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:
One of the first things that won me over to OS X was the near-instantaneousness with which you could wake a machine up from sleep. For a longtime PowerBook user who had always found Sleep to be a killer feature – even back when waking up took 30 seconds or more – this was a great bonus.
Sleep is known as “Standby” in the Windows world, but for some reason a lot of people prefer “Hibernate,” perhaps because it predates Standby or perhaps because it’s safer – all data is saved to disk, so you’re covered even if you completely lose power.
Warning: this is a long post about… a text editor.
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.
I’m working up to a longer post about my recent conversion to TextMate, which appears to be total. For the moment, though, just a quick note about a couple things I’ve added to the TextMate wiki: a rough guide to bug reporting (adapted from a mailing list reply from TextMate author Allan Odgaard), and a recipe for doing lookups in 10.4’s built-in dictionary (based on code from John Gruber).
Version 4.1b1 of LaunchBar has been released, with a slew of new features. I like the new file manipulation commands:
Copy and Paste (Command-Shift-C): Transfers the current selection (e.g. the selected file path, postal address, URL, etc.) to the frontmost application with a single keystroke.
Copy File Contents (Command-Option-C): Copies the contents of the selected file to the clipboard. Works with most text and graphic file formats.
Copy and Paste File Contents (Command-Shift-Option-C). Useful for inserting text and graphic snippets in the currently edited document.