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You haven't run into crashes or been disappointed in its search feature?

by mcav 17y ago

mishmash 17y ago
Not much, but yeah search does brick out occasionally and TM must be restarted.
swombat 17y ago
I haven't. I use it every day, for a number of purposes from updating my blog to working on the Woobius codebase (in both Rails and Flex/AS3), and I haven't had any issues whatsoever. The global search-and-replace works great, too. I'd quite like split-screen editing, that's my main bug-bear, but I've actually structured my use of TextMate around that - I basically just have several Textmate windows open. I've been meaning to switch to Emacs for that, but I suspect that managing buffers (and making sure they end up in the right pane) will take as much effort as dragging a few windows around.
- mcav 17y ago
  That's good — you've had better luck than I. It has crashed somewhat randomly from time to time for me, usually when I'm working with a lot of files or doing a search. Search works well for me, but it's sometimes slow and could be designed more effectively.
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- mmc 17y ago
  "but I suspect that managing buffers (and making sure they end up in the right pane) will take as much effort as dragging a few windows around." I think you'd be surprised. In my experience I have a fixed set of windows (not os windows, but panes, as you called them), and easily and quickly switch between them with Iswitch-buffers: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IswitchBuffers http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IswitchBuffers this add-on gives you incremental-search to choose among open buffers, and usually it only takes a couple of keystrokes to get the one I want - so instead of moving the mouse around and clicking somewhere small and dragging things around, I am back in business after something like 'C-x b sh' - control-x, b to invoke iswitchb, and 'sh' to get me to my shell buffer...
  - swombat 17y ago
    The problem I think I'll have is not so much the actual switching of buffers, but making sure they end up in the right pane when first opened.
adw 17y ago
"Ack in Project" is so much better than the built-in search it's not even close.
- bretthoerner 17y ago
  Have you found a replacement for "jump to file"? Command+T is great until you have a lot of same-name files in different directories (it doesn't take the directory into account). e.g. in a Django project it'd be common to have users/models.py, events/models.py, polls/models.py - you press Command+T and you can only search on models.py, if you type "pmod" you don't get polls/models.py. Highly annoying when hopping between files is so common.
acdha 17y ago
No - it crashes less than once a month on my system and I'm using the excellent Ack in Project mentioned by others instead of the built-in search. The Project Plus bundle also gives a nice for large projects but in general Ack is the only one I consider necessary.

You haven't run into crashes or been disappointed in its search feature?

by mcav 17y ago

You haven't run into crashes or been disappointed in its search feature?

mishmash 17y ago

Not much, but yeah search does brick out occasionally and TM must be restarted.

swombat 17y ago

I haven't. I use it every day, for a number of purposes from updating my blog to working on the Woobius codebase (in both Rails and Flex/AS3), and I haven't had any issues whatsoever. The global search-and-replace works great, too. I'd quite like split-screen editing, that's my main bug-bear, but I've actually structured my use of TextMate around that - I basically just have several Textmate windows open. I've been meaning to switch to Emacs for that, but I suspect that managing buffers (and making sure they end up in the right pane) will take as much effort as dragging a few windows around.

mcav 17y ago
That's good — you've had better luck than I. It has crashed somewhat randomly from time to time for me, usually when I'm working with a lot of files or doing a search. Search works well for me, but it's sometimes slow and could be designed more effectively.
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mmc 17y ago
"but I suspect that managing buffers (and making sure they end up in the right pane) will take as much effort as dragging a few windows around." I think you'd be surprised. In my experience I have a fixed set of windows (not os windows, but panes, as you called them), and easily and quickly switch between them with Iswitch-buffers: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IswitchBuffers http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/IswitchBuffers this add-on gives you incremental-search to choose among open buffers, and usually it only takes a couple of keystrokes to get the one I want - so instead of moving the mouse around and clicking somewhere small and dragging things around, I am back in business after something like 'C-x b sh' - control-x, b to invoke iswitchb, and 'sh' to get me to my shell buffer...
- swombat 17y ago
  The problem I think I'll have is not so much the actual switching of buffers, but making sure they end up in the right pane when first opened.

adw 17y ago

"Ack in Project" is so much better than the built-in search it's not even close.

bretthoerner 17y ago
Have you found a replacement for "jump to file"? Command+T is great until you have a lot of same-name files in different directories (it doesn't take the directory into account). e.g. in a Django project it'd be common to have users/models.py, events/models.py, polls/models.py - you press Command+T and you can only search on models.py, if you type "pmod" you don't get polls/models.py. Highly annoying when hopping between files is so common.

acdha 17y ago

No - it crashes less than once a month on my system and I'm using the excellent Ack in Project mentioned by others instead of the built-in search. The Project Plus bundle also gives a nice for large projects but in general Ack is the only one I consider necessary.