Welcome to TextMate Tips!
We’re glad you’ve made it. Hopefully you know a little bit about what TextMate is but just encase you don’t take a look at the links right above this. They will give you a bit of insight into the world of TextMate and TextMate Tips. Tips are being added pretty often so go ahead and subscribe to our feed. Don’t forget, if you really find one useful go ahead and digg it or bookmark it. The links are right there waiting for you to click them!
Replace text within a selection.
Lots of times when using textmate you’ll find that you want to replace characters within a selected area and not the whole document. If this is the case make the selection of the text you want to replace within, then use cmd-f and launch the find/replace panel. Now, type the text you want to find and replace, then hold down the option/alt key and notice the “replace” changes to “in selection”. Bingo you’re done!
New Tips Coming!
Hey everyone. You may have noticed a gap in tips as of late. Primarily this is due to some crazy things that have happened in my life recently. Another reason is I’m the only one adding tips. If you have any little thing you like about TextMate please feel free to sign up and add away! I’m getting together some new tip goodness that should be up soon. Keep you eyes out!
Blogging with TextMate
This is another tip I found just from experimenting with the Bundles. There’s a great bundle for Blogging straight from TextMate and I use it most of the time I write in my blogs now. You can find it under Bundles > Blogging (imagine that). It takes a little setting up first so let’s go over that. Note that my experience is limited to WordPress so that will be the context of this tip.
Share Your Code in Color
This tip if for anyone who ever shows their code to someone else for the sake of sharing, comments or criticisms or working on projects together. In the TextMate bundle you have a few options to take the code of your current document and export to an html file or even directly to the web. Let’s explore a few of these options.
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Optimize for Continual Coding
I probably spend an average of 6 to 7 hours a business day looking at a computer screen. The majority of that time can be divided into three categories: text editor, terminal, & browser. I’m a young buck and I certainly don’t want to be ruining my eyes anytime soon (or ever for that matter). Because of this I try to stay proactive on my approach to safely staring at a monitor all day. One of the steps I have taken is to adjust the background color of TextMate.
TextMate offers color customization to the users. It comes with (about) 19 presets available and you can create your own. I never really got into color changing because I like the default colors. I did, however, adjust the background to a soft beige color RGB(197,194,178) or Hex value #C5C2B2.
You can access this setting by going to TextMate > Preferences (or the OS X Preferences shortcut ⌘+,) and click the Fonts and Colors tab.
Customize Your Icon
So you have TextMate and you’re ready to code away, right? Maybe not quite. I don’t know about everyone else but I like making things that I buy personalized to some degree. This spans from homes & cars to guitars and computers. There is a nice collection of alternative icons for TextMate on their Wiki. If you’re the icon-changin-type then take a look and customize your TextMate icon.
Alternative Icons | TextMate Wiki
Welcome to TextMate Tips!
We’re glad you’ve made it. Hopefully you know a little bit about what TextMate is but just encase you don’t take a look at the links right above this. They will give you a bit of insight into the world of TextMate and TextMate Tips. Tips are being added pretty often so go ahead and subscribe to our feed. Don’t forget, if you really find one useful go ahead and digg it or bookmark it. The links are right there waiting for you to click them!