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Re: highlight tabs and spaces in different colors / Invisibles.bundle

by Daniel K�smayr

Ryan, > Could you put together an example of a theme rule that would > highlight the > spaces in a document using this bundle? Just add a new line to whatever theme you are using (in prefs, fonts&colors, click the plus button), select that line, enter the scope selector that the Invisibles.bundle assigns to invisibles - et voilá! hth, Daniel PS: I don't have access to the bunlde -- thus you will need to figure out the scope yourself from the bundle editor.

19 years, 10 months

command with osascript stalls

by Quinn Comendant

This is either a bug or I'm doing something wrong. I've created a bundle command with the following line: osascript -e 'tell application "TextMate"' -e 'set bounds of window 1 to {640, 1, 1279, 832}' -e 'set bounds of window 2 to {1, 1, 640, 832}' -e 'end tell'; TextMate beachballs until I run 'killall osascript' in the terminal. If I run the above line in the terminal directly, it works as expected. Is there some kind of break in the chain of Command -> Shell -> Applescript -> TextMate? Can anybody think of a better way to emulate BBEdit's "Arrange Windows" command? Thanks, Quinn

19 years, 10 months

Java language grammar problems

by Steve Lianoglou

Hi folks, Don't know what happened to my original email, but it seems it got gobbled up before it even reached the mailing list, so here goes again: I'm not sure if this is a bug in TM or the java grammar since upon reviewing the Java Lang definition itself, it seemed to be correct in the "hey-that-looks-right" sense .. not the "oh-yeah-I-know-what-I'm- talking-about-and-that's-definitely-right" sense. I just pulled the latest (everything) from svn. I didn't realize if the Java.tmbundle was updated, but there are some things going on which look a bit buggy. FIRST: When the cursor is immediately outside of a block comment, the scope still shows "comment.documentation.java" or "comment.block.java" when I don't think it should be (imagine the ^ character to be the cursor): Example: /* some comment here */^ -- or -- /** * My method does this */^ the scope on the outside of the closed comment is being recognized as comment.block.java and comment.documentation.java respectively when really I'm out of the comment blocks. SECOND: All the code after an abstract method is scoped to meta.definition.method.java, like for Example: public abstract void doSomething(); // all code in the file below this is scoped to the meta.definition.method.java if I add a {} at the end of the abstract method signature the scope gets fixed -- but, y'know ... then the compiler complains :-) Thanks, -steve

19 years, 10 months

Huge files in Textmate ( ***long*** )

by Richard Vile

Hi, I'm new to Textmate and enjoying it a lot. This weekend, I was playing around with the good old Sieve of Eratosthenes. That was the very first computer program I ever wrote (way back in 1970 in Fortran IV - ran it on an IBM1130 with 8K - yes that's K! of core memory). It computed all the primes less than 10,000 and its runtime (determined by using my wristwatch while looking through the window into the computer room - timed from when the operator loaded the cards into the reader until the output started on the line printer) was about 90 seconds, not counting the printout which probably took longer than the compute time. Just out of curiosity, I wrote a cheesy, q&d little python script to do the sieve: #!/usr/local/env python import sys, os """ The sieve of Eratosthenes. Compute all primes less than some integer (given here by 'bound') """ def printem(sieve): # Any sieve entries still not 0 must be primes # (Eratosthenes - antiquity) px = 0 for p in range(0, len(sieve[2:])): if sieve[p] != 0: print sieve[p], px += 1 if (px % 10) == 0: print def sievem(bound=0): if bound == 0: sys.stdout.write('How many integers should I sieve? ') bound = int(sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]) sieve = range(0, bound+1) remove = 2 while remove * remove < bound+1: for pm in range(remove*remove, bound+1, remove): if pm < bound + 1: sieve[pm] = 0 # Find "next" prime from the remaining sieve elements for np in range(remove+1, bound+1): if sieve[np] != 0: remove = np break printem (sieve) print if __name__ == '__main__': sievem(10000) I ran 'time python sieve.py' and got: real 0m0.816s user 0m0.127s sys 0m0.215s This on my dual 867mhz Mac G4 with 2Gb RAM. Not surprising that it's faster. But comparing python to compiled Fortran seems a little unfair, so I ginned up a little C program and compiled that for N=10000 and timed it: (list of primes < 10000) ... found 1229 primes real 0m0.331s user 0m0.005s sys 0m0.022s That's about 272 times as fast as the old IBM machine, but that's not the point of this story. I decided to see how far I could push the calculations on my machine without tying it up for a week and without spending a lot of time fiddling with the algorithm. I finally wound up computing all the primes less than 1 billion and redirecting the output to a file. (Googling confirmed that the number of primes computed by my code was correct). The resulting file is fairly large: -rw-rw-r-- 1 dick staff 507044566 Mar 27 17:54 primes_upto_a_billion.txt So, I decided to see how various programs would handle loading, displaying and (shudder) manipulating this file. First, I burned it to a CD using Toast with little or no difficulty. Then I experimented with BBEdit (Lite), irEdit, Eclipse3.1, SeaMonkey (Mozilla browser), Alpha, etc. etc. with very mixed results. Most of them either loaded the file (and then were very sluggish about navigating it), had to be force killed, or cleanly gave up. The latter was the case for most of the Java based apps, since they probably defaulted to starting the JavaVM with too little heap: it's obviously gonna take at least 600mb or more. The programs that succeeded usually showed both Real and Virtual memory sizes in the range of 900+ Mb. Finally, I got around to trying TextMate. Well, the results were disappointing. It crashed before finishing its load: TextMate(21976,0xa000ef98) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=1073741824) failed (error code=3) TextMate(21976,0xa000ef98) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region TextMate(21976,0xa000ef98) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): St9bad_alloc My interpretation of this console output is that TextMate was trying to acquire over a gigabyte of memory with a single request. Not clear (a) why this much would be needed for a slightly over 500mb file and (b) why my machine couldn't respond, since I regularly have Inactive size at or near 1Gb and lots more available from programs that at idle could be forced to page out their real memory to disk. Anyway, I thought it was all interesting and I would like to hear people's reactions about the whole topic of editor scalability and editing huge files. This does have real-world ramifications. E.g. the product I work on is a large Financial Analysis programming language written in C and bits of C++, which implements a proprietary database format for time-series data storage. When there are problems in debugging, we generate "slog" files (selective logs) which routinely in the worse cases can approach 1Gb in size. We've never really found a reasonably way to deal with the largest of these and usually resort to other methods, but it would be nice some day to be able to actually edit them with some measure of efficiency. I'm sure most readers of this list have had similar experiences. In addition, when I had finished experimenting with the other editors / browsers / IDEs, and went to quit my existing TextMate session, it took quite some time. I got several spinning beachballs in the process. My take on this is that my experimenting caused lots of TextMates working storage to be paged out and that it had to fault all that stuff back into it's working set. That kind of thing seems to happen with TextMate in general: e.g. when I accidentally hover too long in the File menu on Open Recent... TextMate spins that beachball for all it's worth - often taking 10 or 15 seconds to come back to life. What's up with that? Does it try to generate this from project files and have to read through the equivalent of 1000's of status entries, many perhaps out on disk? Whatever - it's quite annoying and I've tried to force myself to use Cmd-O whenever possible. Sorry for the length of this, I just couldn't resist. (How many of you made it all the way to the end?) -- Dick Vile at home in Dexter, MI USA

19 years, 10 months

Show Invisibles (Spaces) in TextMate?

by Ryan J. Bonnell

I'm a long-time web developer and BBEdit user wanting to learn TextMate for a Ruby on Rails project. I've grown used to relying on BBEdit's show invisibles command as meaning "show me tabs, spaces, line-endings, and other non-printing characters (gremlins)" as symbols. I was expecting the same behavior out of TextMate as BBEdit or SubEthaEdit, but it doesn't seem to work the same. I've searched the TextMate documentation and the mailing list archive for any mention of "showing spaces", (i.e. the ability to show spaces, a la BBEdit's "Show Invisibles" command) but I've been unable to find any results that address my problem. However, TextMate seems to show tabs and line endings but not any more of the non-printing characters that BBEdit shows. I was able to find the ShowInvisibles Bundle for TexMate that aims to highlight tabs and spaces in different colors but it doesn't appear to work with my setup and/or preferences. ShowInvisibles Bundle (11-27-04) http://macromates.com/wiki/pmwiki?n=Bundles.ShowInvisibles Has anyone had any success in configuring TextMate to "Show Invisibles" or "Show Spaces" like BBEdit or SubEthaEdit allow? If there's a a build of TextMate that already does is, I can't find it and in that case would appreciate a hint or help getting it working. Thanks! - Ryan J. Bonnell ryan(a)creativearc.com http://creativearc.com/

19 years, 10 months

How can export Bundle settings ?

by Diana Tanase

Hi All, I'd like to be able to export my bundle customizations to another installation of TextMate. What's the easiest way to do this? Thank you. Diana T

19 years, 10 months

Weird Symbol?

by Eric Coleman

Not sure why this is happening, but on my MacBook pro, i have weird "php" symbol in the language chooser thingie.. I've attached a screen shot. Basically, instead of the usual "X" i got some funky [->] thing. Any reason for this? Eric Coleman

19 years, 10 months

encoding detection

by Yvon Thoraval

Hey all, i wonder if their is encoding detection in TextMate usable in anothe app. i'd like to discriminate between : iso-8859-1, iso-8859-15, cp-1252 and Mac Roman for the time being, using a ruby regex i'm only able to detect US- ASCII and UT-8.... in case u have some light upon that... Yvon

19 years, 10 months

Re: Language Grammar & more

by Daniel K�smayr

Allan, thank you for clarifying things even more. I believe THIS: >> [...] What exactly IS the most useful way and best way in regards >> to updating "official" bundles via svn to make customized bundles? > > Create an entirely new language grammar and have that one include > the default one. Then set your files to use the custom grammar > instead of the official. Should be in the manual or FAQ. (Or is it and I have missed it?) >> [...] A couple questions still bog my mind, though: >> - Am I correct assuming that I can use a certain pattern just >> once? When I copy a rule from Latex.plist to my custom.plist - >> only the one encountered first gets to markup the text. > > Yes, just like a regular parser :) Oh, OK, whatever a regular parser is - I am just a chemist, not a programmer. ;) >> - Is there a way to markup a pattern with more than just one >> scopes? Like for \begin{mycustomlist} set something like >> meta.environment.list *and* meta.package.custom > > Generally one would use a longer scope name and put the extra > information deeeper in the scope name. But you can use captures to > overcome the limitation. Thanks for the hint; I guess I will need to figure out if the whole thing is necessary at all… ;) >> I am using a svn checkout of the bundle - >>> e181090182:/Library/Application Support/TextMate dekay$ ls >>> Bundles Conventions.txt LICENSE Themes >>> Tools > > No Support folder? I had a support folder in ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate but did check out the svn version into /Library… as well, now. >> [...] Also I cannot get the "Edit in Textmate"-InputManager to >> work in Mail.app - it works e.g. in TextMate's Bundle-Editor (very >> useful), but Mail.app would be even more so. ;( > > Do you see the Edit in TextMate… menu item in the Edit menu of > Mail? If not, did you restart Mail after installing the input manager? No, I do not see it. Even after a couple of restarts… maybe it is because of me being on an iMac CoreDuo? But then as far as I have seen the InputManager seems to be Universal. now back to my breakfast, Dan

19 years, 10 months

Bundle Language "Language Definition"

by Daniel K�smayr

Dear TMaters, I am just editing some language grammar (again) and -- since this is about the best idea ever -- am doing this in a regular textmate window (not the bundle editor). And voila, I can select a new language, one for which I cannot find a bundle, called "Language Definition." Neat. But it beeps. When I select the language, when I add new lines etc. From console.log 2006-03-26 14:05:08.905 TextMate[455] didn't find rule named source.plist 2006-03-26 14:05:08.906 TextMate[455] didn't find rule source.plist Anything I should/can do about this? thx, Dan PS: If I am clogging the list, tell me :)

19 years, 10 months

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