The latest beta of MarsEdit includes Edit with Textmate support:
This is just a small update, an internal-only build, mainly for people who want to use TextMate.
Other changes -- customizable ping list and Markdown preview support -- are still en route, they're just not ready yet.
Changes:
*** Edit with TextMate
Edit with TextMate now appears in the File. ctrl-cmd-J. The feature requires TextMate 1.0.2b3 or better.
There appears to be a TextMate bug regarding character encoding. I use the exact same code for TextMate as for BBEdit and SubEthaEdit -- but TextMate turns curly quotes (and so on) into weird characters. Either there's something I need to set in TextMate (that I couldn't find) or there's a TextMate bug. If someone who's in touch with the TextMate folks want to get the skinny on this, that would be appreciated.
On 8. Nov 2004, at 2:06, Chris Messina wrote:
There appears to be a TextMate bug regarding character encoding. I use the exact same code for TextMate as for BBEdit and SubEthaEdit -- but TextMate turns curly quotes (and so on) into weird characters. [...]
And what encoding would that be? My guess is that it's MacRoman, which several programs defaults to, but TextMate doesn't, here's what it does:
1) check if text is ASCII, no encoding 2) check if text has BOM, use UTF-8, UTF-16 LE/BE based on BOM 3) check if text is valid UTF-8, use UTF-8 if so 4) use frequency counts to decide between CP-1252, MacRoman, and iso-8859-1.
So I'd suggest that MarsEdit use UTF-8 and place a BOM in the beginning of the text. This should also work with BBEdit and SubEthaEdit.
Or alternatively, let me know how I can “get” the encoding that MarsEdit uses ;)
I could update my frequencies to improve #4, but today everything really ought to be in UTF-8, even w/o the BOM this is easily detectable unlike the other 8 bit encodings!
I've cc'ed this letter to info@ranchero.com
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Chris Messina