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[TextMate] Project containing files on a remote disk - bug?

by Andre Posumentov

Hi, Probably unfair to call the following a bug - as it's behaviour that seems correct in the context of a purely local filesystem. However, it can catch you out if your Project contains references to remote files. It went like this: 1/. Create a deeply nested Project file, consisting solely of pointers to files on a remote disk (mounted via SMB). 2/. Do work, close Project file. 3/. Eject the SMB drive. Go to lunch, or whatever. 4/. Return from whatever and reopen the Project file - forgetting to remount the remote disk first ... 5/. Gaze in silent horror at the empty Project. On start-up, TM silently deletes all unresolveable file references from the Project, leaving only the Groups that you have created. Any laboriously constructed filter definitions are deleted too, of course. TM immediately writes the revised Project file back to disk, making sure that you can't recover from your mistake. Might it be an idea to have TM pop up a warning - if it detects that a remote volume has disappeared? On a machine left idle for any length of time, 'sleep' can cause remote volumes to eject themselves - so I guess TM would need to check this periodically, and not just at start-up. Cheers, -- Andre

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] Coloured labels in Project Drawer

by Drew McLellan

I put a feature request for this on the wiki, but I thought it was probably worth shouting out here too. It would be really great if labels applied in the Finder (you know, the colour-coded blob things) were shown in the Project Drawer. I use labels to mark the most important files and folders in my web apps, and being able to make use of this in TM would be *fantastic*. Cheers. drew.

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] Wrap column problem(s)

by Luc Heinrich

Yo, I was playing with TM, trying to find some nits to pick and found the "View -> Wrap Column -> Other" thingy :) The default wrap width is at 78, and I usually use 80, so I went to change this and selected the previously mentioned menu item. I was expecting some sort of dialog or sheet, but saw nothing. Worse, the 'View' menu was still highlighted so I immediately thought that something wrong was happening and/or that TM was stuck or about to crash. When something like this happens in an application, I have this pavlovian habit to agitate the mouse a bit to see if the spinning pizza of death shows up, before I just kill the app. But this time it helped to see that, oooooh, something was actually hapenning IN the current text window: setting the wrap width is done using an "in-place interactive bar"... I see three usability problems with this: - The obvious one, which I mentioned in my (unnecessary verbose) introduction is that unless you already know how it works, you have no freakin' clue what happens after you select the "Other" menu item. - You can't modify the wrap width when no window is open. - And now try that in a window using one of those syntax which have the infamous black background, and see how far the confusion can get... :> Sorry, I'm a natural born nitpicker ;) -- Luc Heinrich - lucsky(a)mac.com - http://www.honk-honk.com

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] monaco font readability

by kumar mcmillan

I am not sure if I should put this in as a feature request... There is a very very nice feature (or possibly quirk?) to the text library that SubEthaEdit and BBEdit are built on. When you adjust the font size for Monaco down to "9" then it loses its fuzziness and "snaps" into pixel-perfect, fixed-width readability. I don't know why this happens but TextMate doesn't do it. If I turn font smoothing off for size 9 and lower, TextMate makes Monaco pixelated and crisper, but it does not look fixed-width (i.e. it's slightly squished together for some letters and not very easy to read). I know this seems trivial, but staring at code all day is hard enough on the eyes as it is, yet the SubEtha/BBEdit font rendering is much more scannable. Any ideas of settings adjustments I can try? thanks, kumar

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] folding keyboard shortcut

by M Spreij

Is the shortcut for "View -> Fold Current Block", F1, editable? I couldn't find it in the KeyBindings.dict file. Regards, Martin

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] Syntax plists

by Jeroen van der Ham

Hi, While creating my syntax plist for python I ran into two things: - Is it possible to activate a syntax mode without restarting TextMate? - Is there a syntax highlighter for plists yet ? :) Jeroen.

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] Exclude .svn in the default folder pattern?

by Drew McLellan

As CVS is excluded by default, shouldn't we exclude .svn too? drew.

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] Project file drawer

by Phil Aaronson

Hi All, I seem to be locked in a battle of wills with the project file drawer (for lack of a better name). I remove references to sub-directories and files, and well, the file drawer puts them back in. Repeat. Repeat. Swear, and give round one to TextMate. Anyone else battling with the drawer? I got into this test of wills by dragging and dropping a directory tree that looked like: YYYY/MM and then removing references to a few YYYY/MM/img directories and the occasional pdf file. Well, "removing" them very temporarily :) Thanks, Phil

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] Re: Problem with UTF8 encoding

by Allan Odgaard

On 13. Oct 2004, at 12:50, Dominique PERETTI wrote: > - If you reopen in TextMate, it stills appear as UTF8... BUT if you > reopen it in BBEdit, it opens as a MacRoman file (with accents wrong). I don't have BBEdit, but I think BBEdit _always_ opens as MacRoman. And you have to manually tell it to open it with the proper encoding (at least that was my experience when I tried it >2 years ago, both my iso-8859-1 and utf-8 files were all opened as MacRoman by BBEdit)!?! > My guess is that TextMate is right at encoding the characters, but > forgots to write the BOM right. I think so because I get the same > wrong results in FlashMX > if I save the file as utf8-(no BOM) from BBEdit. The BOM is optional in utf-8, and generally you _don't_ want it, since a) it makes no sense as there is no byte-order ambiguity, b) it rules the nice property of utf-8 being compatible with ascii, c) utf-8 encoding is really easy to recognize even without a BOM. But if several programs only treat utf-8 properly when it has a BOM, I will consider adding an option -- though I would recommend against using it of course! ;) Kind regards Allan

20 years, 2 months

[TextMate] Find/Replace special characters

by Patrick Burleson

Hello all, I'm loving TM even with it's little blemishes (like not printing!). But here's a question: How do I search for or replace text with a special character, such as a <CR>? With UltraEdit I would use ^M or something like that. Does TM offer the same sorts of things? Thanks, Patrick

20 years, 2 months

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