TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac

James Edward Gray II097873923X

TextMate is a powerful tool for programmers, web designers, and anyone else who regularly needs to work with text files on Mac OS X. TextMate focuses on pragmatic automation, which means it will save you time time that’s always in short supply. See how your lowly text editor can become a hard working member of your staff.TextMate is a full-featured text editor available for Mac OS X that can greatly enhance your text manipulation skills. TextMate is actually a thin shell over a personalized team of robot ninjas ready to do your bidding. Let’s face it, who doesn’t want their very own team of robot ninjas?With TextMate you can do your normal work, but signal the ever-watchful ninjas as you go. At your command, they will launch into action, slicing through text, building repetitive structures of data in the blink of an eye, and much more. They will even post to your blog, handle your IRC conversations, and read your email.Inside this book you will learn how to teleport instantly to the exact line of the file you need to be on, edit the data with the briefest incantations of power, and banish the end result to the land of your choosing. It’s magic, as you can plainly see.Leave the days of dull work behind. Learn your spells, gain access to your team of robot ninjas, and you too will be able to edit text so effortlessly that everyone watching over your shoulder will be forced to ask, “Wait, how did you do that?””

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 9
A Brief History of TextMate……Page 12
In These Pages……Page 14
The Mac Keyboard and Mouse……Page 15
Installing TextMate and Tools……Page 17
The Editing Window……Page 19
Editing……Page 21
Creating a Project……Page 22
Moving between Files……Page 24
Shortcuts for Creating Projects……Page 25
Folder References……Page 26
Moving Around……Page 29
Making Selections……Page 33
Editing……Page 36
Without Using a Regular Expression……Page 45
Mixing in Regular Expressions……Page 49
Automations……Page 58
The TODO Bundle……Page 59
The HTML and CSS Bundles……Page 62
The Ruby Bundle……Page 65
The Rails Bundle……Page 67
The Subversion Bundle……Page 69
The Math Bundle……Page 72
The Markdown Bundle……Page 73
The Blogging Bundle……Page 77
The Mail Bundle……Page 78
The Text Bundle……Page 79
The Source Bundle……Page 80
The TextMate Bundle……Page 81
Basic Snippets……Page 83
Tab Stops……Page 86
Macros……Page 97
The Macro Editor……Page 100
Shell Commands……Page 103
TextMate Commands……Page 105
Drag Commands……Page 114
Building Bundle Menus……Page 117
TextMate’s Environment Variables……Page 119
Useful Shell Commands……Page 124
Using TextMate’s Document Parsing……Page 129
bash Support Functions……Page 131
Ruby Support Libraries……Page 133
Hooking Into Save Operations……Page 134
Streaming Command Output……Page 136
Building Interactive Commands……Page 139
Compound Automations……Page 142
Languages……Page 145
The JSON Data Language……Page 146
Language Grammar Reference……Page 166
Preferences……Page 176
Themes……Page 182
Beyond This Book……Page 186
B……Page 188
C……Page 189
F……Page 190
I……Page 191
M……Page 192
P……Page 193
R……Page 194
S……Page 195
T……Page 196
W……Page 197
Y……Page 198