[TxMt] Re: Projects in TM2: simple include/exclude directories

[Max Lein]

On 27.11.2013, at 06:11 , Owen Densmore wrote:

> My home folder has many folders, many of which I'd like to have be in
> multi-folder projects.  So ~/bin and ~/notes are a pair, while a second
> pair are ~/bank (receipts) and ~/config (a collection of configuration
> files used elsewhere)
> 
> If I understand correctly, I'd have to have a .tm_properties file for each
> pair, not possible given the file hierarchy style of projects
You'd want to have a .tm_properties file in you user directory which sets the defaults. Then in many cases, you don't need to create a per-»project« .tm_properties file. 

The .tm_properties files in nested directories apply in addition to defaults. For instance, you probably want to use different include/exclude rules in the directory where you're writing code for a numerical simulation than in the directory where you write the article in LaTeX with the associated findings. 

Allen made a conscious design decision to abandon project files and base the idea of projects just on filesystem hierarchy. In some ways, that makes TextMate 2 more powerful than TextMate 1.x, but other things (especially working with scattered files) has become more complicated because a folder is a »single project«. 

Personally, I haven't found a good way to recreate my TextMate 1.x workflow in TextMate 2 (symlinks don't mesh well with my LaTeX code and my git repositories). You probably have to adapt the way you organize your work. 

I have created a sensible master .tm_properties file and since I essentially only work with TeX-related files, shell scripts and markdown files, I don't really need to change them. Instead of symlinking, I just copy files and keep them in sync by hand if need be. 

Max