I had my first go at creating a template last night. It was fairly miserable. Even just using what TextMate creates automatically resulted in a "dead" template that does nothing upon hitting test or the assigned key combination. I copied an existing template and made modifications to no avail. Is there a tutorial that goes beyond the docs or is there something I'm missing?
Thanks, Brett
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On 10. Nov 2006, at 11:04, Brett Terpstra wrote:
I had my first go at creating a template last night. It was fairly miserable. Even just using what TextMate creates automatically resulted in a "dead" template that does nothing upon hitting test or the assigned key combination. I copied an existing template and made modifications to no avail. Is there a tutorial that goes beyond the docs or is there something I'm missing?
After creating the template, you also need to select “New Template File” with the template selected -- ideally these two operations should of course be grouped.
Did that. I recreated everything exactly, down to double checking the perl command that substitutes the variables in the template. If I just remove the perl command I can get it to put up a blank file (in the right format) but I can't get it to read it through the perl command. I'm trying a few things right now, but is there any way to debug?
Thanks, Brett
On Nov 10, 2006, at 5:14 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 10. Nov 2006, at 11:04, Brett Terpstra wrote:
I had my first go at creating a template last night. It was fairly miserable. Even just using what TextMate creates automatically resulted in a "dead" template that does nothing upon hitting test or the assigned key combination. I copied an existing template and made modifications to no avail. Is there a tutorial that goes beyond the docs or is there something I'm missing?
After creating the template, you also need to select “New Template File” with the template selected -- ideally these two operations should of course be grouped.
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Weird. Closing the bundle editor made it work. I had previously tried just switching to a different command and back but now it seems to be working fine.
Now is there any way to take input from a user before creating the template? I'd like to have it ask for: Project Name Client Name image file base name
It names about 8 parts of the file based on this information and I currently have a command set to do search and replace after opening the file. Just wondering if there's an easier way.
Thanks, Brett
On Nov 10, 2006, at 5:36 AM, Brett Terpstra wrote:
Did that. I recreated everything exactly, down to double checking the perl command that substitutes the variables in the template. If I just remove the perl command I can get it to put up a blank file (in the right format) but I can't get it to read it through the perl command. I'm trying a few things right now, but is there any way to debug?
Thanks, Brett
On Nov 10, 2006, at 5:14 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 10. Nov 2006, at 11:04, Brett Terpstra wrote:
I had my first go at creating a template last night. It was fairly miserable. Even just using what TextMate creates automatically resulted in a "dead" template that does nothing upon hitting test or the assigned key combination. I copied an existing template and made modifications to no avail. Is there a tutorial that goes beyond the docs or is there something I'm missing?
After creating the template, you also need to select “New Template File” with the template selected -- ideally these two operations should of course be grouped.
_ For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
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On 10. Nov 2006, at 12:47, Brett Terpstra wrote:
Weird. Closing the bundle editor made it work. I had previously tried just switching to a different command and back but now it seems to be working fine.
Ah yes, for a template it needs to flush to disk, since the command is dependent on the template file being there on disk.
Now is there any way to take input from a user before creating the template? I'd like to have it ask for: [...]
Yes, you can take input exactly as with a normal command, as of such, this is a normal command with fixed input/output.
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