On 25/09/2005, at 9.15, Kevin Ballard wrote:
On Sep 25, 2005, at 2:59 AM, Frédérik Bilhaut wrote:
- I use to write large documents in XML, and I use the soft
wrapping feature. But unfortunately the indentation is not properly handled in this mode, since only the first "physical" line gets indented. You probably now JEdit does that very well, I may send a screenshot if you wish.
Indented soft wrap is something I plan for 1.3.
I have never used an editor that indented soft-wrapped lines. I would think that would be annoying because the editor would control the indentation, not you.
I haven't used an editor which supported it myself, but I think given proper regexps and setting it on a scope level might allow for quite a lot of flexibility, so e.g. only comments in source code would be wrapped and indented, bullet points would have the bullet included in the indent of next line etc.
- I need some way to close XML tags automatically with the
easyiest possible keystroke. For some reason, the shortcut for this feature does not work on my system (Tiger on iBook G4 and latest version of TextMate).
Not sure if latest version is 1.1b17 from the webpage or actually latest build (rev. 469), you can get the latter from: http:// get.textmate.org -- and I have done some workaround for a menu key problem since the actual 1.1b17, so this might be the problem.
Also, I think that the JEdit way to do this is very good : you just have to type "</" and the rest of the closing tag comes up automatically. For me this is far more natural than typing an arbitrary keystroke.
It may be possible to write a macro or something to do a closing tag when typing </ without requiring any changes to the actual program, but if so I don't know how. Allan?
Indeed it is: In an HTML document, type < (it inserts <>, but ignore that), now do: 1) Automation / Start Macro Recording 2) Backwards delete (to delete <, which also removes >) 3) Automation / Insert Closing Tag 4) Automation / Stop Macro Recording
Now save this macro, give it key equivalent /, and here's the sneaky part: set the scope to: text.html invalid.illegal.incomplete
The scope controls when the macro should “fire”, and if you press ctrl-shift P inside <>, you'll see the scope of that position, which is what's quoted above. So only inside <> will / fire this macro, which first removes the <> and then inserts the closing tag.
In a future version input patterns will be another way to achieve the same, w/o having to use scopes.
- And of course, having the possibility to have a simple file
browser without creating a project would be great.
Try dragging a folder to TextMate, then it'll make a project out of the folder, you can navigate it either using the project drawer, or using Navigation / Go to File (cmd T) which beats most file browsers :)