[TxMt] i-search in TextMate

[Brian Lalor]

On Nov 28, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Wileks Joiner wrote:

> The above is why it is much faster.  I cringe when forced to use a 
> dialog box for all searching.  Being an emacs user and a firefox user, 
> these are key productivity boost when navigating some form of a text 
> document.

I'm a longtime Emacs user.  I've been using OS X for more than a year 
and TM is what it took for me to ditch the (horribly buggy and 
crash-prone) Emacs build for OS X.  I've had a lot of muscle memory to 
un-learn but I do like TM.  Hey, I paid for it, which is saying a lot 
for me!

Someone mentioned emacs highlighting every search; for me, this is not 
a huge deal.  What's most important is jumping to the point in the 
document after the cursor where the search first hits, and updating 
itself as the search phrase is expanded.

I eschew Firefox on OS X because its interface is *very* "un-Mac", but 
I really dig the search thingy that pops up at the bottom of the window 
when you type "/whatever".  That would be a really nifty add'n to TM.  
But just being able to type "^swhatever^s^s" to jump to the third match 
for "whatever" in my current document would may me just jibber with 
happiness. :-)

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