Hi
as posted yesterday Im new to Textmate. So like any other 'beginner' I stuck to the screencasts first, trying to adopt what is shown there.
Yesterday I posted that self-closing tags wont be done by the key- command [crtl] + < Akos kindly answered today I have to set a new variable for this action.
This has not been shown in the screencast.
Now Im trying to autocomplete the insertion of a doctype, but again no shortcut will bring what is shown in the screencast.
A.) Have features changed since the screencasts have been recorded?
This is kind of confusing ... because screencasts are meant to beginners.
B.) Is it possible to have more screencasts in general to bring the folks into stuff? That woud be great, so learning by watching is quite more confortable and faster.
(And I guess its even faster for the authors to record a screencast on certain issues rather than writing about them)
Thnx in advance!
------------------ Dennis
Dennis Amrouche wrote:
Now Im trying to autocomplete the insertion of a doctype, but again no shortcut will bring what is shown in the screencast.
Not sure what you've seen here, but the (to me) relatively "guessable" approach worked perfectly: set the language to "html" (control-option-shift-h) if it's not already, type "doctype", and hit the tab button. You can then select the doctype you want using either the mouse or the numeric equivalents shown.
(And I guess its even faster for the authors to record a screencast on certain issues rather than writing about them)
I would guess that you guess incorrectly! (Based on my attempts at (non-TextMate) screencasts. It's harder than you might imagine!)
Cheers, Paul
Am 10.02.2008 um 14:37 schrieb Paul McCann:
... type "doctype", and hit the tab button. You can then select the doctype you want using either the mouse or the numeric equivalents shown.
Thanks Paul, this took me to the right direction...
(And I guess its even faster for the authors to record a screencast on certain issues rather than writing about them)
I would guess that you guess incorrectly! (Based on my attempts at (non-TextMate) screencasts. It's harder than you might imagine!)
. Video-Tutorials wont substitute proper documentation, but they could explain quite well and straight forward the handling of ie. software.
Whats the struggle to record snippets of 4min of free speach and flowing action with the software you like the most? (could be fun too, if you take it more as a simple show-case than a strict informational document)
But I admit ;) ... I never did a screencast so far ....
Thnx again Paul! Dennis
Cheers, Paul
On 10 Feb 2008, at 15:16, Dennis Amrouche wrote:
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(And I guess its even faster for the authors to record a screencast on certain issues rather than writing about them)
I would guess that you guess incorrectly! (Based on my attempts at (non-TextMate) screencasts. It's harder than you might imagine!)
Video-Tutorials wont substitute proper documentation, but they could explain quite well and straight forward the handling of ie. software.
Whats the struggle to record snippets of 4min of free speach and flowing action with the software you like the most?
Well, try it for yourself :) Coming up with good stuff to show and actually recording it is much much harder than it looks.
Also, even if we did 100+ new screencasts, what is the chance of us recording one showing exactly the stuff you needed (like the doctype snippet, which I actually think is featured in at least one screencast)?
Not to mistake the above for me not wanting more screencast, I love them, but just don’t underrestimate the effort that goes into them, and also, recording dozens of 4 minute “trivial” screencasts will IMO devalue the concept.
On Feb 10, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
…and also, recording dozens of 4 minute “trivial” screencasts will IMO devalue the concept.
I'm not so sure about that. I follow Railscasts which now has 90 episodes. They are usually about seven minutes focused on a single topic. In my opinion, it's an excellent podcast.
You're right that it's a lot of work though. Making just one surprised the heck out of me with how hard it was.
James Edward Gray II
You must set the Language Assocation the new file to HTML or save the file with .hml extension and the HTML bundle will works fine...
IMHO use the New from template command! ---- Akos
On Feb 10, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Dennis Amrouche wrote:
Now Im trying to autocomplete the insertion of a doctype, but again no shortcut will bring what is shown in the screencast.
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