Objective-C Part 2
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

Part 2 of demonstrating features specific to Objective-C/C++.

This time: documentation lookups, reformatting method signatures, and auto-insertion of brackets, alloc/init, and missing include lines.

Blogging From TextMate
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

The blogging bundle allows you to post or update blog entries, preview them, upload accompanying images, and supports the various humane text formats in addition to plain HTML.

This screencast shows how to set it up and demonstrates fetching, posting, and image upload.

Searching and Hyperlinking
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

First a short intro to how you can search the bundle items.

Then a few actions related to turning book titles into canonical Amazon links and/or making words/phrases links with Google’s “I Feel Lucky” but without using a web browser.

Ruby Unit Tests and More
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

James Edward Gray shows how to apply unit tests to solving Ruby Quiz #84: Generating Pascal’s Triangle. In the process he also demonstrates a lot of features from the Ruby bundle and explains conventions and rationale behind them

Text Transformations (in HTML)
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

Various useful key equivalents and text transformations for HTML, amongst others how to obfuscate email addresses in your web page.

Using tm_dialog Part 1
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

The new system in TextMate for presenting dialogs allows you to create a custom interface in Interface Builder and then ask TextMate to present it as was it native. This is without writing any code at all.

AppleScript Bundle Part 1
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

Jacob Rus demonstrates the basics of the AppleScript bundle, including running scripts from within TextMate, adding basic user-interactive dialogs, and looking up AppleScript documentation.

AppleScript Bundle Part 2
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

Jacob Rus shows how to integrate TextMate’s AppleScript bundle with Script Editor, including installing the Edit in TextMate input manager, saving compiled script applications and droplets from Script Editor, and quickly opening applications’ scripting dictionaries.

Filter Through Command
Category: Tools > Textmate      Posted: 18 May 07

Short example of using TextMate’s Filter Through Command functionality. This tool allows you to send input from TextMate to shell commands and use the output produced by those commands as needed.