[TxMt] TextMate Manual

[Ruben Bakker]

Hi Allan,

I studied the documentation yesterday night: The documentation is just
awesome!!!
I learned quite a few tricks and keystrokes: The more I know about
TextMate the better, it is a joy to work with!

Thanks for your great work
Ruben


On 12/16/05, Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at macromates.com> wrote:
> Just posted the following to my blog (you can post feedback here or
> on the blog post, if you have any):
>
> I am planning to release 1.1 final next week. While I do get many
> repeated requests, one of the issues that has been hard to overlook
> lately is the lack of thorough coherent updated documentation.
>
> <!--more-->
>
> This has now changed after spending a few weeks writing more or less
> full-time (so that's why there has been no nightly builds, although I
> will likely put out one later today with a dozen minor items in the
> change log).
>
> Here is the first public draft of the [TextMate manual](http://
> macromates.com/textmate/manual/).
>
> Don't hesitate to post feedback as comments to this entry.
>
> Currently the documentation is low on use-cases. I hope to
> iteratively improve this over time, as I think that when people ask
> for documentation they are in fact much more interested in how to
> combine the features of TextMate to solve the task at hand, than the
> core facts about how to move the caret and such.
>
> This of course is quite a challenge, as the tasks and possibilities
> are infinite. I myself regularly find new ways to use TextMate to
> improve my workflow in ways I would not have thought of just a few
> weeks earlier. Writing the documentation was no exception. One of the
> cooler things I discovered was that I could add the command below as
> a preferences item to the `entity.name.reference.markdown` scope to
> have escape suggest completion candidates from my aggregated
> reference list, when inside a Markdown reference (given as `[link
> text][REFERENCE]`).
>
>      {  completionCommand = 'sed -n \
>            "s/^\[\($TM_CURRENT_WORD[^]]*\).*/\1/p" \
>            "$TM_DIRECTORY/markdown.references"';
>         disableDefaultCompletion = 1;
>      }
>
> Should you somehow have missed my countless references to [Markdown]
> (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) then for the records
> let me just state that the documentation was written in Markdown and
> I absolutely love it!
>
>
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