, much of my work involves updating and tweaking code I've already written, and a great side-effect of the way SEE implements its collaborative editing is that any changes you make to a file can be highlighted as you go using a background colour of your choice. This makes it incredibly easy to see just what I've changed in the current session, so when I introduce bugs, I can very rapidly find what I've done and put it right. Could such a feature be included in TM? Or would it conflict horribly with the new syntax highlighting system? Cheers, Andrew. -- :: article seven Andrew Green automatic internet andrew(a)article7.co.uk | www.article7.co.uk

20 years, 3 months

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Nested snippet placeholders

by Jan-Ole Esleben

Hi! I wonder if I am the only person that would love to see nested snippets. Apparently, at the moment, snippets are processed by regular expression matching, which rules out nesting of placeholders. But wouldn't it be great if one could do something like this (that's for Prolog code): findall(${1:X}, ${2:member(${1:X}, $4)}, ${1:X}s) If you deleted $2, of course, the placeholders inside it would not be activated any more. And sorry if this has already been discussed, but I couldn't find any references to this particular subject. Ole

20 years, 3 months

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Feature Request: Default Highlighting

by Torsten Becker

Hi Allan and List, Sorry if this already exists, but I didn't find a way to do this with the current beta. If I fire up TextMate (or activate it, because it runs all the time) I often just do some normal writing of text. For this I have a basic highlighting which just highlights URLs. But in this situation (after pressing command-n) there is no highlighting activated. I would be very pleased if there could be some preference to define a default highlighting which gets applied to new files or the ones without a defined highlighting so that I not always have to adjust it from hand to see blue URLs. :) -- Torsten Becker

20 years, 3 months

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default fold level

by Jamal Johnson

howdy, is there a way to setup a default fold level for a particular mode so when you open a file in that mode it will automatically fold at that level? i looked in the help and at some syntax highlighting examples but didn't see anything of the sort. also, i would like to say i LOVE cmd-T!! i'm not using the project drawer at all anymore. i have 2 requests concerning it tho. 1) can the list 'wrap' so when you get to the top or bottom using arrow keys, it will wrap to the bottom / top respectively? 2) can there be an option to show the 'path' of the file, either in a tooltip or after the file name because i have many files with the same name in some of my projects and i can't tell which is which. thanx! - jamal

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