Wow--I use TextPad daily on my PC at work and always wished there was a text editor like it for the Mac where I could easily switch between documents with tabs. And the ability to call a shell script to do a word count or any other UNIX command and have the output appear as a tooltip, new window, or whatever you want--brilliant, and really easy to use. This is probably the first time I've wished TextPad could do some things a Mac editor can do, and not vice versa.
There's only one seemingly minor thing that's keeping me from buying TextMate right now and retiring Tex-Edit Plus--TextMate's auto-identing feature, where if I have a paragraph of text (not code), it automatically inserts a tab on the next line when I hit return. This drives me nuts because while I use my Mac editor for HTML at times, I mainly use it to write documents that have normal indented paragraphs of text. At the end of a paragraph in a word processor or email program I'm conditioned to hit return, then hit tab for the next paragraph--so having TextMate indent the next paragraph automatically just means I end up with two tabs.
Does anyone know if there's a way to turn off auto-indenting of new lines, or is that a feature being considered for a future release? If there is a way to turn that off and I just can't find it, I apologize for being an idiot in advance...anyway, thanks to the developer for creating this, keep up the good work,
-Brian
On Jan 7, 2005, at 6:29, Brian Smith wrote:
[...] I'm conditioned to hit return, then hit tab for the next paragraph--so having TextMate indent the next paragraph automatically just means I end up with two tabs.
Interesting! Before the release I asked in #macdev if anyone could provide me with a reason to allow disabling of auto indent -- everyone was opposed to removing that option (coders generally want options even for stuff they would never use ;) ), but none could give me an example in which it was useful (to disable it), so I removed it.
Three months have passed, and this is the first I hear about the option missing :)
Does anyone know if there's a way to turn off auto-indenting of new lines
You can disable auto indent. But you'll need to quit TextMate and open up Terminal.app and paste this (one line):
defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakTextViewAutoIndentEnabled -bool NO
Then it will be disabled (the next time you start TM). To enable it again you'll need to do the same, but this time with YES.
[...] thanks to the developer for creating this, keep up the good work,
You're welcome, and I'll do my best! :)
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