Why does TextMate lack any sort of single-project/multi-window functionality (the most functional and common implementation being arbitrary split panes within the editor windows, ....
Is anyone else -- besides me and the 2 people who asked after this feature here and on the wiki in the fall -- interested in panes? If not, how on earth do you work with multiple text files simultaneously?
I'm confused by the request. One piece talks about many files, one project (the end). For this, I use the 'project drawer'. Start a new project. Add the folders that I am working with (the drawer automatically finds the enclosed files). Now as I click on files in the hierarchy, they appear as tabs. You can flip between them using Ctrl-Opt-Arrow. It works pretty well... My only complaint is that the drawer remembers state oddly. If you add a folder and want to omit a subfolder (in my case because there are 1,500 data files in it), TM will add it back when it refreshes; other times when it refreshes the folders close up. But Allan is aware of these annoyances...
The other piece asks for split views of the same document. I think BBEdit had this, but I used the functionality about once a month. If I need to jump between subroutines, there are a number of 'jump to function' commands that are competing in the TM svn repository. The project I'm working on now is broken up into a bunch of modules that are in different files anyway. I have been learning how fantastically indispensable the "Find in Project" command is.
- Eric