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!
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!
