Ciarán Walsh’s Blog

Here is a really tiny plugin which just makes the project drawer display tooltips for long items:

The tooltip only displays if the item is truncated, so they don’t get in the way unnecessarily

Download

Update: In Leopard, truncated items in lists are automatically given a nice tooltip with the full content – if you’ve upgraded and want to remove this plug-in so you don’t get 2 tooltips then you can just delete ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/PlugIns/TooolTips.tmplugin and restart TextMate

Ciarán :: Oct.18.2007 :: Projects, TextMate :: 4 Comments »

This is one for bundle developers – it allows you to use the ⌃⌘T “Select Bundle Item…” mechanism inside of the bundle editor.

Selecting an item will expand the item view and select the corresponding item, and focus the relevant editor field. It also extends the search to show languages too.

Download

Ciarán :: Oct.15.2007 :: Projects, TextMate :: 7 Comments »

Someone on the TextMate mailing list asked if there was a way to have the project outline show Finder colour labels, so here’s a plug-in to do just that.

Get it here

Update:

• Now uses a 70% opactity for the colours to make the labels less overbearing, and draws with a gradient
• Fixed a crash bug
• Added label setting

Update:

You can now set the opacity level for the label colours manually, using this command:

defaults write com.macromates.textmate "TMLabels Opacity" 0.2

where 0.2 is the opacity you want (0 - 1: 0 is fully transparent, 1 is solid).

Ciarán :: Oct.11.2007 :: Projects, TextMate :: 6 Comments »

Here’s a plug-in for TextMate which indicates the Subversion status of files in your project drawer.

Download it here. Simply extract and double click the SVNMate.tmplugin to install it into TextMate (you’ll need to restart TextMate for it to load).

Update: There is a problem with this plug-in right now and I forgot to remove the download link, apologies to anyone who’s been trying to get it work. In short, the problem is that it requires the Subversion libraries, but they can’t always be found. I’m trying to get them linked statically with the plug-in instead (so that the libraries are included). I’ll post an update or an alternate fix soon.

Update: After much blood, sweat and tears I’ve finally got a statically linked Universal build. I hope The download link above is back up, and is the new version. If you experience any problems with the new build (or if you don’t!), drop me a comment below.

Ciarán :: Oct.10.2007 :: Projects, TextMate :: 43 Comments »

Well I finally got around to doing some fixes to my input manager for glyphs today and I thought this would be a good enough reason to finally start a blog, so here it is.

This input manager makes it easy to quickly insert glyphs for any keystroke.

Installation

• You can get the input manager here.
• Extract the zip and move the GlyphInputInputManager folder to ~/Library/InputManagers
• Move the DefaultKeyBinding.dict inside the folder to ~/Library/KeyBindings (Note: if you already have a DefaultKeyBinding.dict then you will need to merge the contents of the two instead).
• You will need to restart any apps before they will load the input manager
• Once installed simply press the activation key (§ by default) and then press the keystroke you want to enter into the current textview

This update improves glyph selection and disables global hotkeys (such as QuickSilver and ⌘⇥).

Note: be sure to follow these instructions if you are on Leopard.

Ciarán :: Oct.07.2007 :: OS X, Projects :: 5 Comments »