I don't know if I'm using TextMate in a strange way, but: I have an HTML blogging project open with a couple of root folders, and each of those folders have one sub-folder for archive purposes. Every now and then I like to archive posts from the main folder into the sub-folder, but when I do this the sub-folder unfurls - and I really don't want this to happen. Is there any way to stop it? A preference I can check somewhere? Why does it open in the first place; is this behavior useful to some other workflow or language?
Thanks for any thoughts - david
On 10. Feb 2007, at 13:57, David Chartier wrote:
I don't know if I'm using TextMate in a strange way, but: I have an HTML blogging project open with a couple of root folders, and each of those folders have one sub-folder for archive purposes. Every now and then I like to archive posts from the main folder into the sub-folder, but when I do this the sub-folder unfurls - and I really don't want this to happen. Is there any way to stop it? A preference I can check somewhere? Why does it open in the first place; is this behavior useful to some other workflow or language?
I.e. you drag file A into folder A (which is closed at the time) and after the drop, folder A is now open, yet you wanted it to automatically close again, after the drop?
I don’t know if other programs add code to handle this, I am relying on the default behavior of the outline view.
If one wanted to drop the file into a more deeply nested folder (within the top level folder), this sort of "spring loaded" behavior might be useful. If you only want the file to be dropped into the top level folder, reveal its contents is *not* useful.
I have seen some implementations where this conflict is addressed by offering a (user settable) delay for having the folder pop open. So if you pause over the folder, it will open but if you drop the file quickly it will not.
eo
On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 10. Feb 2007, at 13:57, David Chartier wrote:
I don't know if I'm using TextMate in a strange way, but: I have an HTML blogging project open with a couple of root folders, and each of those folders have one sub-folder for archive purposes. Every now and then I like to archive posts from the main folder into the sub-folder, but when I do this the sub-folder unfurls - and I really don't want this to happen. Is there any way to stop it? A preference I can check somewhere? Why does it open in the first place; is this behavior useful to some other workflow or language?
I.e. you drag file A into folder A (which is closed at the time) and after the drop, folder A is now open, yet you wanted it to automatically close again, after the drop?
I don’t know if other programs add code to handle this, I am relying on the default behavior of the outline view.
On 11. Feb 2007, at 18:49, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 10. Feb 2007, at 13:57, David Chartier wrote:
I don't know if I'm using TextMate in a strange way, but: I have an HTML blogging project open with a couple of root folders, and each of those folders have one sub-folder for archive purposes. Every now and then I like to archive posts from the main folder into the sub-folder, but when I do this the sub-folder unfurls - and I really don't want this to happen. Is there any way to stop it? A preference I can check somewhere? Why does it open in the first place; is this behavior useful to some other workflow or language?
I.e. you drag file A into folder A (which is closed at the time) and after the drop, folder A is now open, yet you wanted it to automatically close again, after the drop?
I don’t know if other programs add code to handle this, I am relying on the default behavior of the outline view.
Coincidentally I stumbled upon an undocumented way to change the default behavior of the outline view.
To get it to close the group, after a drop, run this command in terminal:
defaults write -g NSRequireAutoCollapseOutlineAfterDropsDefault - bool yes
This will change it system-wide. You can use ‘com.macromates.textmate’ instead of -g, to make it only behave this way in TextMate.
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