Hey,
Thanks for a really neat product. I'm still messing about with it, but I think it's a keeper.
I've noticed some things, though --
Odd help behaviour: the tooltip that appears when you hover over the Commands textarea says that you can use the purple help icon to get a full list of TextMate's exported variables, but that just goes to the Commands reference page instead. There's a small link to the list of variables, sure, but maybe the list of variables belongs on that page too? (or it should link there as advertised, instead?)
Also, why does selecting Help *from the Help menu,* while the commands window is open, mean that it goes to that page? I understand that context is cool, but I expect to find that choosing '(AppName) Help' from the Help menu would take me to the app's help index page.
Second: the whole dealie about the preferences window has been discussed, it seems, but it's also something I miss. While there's nothing that really *has* to be in a preference window, it seems logical to me that per-document options ought to be kept well away from the permanent ones.
Third, I'm not sure if it's my own font problems or not, but I've never noticed it any other place -- when I'm using any bitmap font the first character in a line has a larger gap between it and the next character. You can see this in action here: http://www.raena.net/images/gappy.gif
Fourth, why is Page Up and Down moving the insertion point? Can one change that at all?
And finally, I'm not really concerned with (s)ftp support myself since I prefer to use Transmit, but does anyone know how i can tell Transmit to make TextMate available in its list of external editors? Can that be done at all?
On 8. Oct 2004, at 15:16, Raena Armitage wrote:
Odd help behaviour: the tooltip that appears when you hover over the Commands textarea says that you can use the purple help icon to get a full list of TextMate's exported variables, but that just goes to the Commands reference page instead. There's a small link to the list of variables, sure, but maybe the list of variables belongs on that page too? (or it should link there as advertised, instead?)
Yes, I think I'll change text of the tool tip, since the commands help page really should be the one linked, and the environment variables are present in all shell contexts, so it needs to be on a separate page (but I can make the link from the commands page at the top and more prominent.)
Also, why does selecting Help *from the Help menu,* while the commands window is open, mean that it goes to that page? [...]
That's a bug (which I was unaware of).
Third, I'm not sure if it's my own font problems or not, but I've never noticed it any other place -- when I'm using any bitmap font the first character in a line has a larger gap between it and the next character. You can see this in action here:
By default ATSUI uses the fractional glyph widths for advancement. I *think* this might be the problem here (NSLayoutManager use rounded numbers for glyph advancement). It would be nice if you could send me the font -- eventually I'll switch to NSLayoutManager font rendering, but in the meantime I'll try to tweak ATSUI for optimal on-screen display.
Fourth, why is Page Up and Down moving the insertion point? Can one change that at all?
Yes -- Help / Key Bindings tells how to make a local copy of the key bindings file, this file contains: "\UF72C" = "movePageUp:"; "\UF72D" = "movePageDown:";
Change these to: "\UF72C" = "scrollPageUp:"; "\UF72D" = "scrollPageDown:";
And then it'll only move the scroll bar.
And finally, I'm not really concerned with (s)ftp support myself since I prefer to use Transmit, but does anyone know how i can tell Transmit to make TextMate available in its list of external editors? Can that be done at all?
Probably Transmit should be able to download a copy of a document and open it with TextMate (I'm not a Transmit user, so I can't say), but TextMate doesn't (currently) support the BBEdit editor interface, so saving the file from TextMate won't notify Transmit -- but we'll add support for this interface in the future.
Kind regards Allan
On 09/10/2004, at 1:07 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
By default ATSUI uses the fractional glyph widths for advancement. I *think* this might be the problem here (NSLayoutManager use rounded numbers for glyph advancement). It would be nice if you could send me the font -- eventually I'll switch to NSLayoutManager font rendering, but in the meantime I'll try to tweak ATSUI for optimal on-screen display.
That one was just Monaco, which you'd have already (email coming off list). Some other fonts exhibit the behaviour at other sizes; sometimes not at all. It never seems to happen with antialiased fonts, though.
Meanwhile, thanks a heap for the key binding tip. That said, it's still not consistent with how Mac apps usually work.
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Allan Odgaard -
Raena Armitage