Comments on: Customising TextMate with commands

By: Chris Blow

Chris Blow — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:51:31 +0000

I’m about 6 months late here, but thanks for this post. Just found it while looking for a sed syntax reminder, and now I remember how many more tools I am still not using in textmate. And ou can never have too many this-is-why-I-love-textmate posts.

@ed:

I solve the password problem with a public private keypair: http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/66

Isn’t it lovely that you can arguably be *more* secure without using a password??

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:39:54 +0000

@Andy: I know what you mean, I felt the same when moving onto the mac from windows. I really missed the editor I was used to (notepad++). However, once you do give TextMate a little time it doesn’t take long to reap the rewards, it’s an incredibly powerful editor.

By: Andy Hume

Andy Hume — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:59:40 +0000

Just one more reason to actually find the time and open textmate for longer than three minutes.

I suffer from an acute case of argh-its-not-bbedit syndrome.

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:03:49 +0000

@Ed: This is really only scratching the tip of the iceberg as to what is possible with commands. You can set prompts for entering strings with apple script. See the textmate manual for more on what is possible.

By: Ed Eliot

Ed Eliot — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:47:36 +0000

Cool info, thanks. I’d love to be able to create a bundle command that pipes the file through scp though but then it would have to be able to prompt me for passwords and destination paths.