TextMate shows the current line that contains the cursor by highlighting the entire line. I like this because it makes finding the cursor easy when I come back to a TextMate window.
But it gets short circuited by Find which highlights the found text, but removes the "whole line highlight". Consequently, it takes more effort to find where the selection/cursor jumped to upon finding text.
My request is that selecting text within a line would retain the "whole line highlight".
-Chuck
I've noticed the same thing, Chuck. I've forced myself into the habit of pressing command+shift+L after searching to highlight the current line and bring attention to the new cursor location.
Tyler
On 5/23/07, Chuck Esterbrook chuck.esterbrook@gmail.com wrote:
TextMate shows the current line that contains the cursor by highlighting the entire line. I like this because it makes finding the cursor easy when I come back to a TextMate window.
But it gets short circuited by Find which highlights the found text, but removes the "whole line highlight". Consequently, it takes more effort to find where the selection/cursor jumped to upon finding text.
My request is that selecting text within a line would retain the "whole line highlight".
-Chuck
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On 23. May 2007, at 18:19, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
TextMate shows the current line that contains the cursor by highlighting the entire line [...] But it gets short circuited by Find which highlights the found text
See the following ticket for my comments:
Tyler, that's a nice tip. Thanks!
Allan, thanks for the ticket URL in your response.
-Chuck
On 5/23/07, Tyler Hall tylerhall@gmail.com wrote:
I've noticed the same thing, Chuck. I've forced myself into the habit of pressing command+shift+L after searching to highlight the current line and bring attention to the new cursor location.
Tyler
On 5/23/07, Chuck Esterbrook chuck.esterbrook@gmail.com wrote:
TextMate shows the current line that contains the cursor by highlighting the entire line. I like this because it makes finding the cursor easy when I come back to a TextMate window.
But it gets short circuited by Find which highlights the found text, but removes the "whole line highlight". Consequently, it takes more effort to find where the selection/cursor jumped to upon finding text.
My request is that selecting text within a line would retain the "whole line highlight".
-Chuck
For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
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On Fri, 25 May 2007, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
On 5/23/07, Tyler Hall tylerhall@gmail.com wrote:
I've noticed the same thing, Chuck. I've forced myself into the habit of pressing command+shift+L after searching to highlight the current line and bring attention to the new cursor location.
Tyler, that's a nice tip. Thanks!
I do something similar with a "Select Nothing" macro:
moveRightAndModifySelection: (shift-right-arrow)) moveLeft: (left-arrow)
This simply deselects the region, leaving the cursor at the beginning of that region. I have this bound to the ESC key, since that's what I'm used to from other editors. I also make heavy use of column (block) selections, and it just feels awkward to make a stream selection, change it to a column selection, then modify the selected area. So I have a "Start Block Selection" macro bound to ^B which does the first two steps at once.
moveRightAndModifySelection: (shift-right-arrow)) toggleColumnSelection: (option)
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