How Alex Payne Uses TextMate

http://www.al3x.net/2008/12/03/how-i-use-textmate.html

by twampss • 18 years ago

45 32 18 years ago

frankus• 18 years ago

I've fallen in love with the vertical selection feature (option + drag).

You can even create a vertical insertion point and anything you type or delete will appear or disappear on all selected lines.

aaronblohowiak4• 18 years ago

http://sethmason.com/blog/23/vim-tip-select-column

iron_ball3• 18 years ago

jEdit has this too. alt-backslash and ctrl-backslash toggle multiple selection/insert and rectangular selection/insert. So you can select multiple blocks of text, then what you type will replace all of them at once.

izak30• 18 years ago

Notepad++ does that too (back before I was a happy TextMate/OSX.. Notepad++ on Win gave a good experience)

thomasmallen• 18 years ago

Except for mouse interaction (correct me if I'm wrong, GVim vets), Visual mode in Vim puts TextMate's block select to shame (docs: http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/visual.html) because it allows you to use Vim's other editing commands (replace, change, insert from beginning or end, etc.). Not to mention that you can select this block based on Vim motions. I guess this all adds up to Vim surpassing most other editors when it comes to selecting text, which is a given considering its focus on moving around code.

hs• 18 years ago

vim has it too, powerful indeed

select the block use v or ^v and navigate with hjkl, do commands like c,d

replace string in text selection -> v (or ^v) + hjkl + :s/old/new

comment a block of code (5 lines) with # -> 0 + ^v + 5j + I + # + Esc + j

as a plus, u don't need mouse ... fear the simplicity

newt03112• 18 years ago

Emacs: Rectangular selection. A complete superset of that functionality. Check out the C-x r --- key combos.

Inserting in a rectangle: C-x r t Deleting in a rectangle: C-x r d

and more...

pholbrook2• 18 years ago

Payne says "My only hesitation was that TextMate was getting to be practically (although hyperbolically) abandonware. Thankfully, this fear was assuaged by a recent update over the Thanksgiving holiday. It lives!"

I can't find any reference to such an update - according to VersionTracker, the last update was 1.5.7 on 10/26/07.

twampss• 18 years ago

I noticed that, too. Perhaps he is referring to "Cutting-Edge" updates? I'm on build 1436 (Minor Updates) and 1496 is available now.

pholbrook2• 18 years ago

Ah, that's it - I hadn't noticed that option in the Preferences. But yes, turn on Cutting Edge updates in the Updates preference, and now I get offered 1496.

tlrobinson2• 18 years ago

Not sure about the update, but the TextMate mailing lists and IRC channel are very active. TextMate 2.0 is in the works. It's hardly abandonware.

graywh• 18 years ago

And all the smug emacs and vim users just nod and says "Welcome to the party".

aaronblohowiak4• 18 years ago

:%s/party/war

mhartl• 18 years ago

There are lots of emacs and vim refugees in TextMate land as well. (I'm a refugee from both.)

bbgm• 18 years ago

I've always found Textmate to be emacs-y. One reason I like it

newt03112• 18 years ago

they aren't at the party until textmate has a turing-complete programming language built in. It has a while to go.

jbyers2• 18 years ago

Note that if you cut and paste Alex's .ackrc (at least in Firefox 3), you'll get one leading whitespace character on each line. This will cause problems if you don't notice it. :)

frisco• 18 years ago

The GetBundles links aren't working for me, and I can't find any reference to it anywhere else via google or github. Am I completely crazy?

qqq• 18 years ago

  cg5[14:14] Bundles > svn co http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Review/Bundles/GetBundles.tmbundle/
  svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/trunk/Review/Bundles/GetBundles.tmbundle'
  svn: PROPFIND of '/trunk/Review/Bundles/GetBundles.tmbundle': 503 Service Unavailable (http://svn.textmate.org)

jbyers2• 18 years ago

That SVN repo was down, it's back now (5:30 PM PST).

tlrobinson2• 18 years ago

Slightly OT, but: "1. Open TextMate. 2. Type "lorem". 3. Hit tab."

http://twitter.com/mikeysan/status/1040902296

randomwalker• 18 years ago

I don't have textmate, but I have must-know-the-answer syndrome. I'm guessing it rkcnaqf gb gur yberz vcfhz grkg. (rot13) Can you confirm?

JeffJenkins• 18 years ago

Yes. That is correct.

andr• 18 years ago

This sounds like Paris Hilton advising me what to wear in my bag.

petercooper• 18 years ago

I bought TextMate back in early 2005, so was a pretty early user. I love it, but I use almost none of these advanced features. It's just a really solid text editor for me. I don't know the combinations for macros and what not and it's still worth the money :)

sh1mmer• 18 years ago

I didn't know there was an updated version over thanksgiving. Heck I didn't know that it had been updated at all in a year. You might need to select the "cutting edge" option in prefs though.

sgibat• 18 years ago

I like the design of this blog. Navigation at the end forces you to at least skim the blog post.

jrockway• 18 years ago

Here is his article about why not to use emacs:

http://al3x.net/2008/10/22/on-flight-to-old-text-editors.htm...

Wow. My faith in the human race has just decreased significantly. I wonder if people writing blogs realize that when they just make stuff up, it makes them look stupid.

How Alex Payne Uses TextMate

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