Hi, I'm used to TextMate with Full-screen, which is offered by SIMBL, but when in full-screen, the drawer disappears for the screen. In fact, it is still there, but moved to the other ede of the other screen (yes, i have dual-screen). To fix it, I've installed the Plugin from Hetima "The Missing Drawer" which basically includes the drawer into the main panel. But it is realy not convenient when the drawer is not needed, cause I haven't found how to make it disappear...
Whatever, this led me to a feature request: a floating drawer. Is there a way to have one? Even better, has anyone already built a plugin or something for that purpose?
What do you think of it? A floating drawer, accessible via a shortcut, controlled and navigated from the keyboard, would you take benefit of this feature?
Xavier Cambar
Le 3 mai 07 à 13:39, Allan Odgaard a écrit :
Have you tried ⌘T?
Yes, I did, and it's quite unappropriate because it displays an unordered listing of files. Well, in fact it displays an alphanumerically ordered one, but what I was talking about was more a tree list of files, so I can navigate files and folders for the right item and maintain a coherent mental perception of it.
It's quite perturbating to move from a navigating system to another, and this is what ⌘T provides, for someone used to the drawer.
My proposal is: a project drawer embedded in a separate window/panel.
On May 3, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Xavier Cambar wrote:
Le 3 mai 07 à 13:39, Allan Odgaard a écrit :
Have you tried ⌘T?
Yes, I did, and it's quite unappropriate because it displays an unordered listing of files. Well, in fact it displays an alphanumerically ordered one, but what I was talking about was more a tree list of files, so I can navigate files and folders for the right item and maintain a coherent mental perception of it.
It's quite perturbating to move from a navigating system to another, and this is what ⌘T provides, for someone used to the drawer.
Yeah, ⌘T is provided as a filter, not a browser. For occasional browsing with megazoomer perhaps switching on and off via ⌘↩ would be the closest solution as of today.
-- fxn
On May 3, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Xavier Noria wrote:
On May 3, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Xavier Cambar wrote:
Le 3 mai 07 à 13:39, Allan Odgaard a écrit :
Have you tried ⌘T?
Yes, I did, and it's quite unappropriate because it displays an unordered listing of files. Well, in fact it displays an alphanumerically ordered one, but what I was talking about was more a tree list of files, so I can navigate files and folders for the right item and maintain a coherent mental perception of it.
It's quite perturbating to move from a navigating system to another, and this is what ⌘T provides, for someone used to the drawer.
Yeah, ⌘T is provided as a filter, not a browser. For occasional browsing with megazoomer perhaps switching on and off via ⌘↩ would be the closest solution as of today.
-- fxn
Speaking of editing in full screen mode with megazoomer, how do you get the ⌘↩ to zoom the window properly? Whenever I try it, I just get a return entered in the text I'm currently editing. By the way, I think a floating drawer would be a great idea.
Thanks,
Michael
On May 3, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
Speaking of editing in full screen mode with megazoomer, how do you get the ⌘↩ to zoom the window properly? Whenever I try it, I just get a return entered in the text I'm currently editing. By the way, I think a floating drawer would be a great idea.
There's a macro of the Source bundle bounded to ⌘↩, I don't use that macro so I just delete it.
-- fxn
Hi Xavier,
It's quite perturbating to move from a navigating system to another, and this is what ⌘T provides, for someone used to the drawer.
My proposal is: a project drawer embedded in a separate window/panel.
From what I understand, the drawer is going to be seeing an overhaul on TextMate 2.0 (ETA is sometime *after* the Leopard release).
Until then, you've got to work with what you have.
If you want my opinion, though, I'd suggest to just not use TextMate in some hacked Full Screen mode ... "Full Screen"-edness is something that's waaaayyy too overrated, anyway ;-)
-steve
Le 3 mai 07 à 16:29, Steve Lianoglou a écrit :
If you want my opinion, though, I'd suggest to just not use TextMate in some hacked Full Screen mode ... "Full Screen"-edness is something that's waaaayyy too overrated, anyway ;-)
-steve
Generally speaking, I agree. But as many of us using TM in a professional way (ok, I'm still a student, let's call this "professional"...), I intend to work in an environment as much distraction-free as possible. And, in my opinion, full-screen windowing can be helpful sometines to achieve this goal, specifically with ext-editing apps.
Xavier
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