Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by pholbrook on Friday December 05, 2008 @02:51PM
(#387446)
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.
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by pholbrook on Friday December 05, 2008 @03:02PM
(#387458)
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.
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by petercooper on Friday December 05, 2008 @08:51PM
(#387753)
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 :)
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.
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by iron_ball on Friday December 05, 2008 @03:43PM
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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.
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by iron_ball on Friday December 05, 2008 @06:19PM
(#387647)
Of course. jEdit uses standard shift+direction selection. And like most good text editors, you can map or remap any command to any key combination.
My blog is in a state of utmost disrepair, but if I ever clear its personal content and reboot it as a professional blog, a "hey everybody, jEdit" post will be pretty early on. I think it strikes a nice balance between vim/emacs-like power and GUI-app usability, and as one of the few high-quality Java desktop apps, it's cross-platform.
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by iron_ball on Friday December 05, 2008 @08:41PM
(#387747)
It's personal right now, I mean to privately archive the old content and start fresh. Once I get around to rebooting it, I'll self-promote by posting something here once I write something people might be interested in. Thanks for your interest, though!
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by thomasmallen on Friday December 05, 2008 @06:02PM
(#387639)
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.
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by jbyers on Friday December 05, 2008 @03:59PM
(#387518)
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. :)
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by qqq on Friday December 05, 2008 @05:15PM
(#387595)
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)
Re:How Alex Payne Uses TextMate
by sh1mmer on Friday December 05, 2008 @09:36PM
(#387773)
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.
:P
http://twitter.com/mikeysan/status/1040902296
I can't find any reference to such an update - according to VersionTracker, the last update was 1.5.7 on 10/26/07.
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.
You can even create a vertical insertion point and anything you type or delete will appear or disappear on all selected lines.
My blog is in a state of utmost disrepair, but if I ever clear its personal content and reboot it as a professional blog, a "hey everybody, jEdit" post will be pretty early on. I think it strikes a nice balance between vim/emacs-like power and GUI-app usability, and as one of the few high-quality Java desktop apps, it's cross-platform.
email me your blog info (not in your profile) so i can suscribe for when you get around to it. [email protected]
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
Inserting in a rectangle: C-x r t Deleting in a rectangle: C-x r d
and more...