Hello,
I just started using TextMate about a week ago, and I've been collecting some of my impressions, and any notes for things I had trouble learning how to do. I was going to add this to the wiki on a User Page, but I can't seem to find how to do that.
Overall, I really like TextMate. I was actually prompted to try it out by someone on IRC when I asked what people thought of BBEdit - since they're having a sale for $99 right now. So, I was going to buy it, but I was scared off when people kept talking about "bloat" and whatnot. So, I'm giving TextMate a shot, but I've become rather familiar with TextWrangler, so most of my feedback has to do with coming from that paradigm - just to warn you.
Anyway, here's the beef:
=============================== = TextMate Notes = ===============================
==================== = Feature Requests = ====================
make it so that you can always show the file browsing drawer allow a "single window" interface where new files opened are always opened in the same window (like textwrangler) looking for an easy way to make textmate the "default text editor" or something to that effect if you move a file (via the finder or whatever) while it is being edited, textmate can't follow it (textwrangler did) collect color "themes" on website for easy download option to make file browsing drawer on the right
===================== = 2005-10-14 snippets = =====================
snippets are specific to the language. you can find them in the menu - Automation -> Insert Snippet go to Edit Snippets to look around You can choose Tab Trigger from the drop-down to see the trigger a Trigger is important - you have to be in the right language for the trigger to see, for example, the auto-link thing on the home page video... make sure you're in html, and then type "ref" and then <tab> then you can tab to the two areas of the tag you'd want to edit note - and this is very cool - you can use PHP language snippets in html... just open the php stuff with the tags <?php etc - and within there, php snippets will work
================ = 2005-10-14 Balance Tags = ================
coming from textwrangler - one of the first things i looked for was tag balancing that's where it will highlight all the code between two { } things this is good to make sure you're balancing your tags out
================== = 2005-10-14 Multiple files = ==================
dragging a folder into the textmate icon in the doc will open them with a drawer to see all the files
================================= = 2005-10-19 The Project Drawer = =================================
choose file -> new project to have the file browser appear you can make folders in the project drawer one trick might be to make a single project with many folders that contain all of your text files