Editors - E-Scribe

TextMate author Allan Odgaard has been working on a user manual for the program, in preparation for next week’s final release of version 1.1. He’s been writing and editing for a few weeks. As a Markdown devotee (all my posts here are written using Markdown) I was pleased to see this comment in his blog entry about the manual:

Should you somehow have missed my countless references to Markdown then for the records let me just state that the documentation was written in Markdown and I absolutely love it!

I added Wilson Miner’s TextMate bundle for Django templates to the TextMate bundle repository today. Thanks, Wilson!

comments commented on Sun Jan 15 11:46:27 2006:

the ‘scope’ selectors need to be changed. As is the scope text.html.django doesn’t work. text.html works fine.

Paul commented on Sun Jan 15 13:44:40 2006:

But then you get Django-style coloring in all your HTML files. It works as-is. You do have to specifically select the “language” from the language selector at the bottom of the window.

I banged my head against this one for a while before figuring it out, so I’m posting the solution – for my own future reference if nothing else.

I’ve been working on extending Textmate’s Markdown language bundle. The development versions of the bundles are stored in a repository managed by Subversion.

I noticed that the bundle’s name started with a lowercase letter, unlike the other bundles, so I did a quick svn mv to fix it:

Warning: this is a long post about… a text editor.

screen shot I’m very late to the TextMate party. Like many other people, I heard the buzz when it came out last fall, checked it out, and went away interested but unimpressed.

At the time I knew that BBEdit’s long stint as my primary text editor was coming to a close. For its replacement I wanted an app that felt cleaner; was Cocoa, not Carbon; didn’t have a dozen years of accumulated cruft in the menus; and didn’t have language-specific features that felt tacked-on. For shell tasks I continued to use and enjoy Emacs, but I was pining for a great native editor on the desktop.

My first little bit of TextMate language grammar hacking: PHP.tmbundle 2.0.1, which has two small enhancements over the stock 2.0:

HTML code embedded inside <<<HTML … HTML; heredoc delimiters will be colorized as HTML
Code-folding is enabled for those blocks

Enjoy! Feedback is welcome. Thanks to Textmate author Allan Odgaard for helpful answers to my newbie questions on the TextMate mailing list.

ritesh commented on Thu Nov 10 13:03:27 2005:

this is good.

Posts tagged: EDITORS

A software manual written using Markdown

Django template bundle for TextMate

Obscure "svn mv" problem solved

TextMate: Bundles of goodness

PHP/HTML enhancements for TextMate