Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

http://gregosuri.com/2011/08/15/text-mate-full-screen.html

by gr3g • 15 years ago

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jasontan• 15 years ago

awesome, thank you. now if only we could do split panes...

jarin2• 15 years ago

This might sound kind of trivial, but the lack of split panes (and no hope on the horizon) is what finally pushed me over the edge to learning vim. Haven't looked back :)

kennywinker5• 15 years ago

Ok, this is the wrong place to ask, but when I'm using unix text editors I'm reasonably happy EXCEPT I don't understand how anyone could use a text editor without being able to click to move the insertion point where they want it to be. Furiously leaning on the arrow keys is way too slow.

How does one solve this? is there a way to make the terminal accept mouse input? I've mostly only used pico/nano which I understand is similar to vi, et al. but maybe don't have a way to do this where other editors do?

_frog• 15 years ago

You might be interested in Chocolat[1], it's currently in alpha but I can get you an invite if you want

[1] http://chocolatapp.com/

tjstankus• 15 years ago

Well, if you're passing out invites... pretty please? I'm currently trying out different editors, not stuck on any particular one.

sdfjkl3• 15 years ago

This looks interesting. Invite?

FuzzyDunlop• 15 years ago

this would be spot on if it handled the drawer nicely and the opening of folders. Mind it seems that Sublime Text 2 also poorly handles new files opened when the app is fullscreen. A proper implementation would once again make TextMate unbeatable on OS X.

Glad it's there in some way or another though. Using fullscreen a lot more than I thought I ever would.

kanwisher• 15 years ago

Same here, switched to Sublime and haven't looked back. Not happy with the Textmate2 situation

gr3g4• 15 years ago

Have you tried using Missing Drawer Plugin for TM? I updated my post with details.

davej• 15 years ago

Works well with the missing drawer plugin: https://github.com/downloads/jezdez/textmate-missingdrawer/M...

ajross2• 15 years ago

What a bizarre packaging choice: bash/curl command to pull a shell script to pull and compile a github project which compiles and installs a Text Mate plugin.

Yikes.

epochwolf• 15 years ago

rvm and pow.cx also do this.

msbarnett2• 15 years ago

That's a little different, pow.cx and rvm are running installer scripts to get other scripts into place on your system and add them to your .bash_profile.

This is having you run through a bunch of rigamarole to download and compile source for a plugin, and then triggering textmate to install said plugin, when you could achieve the same effect by distributing the binary plug-in and having the user double-click it.

snos• 15 years ago

don't forget the 'j.mp' URL-shortener!

gr3g4• 15 years ago

1) This installs EGOTextMateFullScreen plugin (https://github.com/enormego/EGOTextMateFullScreen). I didn't write it and author didn't put a package out.

2) URL Shortening? I didn't have time to write the CSS to format my code on the page. The long links breaks the layout

3) How does it matter how its done as long as it works, especially when I spent more time responding to your comment than writing that script.

msbarnett2• 15 years ago

> How does it matter how its done as long as it works

Executing unknown scripts hiding behind obfuscated URLs is generally not considered a good idea.

Given that this is a very non-standard and decidedly odd way of distributing a TextMate plug-in, a large degree of skepticism is warranted.

ajross2• 15 years ago

What matters is that it's a terrible hack. Even ignoring the security concerns with "install this completely untrusted code from the internet": there's no way to cleanly recover/uninstall if something breaks; there's no way to tell what version you have (not even in theory, as this clones HEAD!).

Most importantly, there's no chain of authority here. In the Linux world, for example, your packages generally come from the distro and are signed. Down a layer, they might come from a third party repo (rpmfusion, say), which is still a large organization with high visibility and good auditing. Down farther still, there are tools like Launchpad or openSUSE's OBS which allow you to build installable pacakges of your own, but these are still distributed out of a managed infrastructure and your identity is reasonably tracked. Finally at the bottom are the people ("developers") who like to pull raw source code and compile it. These people are expected to be communicating as part of a project, so they can be warned about compatibility goofs or (goodness forbid) the occasional malware incident.

This "pull and install automatically" gives you the ease of use of the top level, but an even weaker promise of authority than even the bottom level. That's a bad thing.

heresy• 15 years ago

I hate it when people do this.

If you look at the script it's only three freaking commands, one of them a git clone.

We're not bumbling idiots who can't type (or copy & paste) into a terminal.

alexgodin• 15 years ago

Simple solution. Vim.

hack_edu• 15 years ago

Simple solution. Emacs.

Oh, wait... Nevermind!

kriardol• 15 years ago

Vim has a command for putting Text Mate in fullscreen on OSX Lion? It really does have everything.

kennywinker5• 15 years ago

Simple solution. BBEdit.

RexRollman• 15 years ago

Does Lion's Terminal application have support full screen? If so, it might be interesting to use it with Emacs or Vim.

sdfjkl3• 15 years ago

Yes.

metafour• 15 years ago

Simple solution. http://wastm2released.com/

Oh wait, never mind...

redrory• 15 years ago

A screenshot would be nice.

sudont• 15 years ago

http://cl.ly/2M1D3k2A1Q1b132w1p3J

http://cl.ly/0r3O0h1T0c3T2T2M3c45

http://cl.ly/453a0D1k0H3v34302P3Q

Xuzz• 15 years ago

My app Maximizer can do this dynamically for pretty much any app on your system (including TextMate, but also stuff like Firefox or Spotify). It's SIMBL based, but the code is clean and hopefully open source soon: http://chpwn.com/apps/maximizer.html

mauricemach2• 15 years ago

I'm using maximizer with TextMate and Chrome. Works pretty well, thanks! The only caveat is that to see the drawer, you have to hide it and show it again.

angrycoder• 15 years ago

Chrome has real fullscreen and swipe gestures if you are using the dev build.

sdfjkl3• 15 years ago

Piping things from curl into bash is about the dumbest thing you can do security wise. Except if you also use an URL shortener, which means that in addition to trusting the author not to be evil, you're also trusting the shortener service to deliver what you (or the author) expected.

MatthewPhillips• 15 years ago

Coding in full screen? For elite hackers who don't need to test the thing they're coding?

igorgue• 15 years ago

I run my tests from VIM.

rauljara• 15 years ago

You can also use multiple spaces. Fullscreen editor in one. Full screen terminal in another. Fullscreen browser in a third, to defeat the supposedly distractionless environment a fullscreen app does its best to offer you.

kennywinker5• 15 years ago

Whatever I'm testing is just a swipe away. No big deal.

gr3g4• 15 years ago

Hmm.. Rspec + autotest + Growl

patrickyan• 15 years ago

Chocolat (http://chocolatapp.com) seems like a promising replacement for TextMate, since TextMate 2 is vaporware. Lots of bugs right now though.

hox• 15 years ago

Sublime Text 2 (http://www.sublimetext.com/2) seems to be more advanced and isn't excluding users from its beta.

justinchen• 15 years ago

Distraction free mode on Sublime Text 2 is pretty awesome.

iamjustlooking• 15 years ago

I really wish lion didn't make your second monitor useless in full screen.

webfuel• 15 years ago

It's not completely useless, you can "click and drag windows and toolbars from the primary display to the secondary display"

http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/11/multiple-displays-full-screen...

chc• 15 years ago

As far as I can tell, that piece is really deceptive. You can drag floating windows from the same application that would normally float over the fullscreen app. You cannot, for example, fullscreen TextMate on your primary display and have Safari or Photoshop on the secondary.

Aramgutang• 15 years ago

What assurance do I have that http://j.mp/text-mate-full-screen will not return "rm -rf ~/*"?

spicyj• 15 years ago

You don't have that assurance whenever you install anything.

acangiano• 15 years ago

    $ git clone https://github.com/enormego/EGOTextMateFullScreen.git /tmp/EGOTextMateFullScreen
    $ xcodebuild -project /tmp/EGOTextMateFullScreen/EGOTextMateFullScreen.xcodeproj -target EGOTextMateFullScreen
    $ open /tmp/EGOTextMateFullScreen/build/Release/EGOTextMateFullScreen.tmplugin

moonboots• 15 years ago

Full screen? stfu

aristidesfl• 15 years ago

Who cares about Textmate nowadays anyway?

Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

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