[TextMate] cool tip & bug

[Eric Hsu]

1. I think the program rocks.

2. I was writing some HTML and I had the need to have a command that 
jumped to the *inside* of the next tag. I couldn't figure out how to 
do this in TM (or any other editor), playing with snippets and Perl 
shell command ideas until I realized I could record a macro that did:

find <(.*?)> as regular expression
hit left arrow (to go to start of found selection), hit right arrow 
(to skip over the <)
find [^>]* to select all characters up to the >.

It works just great.

3. In some corner of my head I feel like snippets, macros and 
commands should really all be one type of automation entity. I'm not 
sure how to do that, but it's a little confusing to have so much 
power distributed across three different kinds of triggers...

4. Actual interface bug (in my opinion). If you start a selection, 
say in the middle of the screen, and drag up past the window top, TM 
should select everything up through the first character of the 
document. Instead, it only selects up to the first line stopping at 
the original column.

- Eric
-- 
Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
erichsu at math.sfsu.edu
http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu