Hi All,
I'm really liking TM - it's taking a while to get my non-programmer's head around, but I'm learning lots in the process.
I really like the "Save files when focus is lost" preference (Preferences > Advanced > Saving > Other), but if you haven't saved the file yet (still 'untitled') TextMate has a heart attack when swapping to another program. As an aside I really need to kill dock bouncing already. I think it'd be even better for the file (if not yet saved) to be automatically saved as a temp file, either in a similar way to using command-enter from other programs, or using the first few words of the file as filename in a TextMate folder in Documents. This temp file could then be automatically deleted when the user saves for the first time.
just a thought you probably had already. keep up the great work!
peace - oli
On 10/08/2005, at 4.45, Oli wrote:
[...] "Save files when focus is lost" [...] I think it'd be even better for the file (if not yet saved) to be automatically saved as a temp file
The idea behind the feature is that people who (manually) switch to their test environment (e.g. Safari or Terminal) don't have to also manually save modified files.
I don't see how saving to a temporary file helps anything?!? Better then simply to skip untitled documents (if you dislike the sheets).
[..] in a similar way to using command-enter from other programs
What does command-enter do?
On Aug 11, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 10/08/2005, at 4.45, Oli wrote:
[...] "Save files when focus is lost" [...] I think it'd be even better for the file (if not yet saved) to be automatically saved as a temp file
The idea behind the feature is that people who (manually) switch to their test environment (e.g. Safari or Terminal) don't have to also manually save modified files.
copy that. Great functionality - I wish every program did this by default!
I don't see how saving to a temporary file helps anything?!? Better then simply to skip untitled documents (if you dislike the sheets).
The auto-save feature only works without user intervention after the file has been saved by the user. When a new file hasn't been saved, Textmate doesn't know where to save to, and brings up a save dialog/ bounces the dock icon. I would personally prefer if Textmate either didn't attempt to save "Untitled" documents, or even better saved them to a temp file until the file was saved/given a name by the user [1].
[..] in a similar way to using command-enter from other programs
What does command-enter do?
Select text in any program (Safari form field, Apple Mail, anything) and hit Cmd-Enter. Your text is warped into Textmate, all nicely color-coded, ready for editing. While you're editing the text is in a temp file at /private/var/tmp/folders.502/TemporaryItems/ with the name "Data from <application>.txt". When you're finished, save and close, and Textmate sends the new text back to where it came from, and deletes the temp file. Now while you're editing this text, if Textmate looses focus the auto-save feature still works - your changes are saved to the temp file. I'd like it if Untitled files were also automatically saved as a temp file until the user saves them for the first time, allowing the auto-save feature to operate without user intervention.
Btw, you can also just select any text in say Safari or a PDF and Cmd- Enter to get it into a Textmate file, as long as you remember to immediately Save As... It's a little faster than a copy/change to Textmate/make new file/paste, although if you don't immediately Save As, you'll loose changes when your muscle memory takes over and you mash Cmd-S ;-)
One final point, the Cmd-Enter thing completely locks the application the text came from, which I've found frustrating if you're writing a comment in Safari but want to copy something from another tab. Oh well, I guess that's just a limitation of the method huh.
peace - oli
[1] This comes up in a great article by Matthew Thomas about interface cruft btw - first example 1 page down http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader%24374
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