27 Aug
2019
27 Aug
'19
11:54 a.m.
Nice to see Touch Bar improvements: Thank you!
Be nice if the "open recent project" touch bar button _closed_ this window if
touched while window is already open.
Can touch bar icons respond to which window is frontmost?
If so, it would be helpful when the Find window is frontmost, to have
1. A touch icon for the "regex" check box (what is the short cut for that?)
2. Tie the “<" and “>" touch icons to window "previous" and
"next" buttons.
Having a touch icon to select surrounding braces {} for selecting surrounding braces would
be useful.
Having touch icons for "the Ts" would be helpful:
1. a touch bar icon ("fun”?) for cmd-cntr-T ("Select bundle item")
2. a touch bar icon "TODO" for cntrl-shift-T (TODO list)
3. a touch bar icon "symbol" for cmd-shift-T (symbol jump)
Best, tim
On 18 Aug 2019, at 16:49, Ronald Wampler
<rdwampler(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 6:14 PM Curt Sellmer <sellmerfud(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have been playing with the touchbar support in texmate and have noticed the following.
If I set bookmarks in my document the touchbar buttons with up/down chevrons will
correctly take me to the previous or next bookmark respectively.
However, if I make a change to the document and save it. I now get a change marker
showing that it is different than what is in the git repository. That is to be expected.
But now the up/down buttons on the touchbar stop at all of the git markers as well as the
bookmarks. Is this by design?
Yeah, I wanted to make it easier to navigate other marks (not necessary
the git markers) without adding yet another up/down arrows button in the Touch
Bar. But, I agree it probably should have been just to navigate the bookmarks.
I'll submit a PR to change the behavior.
It makes jumping back and forth between a couple
of bookmarks painful if there are a lot of edits in the file.
I can still hold down the fn button and use F2/Shift F2 to achieve this, but that sort of
defeats the purpose of having the nifty touch bar buttons.
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11 May
11 May
1:07 a.m.
On 27 Aug 2019, at 18:54, Tim Bates wrote:
Nice to see Touch Bar improvements: Thank you!
All work regarding this is done by Ronald Wampler. Personally I do not
yet have a machine with touch bar (I know there is a simulator, but on
the list of things to work on, I’m afraid touch bar is pretty low).
If so, it would be helpful when the Find window is
frontmost, to have
1. A touch icon for the "regex" check box (what is the short cut for
that?)
Shortcut for toggling regular expression is ⌥⌘R.
FYI the shortcuts are listed in the Edit → Find → Find Options
submenu, although probably not easy to discover.
15 May
15 May
11:49 a.m.
On 11 May 2020, at 02:07, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist(a)textmate.org> wrote:
On 27 Aug 2019, at 18:54, Tim Bates wrote:
Thanks,
Adding tooltips to the find dialog and elsewhere would fix this and make like much easier
for many users like me who haven’t discovered these.
t
Nice to see Touch Bar improvements: Thank you!
All work regarding this is done by Ronald Wampler. Personally I do not yet have a
machine with touch bar (I know there is a simulator, but on the list of things to work on,
I’m afraid touch bar is pretty low).
If so, it would be helpful when the Find window
is frontmost, to have
1. A touch icon for the "regex" check box (what is the short cut for that?)
Shortcut for toggling regular expression is ⌥⌘R.
FYI the shortcuts are listed in the Edit → Find → Find Options submenu, although probably
not easy to discover. 
3:18 p.m.
Just thinking out loud here:
What about that thing some editors do where they put a new tip on new
documents? Anything to improve discoverability of these sorts of
features.
That sort of thing would require an extra layer of rendering for
documents, right? Maybe if that feature were added it could be used for
other features, like (although I'm not personally a fan of this) how
other editors can show you the [blame for current line on the
line](https://dcv19h61vib2d.cloudfront.net/thumbs/scikit-learn-get-git-blam…
Cheers,
Graham
On 15 May 2020, at 6:49, Timothy Bates wrote:
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On 11 May 2020, at 02:07, Allan Odgaard
<mailinglist(a)textmate.org>
wrote:
On 27 Aug 2019, at 18:54, Tim Bates wrote:
Thanks,
Adding tooltips to the find dialog and elsewhere would fix this and
make like much easier for many users like me who haven’t discovered
these.
t
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https://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate Nice to see Touch Bar improvements: Thank you!
All work regarding this is done by Ronald Wampler. Personally I do
not yet have a machine with touch bar (I know there is a simulator,
but on the list of things to work on, I’m afraid touch bar is
pretty low).
If so, it would be helpful when the Find window
is frontmost, to
have
1. A touch icon for the "regex" check box (what is the short cut
for that?)
Shortcut for toggling regular expression is ⌥⌘R.
FYI the shortcuts are listed in the Edit → Find → Find Options
submenu, although probably not easy to discover.
16 May
16 May
2:07 a.m.
On 15 May 2020, at 22:18, Graham Heath wrote:
Just thinking out loud here:
What about that thing some editors do where they put a new tip on new
documents? Anything to improve discoverability of these sorts of
features.
TextMate 1 actually had a “tip of the day” which some have said they
missed (I did it back then to compensate for lack of a manual).
For keyboard shortcuts though, I think the aim should be to have them
present somewhere, not as “tips”, for example if you open the pop-up
menus in the Find window, you see several convenient keys, like the
“in” pop-up menu show ⌘F / ⇧⌘F to toggle between
document/folder search, ⌘[ for [back in] “recent places”, ⌘↑
for “enclosing folder”, and the action pop-up show ⌥⌘1 to
collapse/expand all results (same shortcut as collapsing foldings),
⌘1-⌘n to jump to the n’th file in folder search results, and the
Edit → Find menu show the keys for toggling find options, and ⌥⌘F
for “Find All” (using that with a document search will show all
results in the find dialog’s list view).
Though currently there is still lack of discoverability in how to use
some of the features, for example the “Copy Matching Parts” can be
extremely useful, but I reckon many users are probably unaware of it,
and doing regular expression searches allow some pretty powerful
replacements with TextMate’s replacement format string (which allow
substitutions in matched parts), or when it is useful to use ⌘E with
multiple selections before doing a search, etc.
But for this, I think we need screencasts to show workflows, not just
put up a tip.
So what I have been thinking about is to re-introduce the tip of the
day, but with embedded videos.
Right now though my focus is elsewhere, but (lack of) discoverability is
definitely on my mind, as I do think many users are missing a lot of
powerful features / workflows, especially with stuff “hidden” away
in the bundles.
On that note, while I have never been satisfied with the bundle editor
of TextMate 2, it has recently become obvious to me that it affects my
own motivation to fix/improve bundle items: This definitely needs to
improve.
23 May
23 May
10 a.m.
On 16 May 2020, at 03:07, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist(a)textmate.org> wrote:
For keyboard shortcuts though, I think the aim should
be to have them present somewhere, not as “tips”
There’s some blank space to the right of the "options” block of the ⇧⌘F window. Could
append the key to the label:
Regular Expression (⌥⌘R) Ignore Whitespace
Ignore Case (⌥⌘C) Wrap around (⌥⌘A)
(but honestly, a tool-tip is the way to go: the user never accidentally hovers over
buttons, and hover-to-learn is instantly memorable without cluttering the display)
For example if you open the pop-up menus in the Find
window, you see several convenient keys, like the “in” pop-up menu show ⌘F / ⇧⌘F to toggle
between document/folder search, ⌘[ for [back in] “recent places”, ⌘↑ for “enclosing
folder”, and the action pop-up show ⌥⌘1 to collapse/expand all results (same shortcut as
collapsing foldings), ⌘1-⌘n to jump to the n’th file in folder search results, and the
Edit → Find menu show the keys for toggling find options, and ⌥⌘F for “Find All” (using
that with a document search will show all results in the find dialog’s list view).
All that information would fit nicely in a “tips" file, which could be added as a 4th
column in the "Textmate:About Textmate” window. If it was a git markdown file, it
could also be maintained/updated by users.
Though currently there is still lack of
discoverability in how to use some of the features, for example the “Copy Matching Parts”
can be extremely useful, but I reckon many users are probably unaware of it, and doing
regular expression searches allow some pretty powerful replacements with TextMate’s
replacement format string (which allow substitutions in matched parts), or when it is
useful to use ⌘E with multiple selections before doing a search, etc.
But for this, I think we need screencasts to show workflows, not just put up a tip.
Agreed: Those are complex ideas and a screencast would be great!… I’ve been intrigued
reading these options, but saw no way to discover they are or how they would be useful.
Perhaps offer a $100 prize for the best screencast uploaded to youtube or similar, and
using everything in the find window, inc. arcana like "Copy matching Parts” etc. If
one is shy: screencasts with sub titles work nicely and don’t require voice
over/synching.
So what I have been thinking about is to re-introduce
the tip of the day, but with embedded videos.
Feels like two projects here, One
“perfect" (textmate video channel with 100s of items) the other merely useful (4th
column called “tips” after the About, Changes, Bundles tabs in the about box which shows
up on each new beta.)
On that note, while I have never been satisfied with
the bundle editor of TextMate 2, it has recently become obvious to me that it affects my
own motivation to fix/improve bundle items: This definitely needs to improve.
Three cheers! LOVE to see this happen! Even the ability to drag items instead of editing
UUIDs in plists would be massive!
PS: using the cmd-[ shortcut in the find dialog > 20 times a day! big time saver.
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