19 May
2006
19 May
'06
7:14 p.m.
First thanks to everyone who replied to my previous question.
I'm noticing a very odd behavior when I try to delete whitespace
between two tags. Most (if not all) other text editors will select
just the whitespace when I double-click on the whitespace area.
However TextMate likes to also select the closing/opening bracket/
braces - which of course I don't want to delete.
So if I wanted to delete the space between <p>Hello </p>
I can't double-click on the whitespace between "Hello" and
"</p>"
without TextMate also selecting the "</" in the closing
"</p>" tag.
Another example is if I have a closing brace "}" that is indented too
much and I want to line it up with its opening brace, I can no longer
double-click on the whitespace to the left of the brace without the
brace also being selected. In fact I wasted 15 minutes or so trying
to figure out how I broke a PHP script before it dawned on me that
when I deleted the whitespace I also deleted a brace.
Is there any preference or setting that changes this odd behavior?
I'm assuming TextMate does this for a reason, but I'm scratching my
head as to how this editing mode would be useful.
thanks in advance!
brian
22 May
22 May
1:24 p.m.
On May 19, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 19/5/2006, at 21:14, Brian Tully wrote:
Thanks a bunch for the response, Allan.
You can probably guess my next question -- do you have an ETA on when
this might be fixed/implemented?
regards,
brian
[...] Is there any preference or setting that
changes this odd
behavior? [...]
No -- TM will select either all word chars or all non-word chars.
Smarter behavior is however a noted request.
1:44 p.m.
On May 22, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Brian Tully wrote:
On May 19, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
Actually I think I figured out a workaround by adding some common
open and closing tags to the "Word Characters" Text Editing
preference -- so I'll see how that works out.
regards,
brian
On 19/5/2006, at 21:14, Brian Tully wrote:
Thanks a bunch for the response, Allan.
You can probably guess my next question -- do you have an ETA on
when this might be fixed/implemented? [...] Is there any preference or setting that
changes this odd
behavior? [...]
No -- TM will select either all word chars or all non-word chars.
Smarter behavior is however a noted request.
13 Jun
13 Jun
7:15 p.m.
New subject: Odd selection behavior / Word Characters advice?
On May 19, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 19/5/2006, at 21:14, Brian Tully wrote:
Well, I thought by adding certain characters to TM's Word Characters
preference that I'd be able to cope with the odd selection behavior
when double-clicking on a selection. But truth be told I'm still
having a frustrating experience with TM's selection behavior.
I'm assuming that others are coping much better than me, and that
perhaps they have figured out a "magical" list of word characters to
add to TM's Word Characters preference.
If so, would you be so kind as to post your list?
Maybe we can compile a "greatest hits" until the smarter behavior is
implemented.
many thanks in advance!
regards,
brian
[...] Is there any preference or setting that
changes this odd
behavior? [...]
No -- TM will select either all word chars or all non-word chars.
Smarter behavior is however a noted request.
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