[TxMt] Tidy questions

[Eric Knapp]

Thanks Allen, this is working for me with one small change. You can  
specify the tab size in a Tidy config file which I have done.  But,  
the --tab-size was overriding the setting on my tidy config file. So,  
I have just deleted that part of your command and it is fully using  
my config file now. I deleted this: "--tab-size $TM_TAB_SIZE --indent- 
spaces $TM_TAB_SIZE".

This is great! I am gradually switching all my coding to TextMate as  
I get more comfortable with it and start to customize it to my needs.  
I'm using it for Ruby, HTML, and general text editing like Markdown.  
The next big thing I would like to crack is Java. I think that will  
be more difficult but I don't need TextMate to be Eclipse so I'm  
hopeful.

Thanks again.

-Eric


On Oct 18, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 18/10/2005, at 18.05, Eric Knapp wrote:
>
>
>> I'm using TextMate for lots of HTML these days. I like the built- 
>> in Tidy command but it removes non-breaking spaces ( ). How  
>> do I adjust this?
>>
>
> Turns out the -bare/-b option was responsible for this. I have  
> changed the command to not add this option. While reading up on  
> Tidy, I found a few other neat options, so I changed the command to:
>
> "${TM_TIDY:-tidy}" -f /dev/null -iq -utf8 -asxhtml --tab-size  
> $TM_TAB_SIZE --indent-spaces $TM_TAB_SIZE
>
> Basically the “new” thing is that it uses the current tab size as  
> the amount of spaces to indent, and it knows about the tab size as  
> well (if e.g. the document contains tabs in a <pre> block, Tidy  
> will convert these to spaces, using the tab size).
>
> I was tempted to pipe the result through unexpand, to convert  
> spaces to tabs, but then it “breaks” the <pre> blocks (i.e. by  
> using tabs when one really wants to use spaces), so I refrained  
> from doing that -- a better option is probably to enable soft tabs  
> for HTML.
>
>
>> Next, I have a nice Tidy config file that I use when running tidy  
>> from the command line. Can I configure the tidy command to use my  
>> config file?
>>
>
> From the man page, it seems Tidy uses a HTML_TIDY variable for the  
> config file.
>
> So go to Preferences / Advanced (in TextMate), make a new entry  
> with Name set to HTML_TIDY and value set to e.g. /Users/ 
> eric/.tidy_config
>
> It needs to be an absolute path, i.e. you can't use ~/ or $HOME.
>
>
>> Finally, in the Tidy command in the Bundle Editor is this comment:
>>     # BEWARE. Errors are suppressed. Use Tidy Error Display first!
>> Where is the Tidy Error Display command?
>>
>
> uhm… I sacked it… I've updated the comment :)
>
>
>
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