I have a project with about 500 files that split neatly into a few categories. Is there some way to split the project drawer or otherwise get two separate scrolling views of different subsections of the project?
And/or can one get a multi-pane hierarchical view (like one of the Finder views)?
It looks like Go to File... will often be the quickest way to open a file, but sometimes I'll have to manually hunt through the hierarchy and some hints on how best to wade through it would be much appreciated.
-- Russell
On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote:
I have a project with about 500 files that split neatly into a few categories. Is there some way to split the project drawer or otherwise get two separate scrolling views of different subsections of the project?
And/or can one get a multi-pane hierarchical view (like one of the Finder views)?
It looks like Go to File... will often be the quickest way to open a file, but sometimes I'll have to manually hunt through the hierarchy and some hints on how best to wade through it would be much appreciated.
-- Russell
You can't currently do anything nearly so complex. You CAN make groups of files, however.
Just select a few files and the "group this stuff" command is it the little widget menu at the bottom of the drawer.
This can actually speed textmate up quite a bit if you're working on a remote volume.
In article 90FE8662-BB5C-4DE0-9166-6DCD4B158394@gmail.com, thomas Aylott thomas.42@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 27, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote:
I have a project with about 500 files that split neatly into a few categories. Is there some way to split the project drawer or otherwise get two separate scrolling views of different subsections of the project?
And/or can one get a multi-pane hierarchical view (like one of the Finder views)?
It looks like Go to File... will often be the quickest way to open a file, but sometimes I'll have to manually hunt through the hierarchy and some hints on how best to wade through it would be much appreciated.
-- Russell
You can't currently do anything nearly so complex. You CAN make groups of files, however.
Just select a few files and the "group this stuff" command is it the little widget menu at the bottom of the drawer.
This can actually speed textmate up quite a bit if you're working on a remote volume.
They are already grouped in some sense, because the project is a live view of a directory (a really nice TextMate feature!), and the two main subprojects are directories in that main directory.
The problem is that if I dig down into one of the first subproject directories, the list of files gets so long that the second subproject directory is pushed way down and becomes very hard to find.
With a split pane, I could expand each subproject in its own separately scrolled pane.
(I did try grouping anyway, since I didn't know about it, but it was grayed out -- I'm guessing it only works for projects that consist of an explicit set of files, rather than a live view of a folder).
-- Russell
On 29/3/2006, at 20:03, Russell E. Owen wrote:
(I did try grouping anyway, since I didn't know about it, but it was grayed out -- I'm guessing it only works for projects that consist of an explicit set of files, rather than a live view of a folder).
Yes -- initially (before 1.0) TM only supported adding single files and grouping these files. Then folder references were added, which was a bit of an afterthought to be honest, but really the much better approach.
2.0 will have an improved file browser where one can descend into a folder, which makes it much easer to focus on a single group (sub folder).
As for splitting, I have yet to add this (so no promises about the actual result), but I strive for having the file browser, the text editing view, and the HTML output window all 3 components which can be docked into a main window, teared off, and duplicated as the user desires, so one can mix and match these things in one or more windows -- but as said, I have yet to actually implement this splitting functionality, my main problem currently is with the (visual) interface to this (I don’t want to end up having half a dozen knobs here and there to support this, and I also have some aesthetic alignment issues).
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