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I'm coming from jedit, and before that any other basic terminal text editor. I've never been one for help/bundles/snippets/macros/etc My gripes come for instan

by axod 18y ago

I'm coming from jedit, and before that any other basic terminal text editor. I've never been one for help/bundles/snippets/macros/etc My gripes come for instance when I go back to do something, and TextMate adds in extra idiocy eg a = 9+6 // Oops, need to double all that - (9+6)*2, lets bracket it up... a = ()9+6 // WTF TextMate added a close bracket that is clearly useless My remaining gripe with TextMate is that I have soft tabs enabled, so pressing tab inserts 4 spaces. But when I press left arrow, it skips over 4 spaces at a time, or sometimes just 1 space if it's not at a tab boundary! I want it to only ever move by one space... (Any ideas welcome on this one).

carlosrr 18y ago
If you select the 9+6 and then insert the opening parenthesis it will wrap everything automatically. This is not really intuitive, but the extra idiocy is there for a reason.
- axod 18y ago
  Sure. But I don't want to select text, I want to type/edit the way I want to. I've disabled all the 'insert extra random characters' shenanigans now.
  - carlosrr 18y ago
    There is an Auto-pair characters checkbox under Text Editing in the preferences.
- 1gor 18y ago
  Does anybody know how to do this in emacs?
Hates_ 18y ago
The way to do it is to select the text you want surrounded (SHIFT + LEFT/RIGHT etc) and then press the opening bracket key. There are other tricks to this as well. If I press " it automatically gives me "" and places the cursor inside. I can then either press CMD+Return to drop me straight to the next line or CMD+left (CTRL-e) to jump to the end. As for moving around, I just use shortcuts such as ALT+left/right or CMD+left/right (CTRL+a/e).
anatoli 18y ago
> I've never been one for help/bundles/snippets/macros/etc And you bought TextMate because... it's cool? I seriously don't understand, why you would buy TextMate, if you don't like using the very things that make it great.
- axod 18y ago
  I'm evaluating it atm. If you know of something exactly like TextMate that is just a text editor (syntax highlighting), and not an "interfering code suggestion tool", I'd be interested.
  - anatoli 18y ago
    Smultron, BBEdit, TextWrangler... depends on what you need, TextWrangler and Smultron are probably the simplest, although they're also limited in certain ways.
    - axod 18y ago
      Hey thanks, TextWrangler looks much more promising than TextMate.
      - jamongkad 18y ago
        You might want to try Vim.
eli 18y ago
That bugs me too. I wonder if I could hack the bundle to fix it...

by axod 18y ago

carlosrr 18y ago

If you select the 9+6 and then insert the opening parenthesis it will wrap everything automatically. This is not really intuitive, but the extra idiocy is there for a reason.

axod 18y ago
Sure. But I don't want to select text, I want to type/edit the way I want to. I've disabled all the 'insert extra random characters' shenanigans now.
- carlosrr 18y ago
  There is an Auto-pair characters checkbox under Text Editing in the preferences.
1gor 18y ago
Does anybody know how to do this in emacs?

Hates_ 18y ago

The way to do it is to select the text you want surrounded (SHIFT + LEFT/RIGHT etc) and then press the opening bracket key. There are other tricks to this as well. If I press " it automatically gives me "" and places the cursor inside. I can then either press CMD+Return to drop me straight to the next line or CMD+left (CTRL-e) to jump to the end. As for moving around, I just use shortcuts such as ALT+left/right or CMD+left/right (CTRL+a/e).

anatoli 18y ago

> I've never been one for help/bundles/snippets/macros/etc And you bought TextMate because... it's cool? I seriously don't understand, why you would buy TextMate, if you don't like using the very things that make it great.

axod 18y ago
I'm evaluating it atm. If you know of something exactly like TextMate that is just a text editor (syntax highlighting), and not an "interfering code suggestion tool", I'd be interested.
- anatoli 18y ago
  Smultron, BBEdit, TextWrangler... depends on what you need, TextWrangler and Smultron are probably the simplest, although they're also limited in certain ways.
  - axod 18y ago
    Hey thanks, TextWrangler looks much more promising than TextMate.
    - jamongkad 18y ago
      You might want to try Vim.

eli 18y ago

That bugs me too. I wonder if I could hack the bundle to fix it...