[TextMate] Re: Reload in Safari and other UAs

[timothy martens]

On Oct 6, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Justin French wrote:

> On 07/10/2004, at 1:32 PM, timothy martens wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:24 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>>
>>> On 6. Oct 2004, at 12:17, timothy martens wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1. Preview in Browsers with the ability to add/remove browsers. I 
>>>> love the built in Safari engine live preview, but can we harness 
>>>> other User Agents' rendering engines as well?
>>>
>>> You can open the current page in a browser using the Commands. 
>>> There's already one that assigns command-r to activate and refresh 
>>> Safari.
>>
>> This is not working for me. When I do CMD+R ()reload in Safari) -- 
>> Safari launches/opens my default home page not the document in 
>> Textmate I'd like to preview? Does the script need to be modified? 
>> Anyone?
>
> It's a _refresh_ of the current Safari window.  Here's what I do.
>
> 1. Open a project in TextMate, and work on the file I need (eg 
> eventsController.php)
> 2. Open Safari, and navigate to the interface/controller I'm working 
> on (eg http://apo.localhost/events/list/)
> 3. Edit in TextMate, press Command-R to check my changes in Safari.
>
> I think you're assuming that the command takes notice of what file 
> you're editing in TM, and opens it in Safari.  It doesn't.  It was 
> designed to help web app developers (running Apache, PHP, Ruby, etc) a 
> quick way to test their code edits over a server, rather than a local 
> file.

Yes I was. I guess I'm seeing the fact that this app is really targeted 
at programmers rather than XHTML/CSS UI hackers.

> For simple previews of raw HTML (without server-side code), TM has a 
> built-in HTML preview, which uses the Safari engine.  Window > Show 
> Web Preview.


Cool, but insufficient for my needs. I would like to be able to preview 
files in any/all browsers after tweaking my XHTML/CSS markup