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Over 20 fast and furious timesaving recipes for using TextMate efficiently and effectively

  • Hit the ground running using the powerfully versatile text and code editor TextMate from Macromates
  • Attention on keyboard shortcuts and multiple routes to actions to satisfy anyones preferred coding style.
  • Installing and use several extremely helpful bundles such as Todo, Zen Coding, Markdown, and more.
  • Extensive coverage on navigating and searching one or many files, in and out of projects
  • Learn skills on utilizing the shell command-line and macros to boost your productivity

In Detail

Not all text editors are created equal. TextMate was created with versatility and power to the developer. Whether you want to organize your files in projects, utilize the efficiency of code completion, take advantage of the thousands of publicly available bundles, or gain insight using powerful regular expression searching, TextMate is an essential and easy-to-use tool you need in your development arsenal.

TextMate How-To is a practical guide filled with conventional recipes on using one of the most popular text editors on the OS X platform. It is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn how to code more efficiently and effectively, no matter what programming or scripting language you use.

This book will guide the reader through using TextMate for practical purposes. It will start with configuring the application, then cover navigation and editing of files, and finish with bundles and advanced features. Throughout the book, the reader will quickly master the key features of the application through easy to follow tasks.

Using this book, the reader will learn the most common text editing and coding tasks including navigation through the document and searching of text. The reader will then learn about working with and navigating between files and projects as well as utilizing bundles to greatly speed up development. Finally, explore the ability to use shell commands and macros to increase productivity.

With just a few hours, TextMate How-To will teach the reader everything necessary to hit the ground running with this powerful text editor.

What you will learn from this book

  • Configuring TextMate, including installing themes
  • Navigating text and files quickly and easily
  • Converting text using the best and most useful methods
  • Searching using various methods whether in one or multiple files
  • Creating and utilizing projects
  • Installing bundles quickly and easily
  • Overview of some of the more useful bundles
  • Utilizing shell commands and variables
  • Recording and using macros to speed up your editing

Approach

TextMate How-To address essential tasks through recipes to hit the ground running and get started with practical solutions to common questions

Who this book is written for

This book is geared toward beginning and intermediate web developers and designers who want to expedite their coding. Though TextMate can also work very well as a plain text editor, some experience with a programming or scripting language whether its HTML, CSS, PHP, or Ruby is helpful to understand the depth to some of the examples provided.

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Copyright 2012 Packt Publishing

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First published: October 2012

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Author

Chris Mears

Reviewers

Shifra Pride Raffel

Simone Silvestroni

Acquisition Editor

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Commissioning Editor

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Technical Editor

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Copy Editor

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Project Coordinator

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Proofreader

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About the Author

Chris Mears lives in San Francisco and is the lead web developer at Canned Banners, a startup he co-founded. Though he considers himself a generalist when it comes to technology, he finds true passion developing for the Web. When he's not thinking and dreaming code, he enjoys going to concerts, practicing his guitar, homebrewing beer, and tea snobbery. This is his first book.

I'd like to thank Anna for her support and proofreading throughout the writing of this book. I'd like to thank my friends and family (and family of friends), who have given me words of encouragement. Last, but certainly not least, I'd like to thank my friend and past colleague, Shifra, for being a great technical editor andfixing all of my grammatical mistakes.

About the Reviewers

Shifra Pride Raffel is a Java developer in the Bay Area. She has been developing software for 14 years, has worked as an Agile software development process consultant for Pivotal Labs, and currently works for MSCI in Berkeley (her technical reviewing of this book reflected only her opinion and not that of MSCI).

Simone Silvestroni is a multidisciplinary designer and developer, working in web UI for 12 years Milan and London.

Starting as a print designer and desktop publisher in 1993, he crossed through different creative and technical fields web design and coding. His key skill is turning raw sketched ideas into live interfaces, studying and modifying them through user tests always keeping a eye on accessibility and typography.

Simone is also a graduated musician, a sound designer and a bassist.

He worked for the biggest publishing company in Italy (RCS) for years, joined a startup in ebruary 2000, bec a team leader sound and web design until the end of 2004, working the prototype for a Playtation 2 platform game.

He co-founded his own company in 2004 and co-rn it until the end of 2007, when he joined a full-service web agency le the user xperience team for four years. After relocating to London, UK, he joined a online gaming company, eventually co-founding his new startup, UI Farm Ltd, a small UI and UX agency focused on responsive design and riding the incoming mobile wave.

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Preface

TextMate is a highly extensible Mac OS X GUI text editor that has gained quite a bit of developer notoriety through the years. Created in 2004 by Allan Odgaard, TextMate 1 started out as a simple editor. By 2006, when TextMate 1.5 was released, it won the Apple Design Award for Best Developer Tool, and has gained a vast community backing.

In August 2012, TextMate 2 was released under GNU General Public License and its source code is available at Github. However, this guide will cover the most popular version of the software, TextMate 1.5.

The goal of this book is to provide its readers a succinct set of recipes to become familiar with TextMate's most useful features and bundles, in order to hit the ground running and code more quickly and effi ciently.

What this book covers

Configuring TextMate , guides you through the most common configuration topics so you can customize your TextMate experience quickly.

Installing themes , covers downloading and installing themes to personalize your document window and code coloring.

Quickly navigating to text , demonstrates how to navigate the text and document quickly and easily with keyboard shortcuts.

Converting text , provides an overview of the most common built-in text conversions that will speed up your editing.

Moving and aligning text , walks you through how to move and align text in your document.

Manipulating multiple lines and columns of text , provides a very useful recipe for editing multiple lines of text at the same time.

Finding and replacing text , demonstrates TextMate's extremely powerful Find and Replace functionality.

Folding , teaches you how to use Folding to organize code.

Bookmarking , walks you through using bookmarks to quickly navigate to important lines.

Creating projects , covers creating and saving projects through various methods, including opening directories, dragging-and-dropping, and using the command line.

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