With the recent introduction of Apple's Pages software I have been reading a slew of reviews that point out it's short-comings however this has also prompted people to write in solutions for them. I have discovered some very nice services (that will of course work in Textmate as well) so I wanted to start a discussion on what services do you use (perhaps not use do to stability issues) and can not live without.
Here is one that I think I will be using quite often:
http://www.nisus.com/Thesaurus/
Looking forward to some new toy : )
Eric C
On Jan 31, 2005, at 19:30, Eric Curtis wrote:
I took the opportunity to mention this on the TextMate blog:
http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2005/01/31/textmate-service-works- with-pages/
If some of you have the chance to comment on these Pages short-comings articles, please feel free to direct people toward my blog! :)
Btw: if you haven't noticed, I've started (well, started from beta 3) to make a more in-depth description of the highlights of each beta. So hopefully it's a nice read for TextMate users. Beta 4 is scheduled for tonight, and I can't wait writing the entry demo'ing the new output option! :)
As my previous email suggested I am currently playing with Apple Services and I ran across an intriguing program that does not seem to work 100% in TM.
The program is IceCoffee and it adds a service menu to the menu bar and contextual menu. However the contextual menu does not appear in TM. Does anyone have this working or is it just a shortcoming of the program?
Thanks,
Eric
PS. the url for checking it out is:
Funny you wrote this today. I'm long time IceCoffee user, I use it to launch url in plain text documents by command clicking on them. Every time I try it in TM, I remember it doesn't work and plan to write about it, but forget. Today I wrote the email and saw yours just before sending it... ;)
So, +1.
-- Fred
On 1 févr. 05, at 19:11, Eric Curtis wrote:
Perhaps I am doing something wrong put when I highlight a chunk of text and execute the service nothing happens...
Probably user error but what would it be?
Thanks,
Eric C
On Feb 1, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Eric Curtis wrote:
Is it possible IceCoffee only works with standard Cocoa text areas (NSSomethingOrOther)? TM's text area is home-grown.
On Feb 2, 2005, at 2:55, Fred B. wrote:
I thought it was the TextMate service. With regard to ICeCoffEE, this seems to be an NSTextView patch, so as Brian said, this won't work with TextMate.
I haven't looked at the functionality it provides, but I should allow commands to appear in the context menu (I think this has even been requested ;) ), that way we could probably re-create the functionality of this patch.
For now, to get sort of a context menu with commands, just give all the commands the same hotkey, then pressing this key will show a context menu.
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