Posts tagged ‘text editing’
Text files and me V - Markdown
December 25th, 2011 at 8:25 pm by Dr. Drang
If it seems like this series has been going on forever, it’s because it has. Part 1: From text to word processors and back Part 2: Linux, troff, and SGML Part 3: The LaTeX years Part 3½: Plates and pdflatex Part 4: BBEdit and TextMate My Christmas present to myself is finishing this series off…
The siren song of Vim
November 28th, 2011 at 10:23 pm by Dr. Drang
The internets are conspiring against me. First, I saw this 20th anniversary appreciation of Vim at Ars Technica. Then came this short post promising me that switching to Vim would be quick, painless, and even fun. Finally, today I read Brent Simmons’ post about navigating in various Mac text editors—he compares them all to Vim,…
Capitalization keybinding
November 11th, 2011 at 8:39 pm by Dr. Drang
Have you seen Brett Terpstra’s latest keybinding thing? I don’t think I’ll ever use it, but it did inspire me to look into the way the Cocoa text system handles keybindings and add one particular keybinding that I’ve wanted for ages. Along the way I learned something new about TextMate. Brett’s new keybinding sets ⌘⌥↩…
What’s it all about, Alpha?
September 26th, 2011 at 9:12 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m not big on conspiracy theories, ulterior motives, or “the real story,” but if Allan Odgaard were to announce that he’d been planning for months to release a public alpha of TextMate 2 by the end of the year, that it had nothing to do with BBEdit 10, the switching of longtime users, or the…
Markdown reference links in TextMate
September 12th, 2011 at 11:33 pm by Dr. Drang
Brett Terpstra has released another clever Markdown tool to sit next to his Marked application and Blogsmith Bundle. It’s a sort of Markdown tidy, a filter that runs through a file and turns all your inline links into reference links. So there’s no misunderstanding, let’s do a quick vocabulary review. Inline links look like this:…
Scramble
August 19th, 2011 at 9:22 am by Dr. Drang
I woke up this morning realizing that David Sparks was going to link here today. The top post on the blog, the first thing David’s fans from Macsparky and Mac Power Users were going to see, was a post about hotel showers. Not putting my best foot forward. Now, a smart blogger, a focused blogger,…
Giving up on giving up TextMate
August 10th, 2011 at 10:43 pm by Dr. Drang
Oh, I talked a big game, but when the chips were down, when it was nut-cutting time, when the rubber met the road, in the dark night of the soul, I chickened out. Like @ClarkGoble (http://xrl.us/bk2nar), I’m giving up TextMate for BBEdit 10 for a while to see how it goes.After I finish this report.2:42…
Distraction-free
July 22nd, 2011 at 11:32 pm by Dr. Drang
Let me explain why I have no interest in buying a “writing environment,” especially one that promises to be distraction-free. This afternoon I wrote a report for a client about some equipment I had collected, inspected, dissected, reconnected, and reflected on.1 The report ended up with about 2½ pages of text and two dozen photographs…
Reading time redux
June 5th, 2011 at 9:54 pm by Dr. Drang
A confession: I don’t really care that much about estimating the reading time of the stuff I write. I just thought it would be an interesting and easy little TextMate command, and it was. I spent more time looking up average reading speeds than writing the command or the post. But after a link from…
Reading time in TextMate
June 4th, 2011 at 12:07 am by Dr. Drang
Several people in the Mac blogging world have mentioned how much they like iA Writer’s reading time estimate. I have no interest in iA Writer, but the reading time estimate sounds like a good idea. I decided to add a quick command to TextMate to put the reading time estimate in a popup tooltip. There’s…
