Hi, I'm just in the process of switching from BBedit... TextMate is a great combination of Mac UI and Unix power :). There are a few things I've found that could be improved:
i) Having all the commands in bundles can make it quite tricky to find things. Not sure how to improve this. I almost want an obvious 'search all commands' command. While browsing the list, I noticed someone else's feature request for a 'what does this key combo do' feature. I'd like to second that. And add a request for an 'open a window with a list of all current key combos' feature.
ii) I'm used to having a shell open. As I move around I might want to either open files in TextMate from the shell, or do something in the shell to a file that is open in TextMate. This leads to two strangenesses: - If you use the 'mate' command in the shell to open a file, then the file doesn't get added to the "Open Recent >" menu. I think it should (perhaps as an option to 'mate', or a preference). - If I already have a shell open, I want to drag the document icon in the window title bar to the shell to get the path to the document (as you can in the finder with folders). Now, I can open a new shell with in the same directory, and I could make a command to copy the path to the current file. I'd kinda like the drag-and-drop OUT of textmate option though. (N.B. you can do this with icons in a project. You just can't do it with an individual file's icon.)
iii) While looking for a solution to the 'drag out of textmate' problem, I searched the list and found that I could drag out of a project. But I already had the file I wanted to edit open. I didn't have a shell in that dir (so I couldn't 'mate .') and I didn't have a Finder window in that dir any more. I couldn't find a way to 'make a new project with a currently open file'. I'm sure I could make a new command to do this pretty quickly, but it seems like something that should already be there, somewhere.
Anyway, thanks for a great product. :)
Will :-}
On Aug 11, 2006, at 6:04 PM, William Uther wrote:
i) Having all the commands in bundles can make it quite tricky to find things. Not sure how to improve this. I almost want an obvious 'search all commands' command.
Something other than Bundles -> Select Bundle Item...?
And add a request for an 'open a window with a list of all current key combos' feature.
Bundles -> TextMate -> Show Keyboard Shortcuts
James Edward Gray II
William Uther wrote:
- If you use the 'mate' command in the shell to open a file, then
the file doesn't get added to the "Open Recent >" menu. I think it should (perhaps as an option to 'mate', or a preference).
``mate -r'' will do the trick. If you'd like to use that by default, simply make an alias:
alias mate="mate -r"
Add that to your ~/.bashrc to make it stick.
Hope that helps, Jeff
Some of these have been mentioned, so I'm repeating a bit here, but ...
On Aug 11, 2006, at 4:04 PM, William Uther wrote:
Hi, I'm just in the process of switching from BBedit... TextMate is a great combination of Mac UI and Unix power :). There are a few things I've found that could be improved:
i) Having all the commands in bundles can make it quite tricky to find things. Not sure how to improve this. I almost want an obvious 'search all commands' command.
That's Ctrl+Cmd+T -- or Bundles -> Select Bundle Item... (as James pointed out)
While browsing the list, I noticed someone else's featurerequest for a 'what does this key combo do' feature. I'd like to second that. And add a request for an 'open a window with a list of all current key combos' feature.
Ctrl+Option+Cmd+K (Bundles -> TextMate -> Show Keyboard Shortcuts
ii) I'm used to having a shell open. As I move around I might want to either open files in TextMate from the shell, or do something in the shell to a file that is open in TextMate. This leads to two strangenesses: - If you use the 'mate' command in the shell to open a file, then the file doesn't get added to the "Open Recent >" menu. I think it should (perhaps as an option to 'mate', or a preference).
mate -r <filename>
(Jeff already described how to make this the default behavior)
- If I already have a shell open, I want to drag the documenticon in the window title bar to the shell to get the path to the document (as you can in the finder with folders). Now, I can open a new shell with in the same directory, and I could make a command to copy the path to the current file. I'd kinda like the drag-and- drop OUT of textmate option though. (N.B. you can do this with icons in a project. You just can't do it with an individual file's icon.)
You can drag the document icon from the window title bar... but the file must be saved to do so (if you have unsaved changes, the file cannot be dragged-- this is consistent with other apps, not a TextMate limitation).
iii) While looking for a solution to the 'drag out of textmate' problem, I searched the list and found that I could drag out of a project. But I already had the file I wanted to edit open. I didn't have a shell in that dir (so I couldn't 'mate .') and I didn't have a Finder window in that dir any more. I couldn't find a way to 'make a new project with a currently open file'. I'm sure I could make a new command to do this pretty quickly, but it seems like something that should already be there, somewhere.
Save the file; create a new project; drag the file's icon from the titlebar into the project drawer; close the original file. But yes, I can see how it would be nice to be able to do that in one step.
-Brad
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