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by James Edward Gray II

Hello. I'm a new TextMate user, still trying to get the hang of using an automation heavy editor. I've run into a few questions as I'm getting use to the program and even managed to answer most of them myself, with a little playing around. One is still tripping me up though, so I thought I would ask. I have Smart Typing turned on and am trying to figure out if I like it. Most of the time, it's fine, but there are times when I don't want the pair, like the apostrophes in this sentence. Is there any way to get it not the add the closing marker for a single keystroke? Thanks. James Edward Gray II

20 years, 10 months

Command Chooser?

by Brad Miller

Allan, Here's a suggestion that came to me this morning. How about applying the wonderful logic in the file chooser to commands and macros? I was thinking of it being very much like Quicksilver for TextMate commands. I love it that the number of Bundles for TextMate is growing so quickly! What I don't like is that there is very little structure to the allocation of keyboard shortcuts. Its very quickly becoming emacs-like in the number of option-command-control-foo key-combos one must remember. I know they are all there in the menu system, but I prefer to not use the mouse very much when I'm writing and programming. One thing I always like about emacs, was that I could type Meta-x and type in the the beginning of a command, hit space for auto-complete, maybe a couple more characters, and I would have the command I was looking for. I used this technique for a whole host of commands that I used fairly often, but not often enough to remember the keyboard shortcut. I think you could easily go one better by applying your matching algorithm to macros and commands. Another thing that I liked was that emacs was self-teaching in that it would often tell me the keystroke needed to activate the command I just typed, so that after seeing it a bunch of times I would just start to remember. Brad Brad Miller, PhD Assistant Professor Luther College http://www.cs.luther.edu/~bmiller jabber: bnmnetp(a)jabber.org

20 years, 10 months

Re: [TxMt] Inline PDF

by Rob Walton

Woah, quick response! Thanks. I would like to be able to preview latex equations as I'm writing. I really like writing latex, but can't wrap my mind around all the brackets in latex equations. There is a service called "equation service". In the text editor, you highlight the text you would like previewed and call the equation service. It cuts the highlighted text into the clipboard, turns it into a pdf, and then copies this into the clipboard and pastes it into your document. The result is that you see a typset equation rather than a mess of latex code. When it creates the pdf, it stores the latex code you orignially typed in the pdf. This way, equation service can be recalled on the pdf preview, this time replacing it with the orignal latex code so you can edit it. Under emacs this functionality is provided by an addon called preview-latex which is brilliant ( http://preview-latex.sourceforge.net/ ). However, I'm fed up with emacs and would like to try a cocoa based editor, as they are way more easily applescripted. The webpage for equation service is http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/EquationService/ - Rob P.S. (I may have imagined PDF Replacement Services. The equation service home page talks of a program either supporing or not "text -> PDF services". I have looked on apples developer site and found no reference of this.)

20 years, 10 months

Feature Request: Open Folder via Command-O

by Torsten Becker

Hi Allan, I know, you probably have to do other things concerning TM development but I have one thing which I would like to see because it now very often annoyed me: Opening a Folder via the Open-Menu. It happens very often that I want so open several files at once but the only way to do this is to mark them all in the open-dialog via Command-A, but then I can't browse the sub-folders. So my request is that I can fire up the open-dialog via Command-O (like ATM) and then also can select folders and start a new project this way. -- Torsten Becker (novaa on freenode)

20 years, 10 months

Feature Request: Open Recent Files/Projects implementation idea

by Mats Persson

I know this is probably on Allan's To Do list, and was mentioned not too long ago by others, but I haven't found the actual implementation discussed anywhere. So here goes my 2 cent worth of ideas. I think the ideal implementation of this feature is just like the Apple implementation in the Apple Menu's - Recent Items. The applications (= projects) and the files (= TM single non-project files opened) are separated as sub-menus of the menu item. Nice, clean and easy to use. The settings for the number of items stored in each sub-menu should then be set in the Preferences window, something along the line of what is in System Preferences - Appearance -> Number of Recent Items: For the past month or so I've been working with 3 projects opened at all times. Then over the weekend I closed them down and looked through some new code from a friend. As a result, I now have to 'go hunting' for the .tmproj files through the Finder. I know, it doesn't stop me from working, but this is just some basic 'spit & polish' to correct a minor workflow problem in an otherwise fantastic app. Kind regards, Mats ---- "TextMate, coding with an incredible sense of joy and ease" - www.macromates.com -

20 years, 10 months

Inline PDF

by Rob Walton

Can textmate show pdf files inline? If so, does it work with apples pdf replacement services? Thanks

20 years, 10 months

Export selected text to HTML?

by Chris Ruzin

Hello all, I started using TextMate 1.1b4 and really like it so far. I'm just beginning to learn about Ruby and TextMate is much better than BBEdit with it. I was looking around the Web for some example code, and saw on someone's blog that they had colorized Ruby code examples with line numbers. I emailed them to ask them how they did it, and they told me they used Vim. They said in Vim, you open the file you want colorized and type ":runtime! syntax/2html.vim". Vim will then split the window with the original in the upper half and the colorized HTML version in the bottom half. He then copies what he needs out of that and pastes it into his blog entry. He says it will work with any language Vim understands. What I'm wanting to know is if there's a way to do something like this in TextMate? Perhaps a command? I'm not familiar with the inner workings or power toys in TextMate, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Chris

20 years, 10 months

OS X Services

by Eric Curtis

With the recent introduction of Apple's Pages software I have been reading a slew of reviews that point out it's short-comings however this has also prompted people to write in solutions for them. I have discovered some very nice services (that will of course work in Textmate as well) so I wanted to start a discussion on what services do you use (perhaps not use do to stability issues) and can not live without. Here is one that I think I will be using quite often: http://www.nisus.com/Thesaurus/ Looking forward to some new toy : ) Eric C

20 years, 10 months

folding behaves very irregularly

by Bruno Bronosky

I have not found any documentation on how folding works. From what I can tell it is a combination of character pairs and indentation. I'm have great stress trying to make sense of a PHP class which I did not write. I cannot make sense of it in BBEdit which I have always used for code. (I stumbled on TextMate today.) TM would help greatly with it's folding feature, if I could properly fold functions. However the class author used inconsistant indentation (for which he should be tortured) which is causing folds to begin with the { of a function declaration and the } of an if clause. I have checked using BBEdit's Text>Balance feature (which is very cool and should be added to TM) and the {'s and }'s are properly balanced. But, since the indentation sucks, I can't fold. Please correct the folding behavior. Thank you, --==<< R i c h a r d B r o n o s k y >>==--

20 years, 10 months

testing

by jason hoffman

20 years, 10 months

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