I have been waiting for a good and affordable text editor to come
along for OS X. I come from the Windows world and used UltraEdit
there. The one thing I really like about TextMate is the Tabbed
interface much like other MDI like editors such UltraEdit and IntelliJ
IDEA, especially the re-ording of tabs. I just wish that TextMate
offered this tabbing without having to create a project or even a
scratch project. It would be really neat if TextMate just opening up
in scratch project mode. Is possible in the current version?
Other than that and some more syntax highlighting, it's a great piece
of work! You are to be commended! First editor I have used on OS X
that felt "right".
Patrick
Small thingie: I think it would be very convenient if after entering all
the parameters in the snippet, the tab key would place the cursor at the
end of the snippet.
Example:
ahref\thttp://somewhere.com/\tsomewhere\t results in
<a href="http://somewhere.com/">somewhere</a>CURSOR instead of
<a href="http://somewhere.com/">somewhere CURSOR</a>
:)
BTW: I'm starting to enjoy this editor very much...! :)
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Joost Schuttelaar
Any plans for XHTML/CSS code hinting?
And what about browser previews other than the built in safari
rendering?
Also, can we just have the project drawer show up by default. There's
hardly ever an instance where I wouldn't need/want it in view.
-t
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On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed drew saying:
>I keep my dock quite small, and the icon just looks like a nasty
>brown blur.
Yeah, the problem with the icon isn't that it's ugly (I really don't
care either way), but that you can't easily recognize it if it's bellow
a certain size, which it is in my dock. That's what's great about
BBEdit's icon. It may not be pretty, but I always see it immediately
because it's unique.
lucas
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On 6.10.2004, space aliens observed Justin French saying:
>>The main feature I use in BBEdit is the excellent CSS support. I can
>>easily create new CSS rules and find out what the correct syntax is.
>>Having something similar in TextMate would be great.
>All the CSS properties (font-size, width, height, etc) are all in
>there as keywords, as are all the units (px, em, etc). Agreed, most
>of the values (bold, underline, block) are not in there yet, and TM
>has no idea if "left" is a valid value for "float", but I don't think
>BBEdit knows this either...
It does, though :-)
Here's how BBEdit work. If I have something like this:
.foo {
}
I move the cursor between the two brackets and hit Cmd-M. This gives me
a list of properties. I select one. This gives me something like this:
.foo
{
border-color: ;
}
Then I hit Cmd-Opt-M, and now I get a list of possible values for this
property along with related properties.
HTML tags work the same. This helps since
- I only ever use tags that are valid in the scope that I am in
- I always know what tags/properties I can use and how to spell them
- I always know what values are allowed
I'm not sure if something along those lines is planned for TextMate
since it may not be as much targeted at HTML as BBEdit is, but it would
certainly be very nice to have something like this, maybe even more
automatic, for example with dropdown lists of legal
functions/tags/properties/values/... automatically appearing while
typing.
lucas
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This is something I've longed for but have never seen it in any text
editor yet: the ability to simply select markup tags and/or their
enclosed contents. Most editors follow the selection logic of word >
line, which IMO is rarely useful in working with code.
What I'd like is an assortment of modifier-clicks (command-click,
option-click, command-shift-click, option-shift-click, etc.) that
perform the following:
(when the pointer is inside a tag)
- single-click selection of the current, single tag
- single-click selection of the current tag, its corresponding
opening/closing tag, and everything in between
(when the pointer is between two tags)
- single-click selection of everything between the two most immediate
tags (and excluding the tags themselves), with perhaps additional
clicks casting wider and wider inter-tag selections (going from
<td>[selection]</td> to <tr>[<td>selection</td>]</tr>, for example)
Some items (like the <div> tag in HTML syntax mode) are already being
treated as collapsible objects now, but there's no way (AFAIK) to grab
such an object and move it around without carefully selecting the whole
thing character-to-character. This seems like a needless restriction to
me.
Hope that's helpful.
John
Looks like things are calming down a little so I thought I'd chime in
with my TM experiences. I used it all day today for hacking on a Rails
app and here are my thoughts. I've avoided putting in nits that I've
seen addressed already, though it's possible I've missed seeing some,
please forgive me if there are duplicates :) My editing background is
that I'm a hardcore vim user and I quite dislike using the mouse while
editing.
Issues
* Renaming a group is kind of a pain, can it default to being ready to
edit when you click to make a new group?
* A language nitpick, the message on the group info window ... "What
did you expect to find here? ..." I dunno, seems a little
unfriendly?
* There seem to be some pretty annoying issues with the whole tree in
the drawer collapsing without my telling it to do so. For example,
have a group with folders in it, do the info on that folder to change
the regex, then when the changes get applied *poof* the tree
collapses. It has also collapsed at random times when I've switched
back to the desktop TM was on, though I cannot consistently reproduce
this, it just happens whenever.
* Any way to undo more than one character at a time? This is arduous,
though it may be difficult to implement without modes (ala vim).
* Dragging things around in the tree seems to be more painful than it
should. I'm not sure why, but I was trying to drag a folder such
that it would be below (but not nested in) another folder and I
couldn't get it to go. I became frustrated and deleted the reference
and re-added the folder. Anybody else experience this, or is it just
me?
Feature Requests
* Completions drawn from all open files, please?
* Auto un-dent things like (in Ruby) else, end, closing braces, etc?
The major issue for me is the collapsing of the tree that is going on.
Other than that this thing is pretty sexy. I enjoy the organization it
provides me and I look forward to the next release after this flood of
feedback you have recieved from the users. I'm confident that it will
be quite nice.
Thanks
-Scott
On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:24 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 6. Oct 2004, at 12:17, timothy martens wrote:
>
>> 1. Preview in Browsers with the ability to add/remove browsers. I
>> love the built in Safari engine live preview, but can we harness
>> other User Agents' rendering engines as well?
>
> You can open the current page in a browser using the Commands. There's
> already one that assigns command-r to activate and refresh Safari.
This is not working for me. When I do CMD+R ()reload in Safari) --
Safari launches/opens my default home page not the document in Textmate
I'd like to preview? Does the script need to be modified? Anyone?
I'm aware of the "Reload in Safari" under COmmands, but it's not
loading the page I want to preview in the browser but rather my default
home page? Any written a script that does this properly (i.e., launches
browser and preview page)?
Regexp is great (yay for positive and negative look-aheads...wish there
was pos/neg lookbehinds, too, even if only fixed-width). However, it's
lacking a pretty important feature, IMO: character case manipulation in
the replacement.
I'd love a way to:
* Change the first character of the saved subexpression to
upper/lowercase.
* Change all characters to upper/lowercase until further notice.
I really lust for the folding feature of TextMate for Ruby work (and a
couple other features that BBEdit lacks) but the core isn't quite
there...yet :)
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