[TxMt] Re: Moving project files, or...

Jacob Rus jrus at fas.harvard.edu
Thu Apr 27 00:45:34 UTC 2006


Jason McC. Smith wrote:
>     I have a large (stable) code base that I'm working with, and am 
> doing a number of investigations into the code to figure out how the 
> bloody thing works.  It occurred to me that I might be able to use 
> Projects as a way of tracking these investigations:
> 
>     1) Drop top folder of source repository on TextMate.
>     2) Start digging through code, leaving windows open as tabs.
>     3) When I'm done, I have a list from left to right of the files I 
> ended up looking at, and the last place I looked in them.
>     4) Save the project with an appropriate name related to the *topic* 
> "DataFileSearching.tmproj" for example.
>     5) At later date, when I need to revisit the investigation, I have 
> breadcrumbs of where I went, what I looked at, etc. 

Yeah, I open 3-4 projects of the same source folder, with different sets 
of files open.  It works great!

-Jacob




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