Scratching My Itch
It’s the little things I’d miss in in TextMate. Like. Really, really little things. Like, say, one key to clean up the annoying cruft of a YouTube link. Boom.
Yes. I know. TMTOWTDI—and there’s certainly far MTO app with which to DI.
But, Lordy, how I’d miss the giant-ass pile of hacks that TextMate lets me apply towards my ongoing quest for sanity.
I probably forgot to mention. I really like my job.
Ready for some Textmate hotness? Okay, then.
<a href="txmt://open?url=file:///Users/USERNAME/path/to/ \ scratch-`date +%Y-%m-%d`_`date +%H-%M-%S`.txt" \ src="scratch-`date +%Y-%m-%d`_`date +%H-%M-%S`'"> \ New at `date +%Y-%m-%d`_`date +%H-%M-%S`</a>
Custom Bundle Snippet that creates a goofy-looking but clickable txmt:// link to “/path/to/2011-03-22_07-52-44.txt”.
Click that link anywhere on your Mac, and you open a new text file—already saved—with that name.
For the five nerds that can actually use this? You’re welcome.
Title:····Spaces·Not·Tabs·Guy··¬
I·know.·I·have·no·idea·how·my·wife·lives·with·me·either.¬
[⇧embiggen screengrabs⇧: Twilight | IR Black | Brilliance Dull]
For Nerds Only: My Favorite Textmate Themes
@hotdogsladies I would sacrifice a ridiculous amount of children/seniors/animals to know what TextMate theme you use.
You can keep your seniors, Ron. But, thanks for the request.
Above are screengrabs of the three Textmate themes that have been my go-tos over time.
- Twilight (built-in, I believe) had been the undisputed champ since Christ was a corporal (and as I use it again right this sec, I’m tempted to go back).
- IR Black has been my theme for a few months, and I do like it. It’s got TONS of elements, so (time permitting) it’d be easy to hack on
- Like pretty much everything subtleGradient makes, I also really like Brilliance Dull (and its sibling, Brilliance Black). Both are super-useful and lovely, especially it you’re a serious coder.1
Biggest problem I run into with many themes is that, since I spend pretty much all day in MultiMarkdown, I obviously favor themes that work well with my preferred flavor of Markdown. And, for whatever reason, I guess a lot of the elements in MMD just aren’t “caught” by many themes. So, there’s often not the level and kind of syntax highlighting I’d find useful.
Of course, I have to mention that MMD’s daddy, Fletcher Penney, was kind enough to build us fanboys a MultiMarkdown theme (zip) as part of his terrific MMD bundle, but, unfortunately, for my own needs…
- It’s so limited to MMD that it leaves most very other kind of TM doc looking like vanilla plain txt; and
- I just can’t roll with light-background themes. My eyes are just too old.
Obviously, if any of you’all are theme-fishing, the best place to start is probably on the UserSubmittedThemes page of the Textmate wiki.
FWIW, I really try not to obsess over stuff like themes for text editors, the style and color of my bash prompt, or what have you. But, on the other hand, I do spend a lot of my day staring at this junk, so it really pays to find anything that will make that environment more pleasant and headache-free.
P.S.: It’s nothing short of sorcery how Pastie knows and utilizes whichever theme you were using when you posted. Crazy.
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Do not miss Thomas’s insane GitHub repository. In particular, I recommended every TextMate fan immediately grab and learn both SelectStuff.tmbundle and the titular subtlegradient.tmbundle. For reasons you’ll soon discover, both these bundles are simply magic. ↩
Um. 'Okay -a `okay`'
I have a terrible feeling that this might be a trap.
If you don’t hear from me in the next 5 minutes or so, please send a qualified neckbeard to come find me.
Also, tell my family I love them—and I’m very sorry I tried to do anything in the Terminal before 6am.
Je ne regrette rien!
Update: 2010-05-12_05-44-37
GHC fixed. Haskell updated. Pandoc (finally) installed.
You may call off your neckbeards.
Disco.
Me too, Marco. Me too.
