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by Patrick James

Hi I've just started using TextMate and I'm hugely impressed by it. My text editor requirements are not very sophisticated, I use it mostly for HTML/CSS and for processing text from time to time from databases, or transcripts of online meetings with chat clients, that kind of thing. I'm sure that I will be using TextMate for my simple AppleScript writing as well now in preference to Apple's rather basic Script Editor. I have been using BBEdit for ages and I feel it is a very fine text editor indeed, however TextMate is a bit of genius. Before I used BBEdit I used the Nisus Writer word processor for text editing in the classic Mac OS. Although a word processor Nisus Writer was a superb text editor and, like TextMate offered many truly unique abilities. Nisus also made a text editor called QUED/M which predated their word processor and had similar unique abilities of their word processor. One of the truly great things about Nisus Writer and QUED/M was the non-contiguous text selection and the way in which Nisus had exploited this. I think Nisus were the first with non-contiguous text selection but today it is quite common-place. An obvious example is Apple's TextEdit which will do non-contiguous text selection. If you are not familiar with it then you can open an TextEdit document and put it in 'rich text' mode if it is not already. Then put some text into it. Now you can select non-contiguous words in that text using command-click. Now that you have selected those words you can press command-B on your keyboard and those words will turn bold. I'm now going to describe how Nisus exploited non-contiguous text selection and why it was so very useful. If you imagine that you have some text which is intended for a web- site. Within the text are various book titles and you wish to surround these with the tag. There is nothing at all about the words of the book titles which is similar. Well with Nisus Writer you would select the book titles non-contiguously, using command-click, then you would get out the Find dialogue and put in the Find field: .+ In the Replace field: & (The & matching all of the Find field) Then you invoke 'Replace in Selection' and each piece of non- contiguously selected text is now surrounded by tags. In Nisus Writer you would turn that operation into a macro and now you can apply the tags to any non-contiguously selected text with great ease. Now it gets cleverer :) In the example above the replaced text, the book titles surrounded by is still selected after the Find/Replace has been performed. This means that further GREP Find/Replace can by performed using 'Replace in Selection. With a programme like BBEdit a search for multiple items in a file will produce a browser identifying the search results. However with Nisus Writer a search for multiple items in a file will leave them selected non-contiguously in the file. This enables you to perform a further search on those non-contiguous selections with 'Replace in Selection' again. To give an example. I think it is nice to have smart quotes in the displayed text in a web- site. To do this I have to use HTML entities. The actual text I have contains 'stupid' quotes, however I can create a Find/Replace that will look for the 'stupid' quotes and replace them with 'smart quote' HTML entities depending on whether they come before or after words. The problem is that there are many 'stupid' quotes in the HTML tags for things like class="main". What I need to do is to find the text between the HTML tags and then replace the 'stupid' quotes in that with the smart quote HTML entities. To do this in BBEdit I created an AppleScript which has a loop. It finds the first instance of 'text between HTML tags' and then replaces 'stupid' quotes with smart quote HTML tags. Then it finds the next instance of 'text between HTML tags' and so on... To do that required me to create quite a clunking AppleScript. However in Nisus Writer I could do it with two simple Find/Replace operations. Because Nisus Writer had non-contiguous selection of course. I could find all the instances of 'text between HTML tags' and know that this was selected. Then I could use 'Replace in Selection' to replace all the 'stupid' quotes with smart quote HTML entities. For Nisus Writer this was an absolutely trivial matter. So, the moral of my story is that in a text editor with GREP Find/ Replace having non-contiguous text selection brings a massive amount of additional text editing power. Patrick

18 years, 2 months

Keep project drawer expansions across sessions

by Jason Tokoph

Is it possible to add the feature or even a plugin that makes TextMate remember which directories I have expanded in the project drawer? I'd like to be able to quit TextMate and be able to keep my project window exactly as I had it the next time I launch the project. Thanks, Jason

18 years, 2 months

Feature Request inline menu for bundle commands with the same shortcut

by Hans-Jörg Bibiko

Hi, example: if I press CTRL+SHIFT+A I see all subversion commands: Add to Repository Remove From Repository Revert Update to Newest ---------- Commit ---------- Blame Info Log View Revision... Status ---------- Diff Revisions ... Would it be possible to have the submenu titles instead of a line '--------' in TM 2.0? À la: Add to Repository Remove From Repository Revert Update to Newest ---------- Commit ---------- History and Info Blame Info Log View Revision... Status Diff Diff Revisions ... Merge  Show Available Revisions for Merging Resolve Conflicts With FileMerge… .... This already works for shortcuts of commands which are stored in different bundles. And I do not know if one could add a new level in the inline menu. Cheers, --Hans

18 years, 2 months

Feature Request for Bundle Init

by Hans-Joerg Bibiko

Hi, for some bundles I wrote I came across that it would be nice to have a kind of a "init procedure" for bundles. I'm thinking about to have a standard subfolder called "_INIT_" in a bundle. If that subfolder exists all scripts inside of that subfolder will be executed while installing that bundle (meaning double-click at X.tmbundle, or "Reload Bundles", or TM starts). It should be added a marker that indicates that the init procedure was done to avoid to call these scripts more than once. This init scripts should be execute inside of the bundle environment (to e.g. interpret $TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT correctly). This could be helpful for instance: - to check dependencies of libs, files, versions of executables, OS version etc. and give an alert if something mismatches - to set up/build/unzip bundle specific files (useful to minimize the bundle size while downloading) - to install a specific environment used by the bundle's commands (e.g. for the Rdaemon, it will install Rdaemon while installing the bundle) - to ask the user if a file is missing to download it and to install it I do not know if that request is specific to me. And I do not know what kind of consequences will arise, esp. to check e.g. a text file was changed inside of the bundle which is the source to built an index file. Of course, it could also be a security issue. Furthermore if these init scripts always will execute if TM starts it could be used to check if an update is available for the given bundle. Are there any comments on that? Thanks, --Hans

18 years, 2 months

"Edit in Textmate" not working for Mail.app

by hiaw

Hi, I try to use the "Edit in Textmate" function in Mail but all I get is a blank page. If I type something and save it, it would just add that piece of text to the mail, where the cursor is. Is this the default behaviour? I thought Textmate usually display the whole mail.... The "Edit in Textmate" works in other application, I'm writing this post now through Safari in Textmate. Thanks Daniel -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22Edit-in-Textmate%22-not-working-for-Mail.app-tp180… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

18 years, 2 months

Insert todo with ruby idents =begin and =end

by Vesa-Pekka Palmu

A annoyance with the insert todo -macro and ruby is that if the cursor is indended when using it it places the =begin and =end tags at the current level. The problem is that ruby only regognizes them at the start of the line. So this works: if true puts "foo" =begin TODO: =end end But this doesn't work: if true puts "foo" =begin TODO: =end end I haven't had the time to look at the insert-todo code too much so I can't provide a patch, but the correct behaviour would be to make sure that there is no whitespace before the comment block tags. (IMO is rather silly of ruby that block comments can't have whitespace before the =begin and =end tags...)

18 years, 2 months

Balancing Bracket in overwrite mode

by Wil Baden

When entering text in overwrite mode, the automatic right bracket after a left bracket shifts the rest of the line right.

18 years, 2 months

select and move

by Baluta Cristian

hello,i'm wondering if is any rule to select a text and drag it with the mouse to another location. i'm asking this because it's not always working, somoetimes it deselects few times till i succeed. -- Cristi www.ralcr.com

18 years, 2 months

Shortcut Alt+Shift+S conflict

by EDi_nabi

Hello, I'm a fresh user of TextMate, and I have a little problem. By default there is something assigned to the Alt+Shift+S keys combination. This "something" prints a message: cat: /tmp/TextMate-ScratchSnippet.txt: No such file or directory The problem is that this keys combination is also a combination for the Polish letter "Ś", so it's difficult to write regular Polish text. Is there a way to turn this shortcut off? Thank You for help. ED -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Shortcut-Alt%2BShift%2BS-conflict-tp18045393p18045393… Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

18 years, 2 months

Writing a Book with TextMate

by marios

Hi, I would like to gather some suggestions for the following. 1) Don't want to go into that Latex thing. 2) Keep chapters in simple Text Format ( or markdown or Textile ) 3) Project also contains a huge amount of reference files in txt and pdf format 4) What's the best way to handle: a) Index b) footnotes c) References d) Appendixes etc. Is it a good thing to keep the Book in one single file, or is it better to use multiple files ? Suggestions, links and resources welcome regards, marios

18 years, 2 months

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