Textmate favourite features
Sometimes you just forget the stuff you take for granted, but often you hear of people new to apps and not realising what’s there. Here’s a couple of the features of Textmate that are probably my most used…
CMD + T - Go to file, pretty hot. List of files is shown in a dialog that it is in order of last edited/open file, with the last file you worked on as being selected. So I have a big habit of spending my life CMD+T then Enter all day along. Also by typing will filter down the list of files pretty damned fast.
CMD + SHIFT + T - Go to symbol. Hotter still. This allows you to easily navigate through a file with ease. If you single click on a method name, it jumps to that method without closing the dialog box, double clicking closes the dialog. Particularly handy working on a large class/module this tends to stay open all day jumping back and forth between methods.
CTRL + SHIFT + A - Hottest, subversion integration. Diffing from the commit dialog is a godsend.
What’s YOUR favourite feature of Textmate ?
4 Comments, Comment or Ping
Matt Giger
I love the Textmate/Transmit integration. I’ve remapped my keys, but I just click Cmd-Shift-U and it automatically uploads through ssh to my server. It saves so much time!
Jun 26th, 2008
Adam Wisniewski
Just realized the other day that a feature I used in Eclipse was in TextMate too..
If you hold down CTRL and hit the left and right arrow keys the cursor skips intelligently through items in CamelCase strings and underscore-separated compounds. Not my _favourite_ feature, but has proven itself useful.
My _favourite_ is probably TextMate’s low memory and CPU footprint. Lets me use my laptop on my lap. This is probably more of a result of “lack of features” though
Jun 26th, 2008
Sam
@adam Lack of features I highly doubt we’ve scratched the surface
I really love the simple, and intuitive way TextMate implements the snippets. I never could bother using snippets with eclipse to the extent I do with TextMate. It is soooooo much easier to use, share and find new bundles with loads of snippets online, that install with a simple double-click(take that eclipse).
Jun 26th, 2008
Karl
Apple-shift-B and ctrl-option-B just plain rock. If you cursor is in a tag, or between quotes Apple-shirt-B selects everything in between the quotes.
Jun 27th, 2008
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