TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac (Pragmatic Programmers)

TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac accomplishes exactly what it set it to - show you how powerful TextMate really is and how to use this power to do exactly what you want. James Gray has put something for every level of user into his book. The novice and average TextMate users will gain a breadth of knowledge about keyboard shortcuts as well as seeing how a few of the built in bundles can help them increase efficiency. The TextMate gurus out there can even learn about building their own language grammars for TextMate to recognize.The book is organized into three major sections with appropriate chapters in each. In the first section, Gray shows how to effectively use TextMate's project drawer for managing your work, explains TextMate's Emacs-like keyboard shortcuts, and demonstrates the power of the find and replace features with regular expressions. The second section shows TextMate's strength in automating things you would normally type thereby saving you time and preventing typos. The final section explains how to write a language grammar yourself and provides a concrete example of such an implementation.Despite being somewhat of a manual, the book is very readable with pictures, simple explanations, and some jokes tossed in. Although the book isn't a quick reference or a complete guide, it is very easy to find what you are looking for and contains a large amount of information along with examples. If you are looking for a good reference book on the TextMate editor, definitely look into this one as it should contain everything you need. 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

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?

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?"