[TxMt] Re: POLL: HTML CodeSense?

[Paul Collins]

Thanks for your reply Steve...

> I just wanted to be clear (maybe the initial reply was buried by the
> avalanche of replies to the code sense :-) but it's not ⌃> that does
> what you'd like the "closing bracket type-hit" to do, but rather
> ⌘⌥. (<- that period is part of the keystroke, not the end of the
> sentence). (<- this period is the end of the sentence)

I can't seem to get that shortcut to work, maybe I've somehow changed
the settings when I was playing about!

> One thing to keep in mind here is that the ⌘] key combo has been the
> defacto Mac OS key combination to indent highlighted text since way
> back when Steve Jobs was wearing diapers. So it's not TextMate that
> has to change, but rather the other OS X apps that brought their
> windows shortcuts along with them ;-)

You are right, that is true. I think even in Dreamweaver on Mac, it is
set for ⌥⇥ by default, I always go in and change it when I install as
I have come from PC to Mac a little while back, probably like a lot of
people.  I can get used to it eventually, but it would be nice if
there was the option to change it as I am used to using a single
keystroke to indent text! I guess all of these things are just to make
it easier to migrate to textmate. Only a want rather than a need.

Thanks again


On 07/08/07, Steve Lianoglou <lists at arachnedesign.net> wrote:
> Just to mention a few things ...
>
> > Just on those two, I think most HTML editors use the shortcuts
> > mentioned above and probably the most painful thing when you migrate
> > is trying to get used to a whole new group of shortcuts. I think  the
> > ⌃> works better in some ways for closing tags as you don't have to
> > tab
> > back in to add an ID or class to a DIV you just closed.
>
> I just wanted to be clear (maybe the initial reply was buried by the
> avalanche of replies to the code sense :-) but it's not ⌃> that does
> what you'd like the "closing bracket type-hit" to do, but rather
> ⌘⌥. (<- that period is part of the keystroke, not the end of the
> sentence). (<- this period is the end of the sentence)
>
> The two are quite a bit different, and both very handy.
>
> > The ⌘] or ⌥⇥
> > shortcut is a pain for indenting though and I still hit TAB everytime
> > and delete my text. These are only small things, but when using on a
> > day to day basis can be annoying.
>
> One thing to keep in mind here is that the ⌘] key combo has been the
> defacto Mac OS key combination to indent highlighted text since way
> back when Steve Jobs was wearing diapers. So it's not TextMate that
> has to change, but rather the other OS X apps that brought their
> windows shortcuts along with them ;-)
>
> -steve
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