Posts tagged ‘textmate’
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…
Leading
May 6th, 2011 at 7:43 am by Dr. Drang
You’ve read this “Text Editor Intervention” article by Watts Martin, right? He makes some good points, especially this passage: First off: if you are a Mac user and compatibility with TextMate is an absolute must-have, let me ask you two questions. Is TextMate 1.5 still working for you? Can you keep living with its limitations?…
Calendars, TextMate, and the iPhone
April 8th, 2011 at 9:16 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve written a couple of posts about my calendar events bundle for TextMate. Its purpose is to allow users to create several events for their calendars in a very short time, avoiding the plodding nature of adding events to iCal. Tonight I used it in a new way. Briefly, the bundle lets you write out…
Increase the TextMate project drawer font size
December 18th, 2010 at 11:05 am by Dr. Drang
Here’s a hint from Allan Odgaard I missed when it was first mentioned in the TextMate mailing list: Revision 1624 now has a defaults for the drawer font size. At the time of writing, this is only available as an (intel) test build: Go to Preferences → Software Update and hold down option (⌥) when…
Minimal?
October 4th, 2010 at 11:01 pm by Dr. Drang
I like what Patrick Rhone does at Minimal Mac, so I’m not happy that the second mention of him on this blog is going to be critical, but I think this video of his is just wrong in many ways. It’s about automating the creation of Markdown links, a topic I have several years of…
Markdown footnotes bundle for TextMate
July 28th, 2010 at 8:11 am by Dr. Drang
There was a recent discussion on the TextMate mailing list about automating the creation of TextMate footnotes. Stephan Hugel, who started the discussion, likes having his footnote text at the bottom of the document and wanted some command/snippet/macro system that would do most of the fiddle work for him. I pointed out my Markdown reference…
The no-server notes wiki
February 10th, 2010 at 4:32 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve just pushed a new version of my unnamed no-server notes wiki to its GitHub repository. Notes can now be organized in subdirectories instead of all being at the top level. Here’s the README. This is a no-server personal wiki system that I created to keep track of project notes for work. I’ve put it…
An odd coincidence
January 15th, 2010 at 7:59 pm by Dr. Drang
Less than 24 hours after my last post, in which I said I wanted to explore build systems other than make to generate my serverless wiki project notes files, Allan Odgaard writes a post on make that leads me to think I shouldn’t be too hasty in abandoning a software tool that’s stood the test…
Extending the Calendar Events bundle for TextMate
January 8th, 2010 at 4:21 pm by Dr. Drang
I’ve added a new command to my Calendar Events bundle for TextMate (described in this post and available in this GitHub repository). The new command saves the generated iCalendar document to a temporary file and opens that file in iCal (or, presumably, BusyCal, if that’s your default calendar program). When an iCalendar file is opened…
Calendar events bundle for TextMate
January 7th, 2010 at 1:13 pm by Dr. Drang
I think most users would agree that entering new events in iCal has always been clumsy and the Snow Leopard update just made it clumsier. I mentioned in a post last week that BusyCal’s entry method was distinctly better, although overall, BusyCal wasn’t enough of an improvement to get me to switch. In the past,…
