[TxMt] Re: textmate Digest, Vol 5, Issue 6

Wed Feb 2 18:04:32 UTC 2005

On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:20 PM, textmate-request at lists.macromates.com wrote:

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>    1. Re: ODB, FTP and external editors (Allan Odgaard)
>    2. Re: ODB, FTP and external editors (Allan Odgaard)
>    3. Re: esc auto-complete? (Allan Odgaard)
>    4. Re: Line Up/Down for Arrow Keys? (Allan Odgaard)
>    5. Re: Editing a graphic in PS (Allan Odgaard)
>    6. Re: ActionScript bundle (Rob Bevan)
>    7. Re: pdfLaTeX, b4 (Allan Odgaard)
>    8. Re: ActionScript bundle (Allan Odgaard)
>    9. Re: OS X Services (Allan Odgaard)
>   10. Re: TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette (Allan Odgaard)
>   11. Re: TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette (Allan Odgaard)
>   12. Re: pdfLaTeX, b4 (Sune Foldager)
>   13. Re: Inputs in Text Window (Allan Odgaard)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:27:14 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] ODB, FTP and external editors
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <a42ddd3ea798ff41b098a4c0ea2c88dc at macromates.com>
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> On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:20, Eric Hsu wrote:
>
>> I myself am more inconvenienced by the malfunction of Services... it
>> was really helping Pages be more of a text processor. But now, saving
>> and closing in TM doesn't seem to send the edited text back to the
>> calling program (in this case Pages), which then hangs waiting.
>
> Ah, hadn't realized it, but that's actually the same problem (since the
> service also use the external editor API).
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:31:19 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] ODB, FTP and external editors
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <e8c128481519c172547a3e13ca95a273 at macromates.com>
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> On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:11, Brad Miller wrote:
>
>> over on NetNewsWire, Brent does both private and public beta releases.
>>  The public one's go to version tracker etc. but the private ones are
>> only available to people on the mailing list, including a link.  Not
>> sure how the autoupdate would adapt. I suppose you could have
>> preferences like Quicksilver...
>
> What I probably could do was have a select few which gets the beta
> before others, and they have maybe 8 hours to report problems. But most
> likely that wouldn't really work, and so far the betas seems to mostly
> work for the majority, and there's always the ability to downgrade (all
> previous versions remain online).
>
> If I add another stage, like nightly builds or private betas, I should
> probably instead bump the current betas to minors. Maybe then ADC news
> would also carry new releases as news...
>
> The main reason I do betas as betas is because the features which debut
> in these are unlikely to be “complete”.
>
>> I hope you can release a patch for this one since it severely limits
>> my ability to get things done.
>
> Yes, when I get back to coding it's probably the first I'll look at.
> But as Eric said, you can always downgrade. All previous versions
> remain online.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:42:37 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] esc auto-complete?
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <f166365d35cce20dde5f0e48fa62e416 at macromates.com>
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> On Feb 1, 2005, at 18:47, Simon Gregory wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to add a few snippets to the Actionscript bundle to include
>> some of the shortcuts that Actionscript developers would be used to
>> after coding in Flash.
>
> Great, let me know if you want access to the repository. The current
> ActionScript bundle has no maintainer (but is by Rob Bevan).
>
>> I've got the tab completion working fine but I'm used to pressing esc
>> then the key combination to invoke an auto complete and was hoping
>> that someone could tell me how to get this working.
>
> That's not currently possible, other than recoding a macro that does
> 'tab' and bind that to the escape key.
>
>> If you've time then an explanation of Activation: Key Equivalent
>
> This is a _single_ key (with optional modifiers).
>
>> and Activation: Input Pattern would also be useful as I can't find any
>> documentation.
>
> Input pattern is not working yet. What it will be is a non-greedy
> regular expression matched against the typed input. Mainly useful for
> having macros executed on certain editing patterns. For example the XML
> bundle has a snippet that expands to: “<$1></$1>”. Here one could match
> “expansion of this snippet”, “giving the tag a name”, “pressing return
> inside the tag (w/o typing anything)”. The macro would then add indent
> and move the end tag down an extra line.
>
> This coupled with the upcoming scope system (which will be able to
> limit the activation methods to specific language elements) will allow
> for some pretty neat stuff ;)
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:46:29 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] Line Up/Down for Arrow Keys?
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <e87b1e752ac3cb869dd9501c2ed46ae1 at macromates.com>
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> On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:39, Wayne Larsen wrote:
>
>> I love the new file chooser, however, is it possible for textmate to
>> allow line up or line down to be used in place of the arrow keys for
>> list navigation? [...]
>
> I'll look into it -- it should use the standard key bindings, but
> unfortunately the way I currently pull off the thing about moving the
> selection in the inactive table view while the search string has focus,
> doesn't play well with the normal event system :/
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:47:33 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] Editing a graphic in PS
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <7a34871ca7b41e2ec21d363468d09c24 at macromates.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
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> On Feb 1, 2005, at 0:58, Eric Curtis wrote:
>
>> I thought it was pulling the name and that Finder was what would open
>> it, which it did in a way. Might I suggest changing it to:
>>
>> Open file with Default App
>
> I took the title from Xcode. But I'll check if Launch Services could
> give me the name of the application that will actually open the file.
> That would be very nice.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:52:53 +0000
> From: Rob Bevan <robbevan at xpt.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] ActionScript bundle
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <9FB84FB2-749B-11D9-92D9-00039396DAC0 at xpt.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
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>
> On 1 Feb 2005, at 21:42, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>
>> Great, let me know if you want access to the repository. The current
>> ActionScript bundle has no maintainer (but is by Rob Bevan).
>
> Hi Allan,
>
> Sorry, I've been meaning to pick this up again. I have a few snippets
> and commands to add to the bundle. If you let me have access I'll do
> this soon (and maybe coordinate with Simon).
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:55:17 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] pdfLaTeX, b4
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <1059af41f19e5501c1ebdeee8a7aba5f at macromates.com>
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>
> On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:01, Robert Ullrey wrote:
>
>> Quick question though. Now I would like to use XeLateX as my
>> typesetting engine so I can change fonts through fontspec. How can I
>> change the bundle command in PDF LateX to use XeLateX ($xelatex
>> [file] in the terminal)?
>
> Select Automation -> Run Command -> Edit Commands
>
>
> Here you'll find LaTeX / PDF LaTeX which is the current command.
> Duplicate it and make your changes. It's a lot of lines, but the
> essense is the pdflatex which output is piped into perl, that makes the
> errors HTML anchors.
>
> Ask if there's anything.
>
>> P.S., It would also be nice to be able to use ConTeXt ($texexec)
>
> It shouldn't be a problem to modify the command to use ConTeXt instead.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:58:32 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] ActionScript bundle
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <9bb570ab93548d471c013278eeae51eb at macromates.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> On Feb 1, 2005, at 22:52, Rob Bevan wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I've been meaning to pick this up again. I have a few snippets
>> and commands to add to the bundle. If you let me have access I'll do
>> this soon (and maybe coordinate with Simon).
>
> Done!
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:00:29 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] OS X Services
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <5d65196ad5d6f66a0020658d8bfb25e8 at macromates.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> On Feb 1, 2005, at 19:12, Eric Curtis wrote:
>
>> Perhaps I am doing something wrong put when I highlight a chunk of
>> text and execute the service nothing happens...
>
> This must be the missing ODB editor support in beta 4.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:01:58 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <7d1ba8bbc17e9e74091500a4cec84643 at macromates.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> On Feb 1, 2005, at 20:51, Chris Messina wrote:
>
>> I would also like to be able to drag n' drop a snippet onto a
>> selection and have the snippet wrap around my selection.
>
> Ehm... how? Shouldn't the snippet then somehow specify where the
> selection should go, and if so, would this be any different than what
> you currently can do, other than the way you activate it?
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:07:11 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] TextMate's Missing Snippets Palette
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <6e556256733582045ea04f6677a1489b at macromates.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> On Jan 31, 2005, at 16:05, Jon Raphaelson wrote:
>
>> Actually, some sort of floating palette with all of the current
>> languages stuff (commands, snippets, macros) would be handy.
>
> Okay -- but I'd prefer not to spend any time on this before after 1.1.
> And I'm btw changing my plans a little, so 1.1 will be in a few weeks,
> and I'll just do 5-10 1.1.x releases instead of having 1.1 in beta for
> half a year ;)
>
> Hopefully no-one feels cheated that some of the stuff I've promised for
> 1.1 then will be 1.1.x instead.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:18:27 +0100
> From: Sune Foldager <cryo at cyanite.org>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] pdfLaTeX, b4
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <43fca7a105bc5f45bf2a1ad1fcfc428c at cyanite.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> On 1. feb 2005, at 14:35, Brad Miller wrote:
>
>> The latest unstable version of tetex from the fink archive appears to
>> be several versions out of date [...].
>
> Yes, in fact the teTeX package doesn't have the newest Web2C TeX
> version at all no matter what distro you pick. The i-Installer one is a
> mixture of teTeX (for the foundation) and a binary distro called
> TeX-live for the programs (tex, pdftex, dvips etc.). teTeX is the most
> popular package for *nix as far as I am aware, so it's rather odd that
> it's behind like this. And too bad. But at least it can be worked
> around on the mac.
>
> -- 
> Sune.
> :: the Cottage of Lost Play.
> :: http://cyanite.org
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:17:51 +0100
> From: Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com>
> Subject: Re: [TxMt] Inputs in Text Window
> To: TM Users <textmate at lists.macromates.com>
> Message-ID: <03fac328adafa26e4d9eb5f52aa2b3c3 at macromates.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> On Jan 27, 2005, at 17:26, Mr. Robert Ullrey wrote:
>
>> [...] I am still frustrated with changing inputs (e.g., greek) as well
>> as not being able to use input engines like "Spell Checker". Ant
>> estimate on this bug fix?
>
> Well, the best I can do is say that in half a year, I expect 90% of the
> things reported since release should have been taken care of ;)
>
> I know it's not of much help, but the more exact estimate I give, the
> more chance there is that it won't be correct.
>
>
>
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