TextMate

Introduction

This page is dedicated to information, tips, and tricks related to TextMate on the MacOS.

Tips and Tricks

• TextMate shortcuts you should be using.
• Trimming Trailing Spaces With Text Mate
• Hashes
• Blocks
• Don’t Leave the Editor
• RDoc
• Counting Iterators
• Declarations
• Declarations Continued
• Ruby on Rails File Navigation
• Showing hidden files in the project viewer

PlugIns

• ProjectPlus - Extends the functionality of project-related feature. Following the link to learn more.

Bundles

• Ack in Project - Uses the Ack library to provide much faster searching over the default grep capabilities.
• GetBundles - Adds a convenient GUI interface for acquiring additional bundles. Follow the instructions below to install:
  1. mkdir -p ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles
  2. cd !$
  3. svn co http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Review/Bundles/GetBundles.tmbundle/
  4. osascript -e ‘tell app “TextMate” to reload bundles’
• Ruby Debug - Adds debugging capabilities within TextMate.
• RubyAMP - Another bundle that adds debug support.
• Rfactor - Adds Ruby refactoring support to TextMate. Learn more here.