Comments on: TextMate and Xcode

By: kitiz

kitiz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:53:31 +0000

I would like to know where I can found the autocomplete with Textmate. In fact, I would like to find the same as in Xcode. Can you help me please ?

Thank you !

By: Zettt

Zettt — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:20:09 +0000

In the video you are saying that you are going up one level in folder structure to drop the folder onto TextMate’s icon.
Here’s a little timesafer: You can click the top of a finder window (the little blue folder) and then drag that one onto TM’s icon. :)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:15:02 +0000

Hi Chad,

it doesn’t have code completion in the sense of an IDE but there are a lot of tab-trigger snippets and a rudimentary code completion via ?+ESCAPE.

Greetings

By: Chad W. Taylor

Chad W. Taylor — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:26:51 +0000

While TextMate looks nice to use; however, I am a Vi editor at heart. Nothing beats the ability to move around and edit as fast in a Vi environment.

MacVim is the preferred Vi editor and truly love it as it does support tabs as well.

I can use MacVim to edit Xcode files but code-completion is what is lacking here. I wonder if it’s the same for TextMate? From the sounds of it, it supports code-completion?

Chad

By: john

john — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:24:45 +0000

David,

Thanks for the comment. I’ve tried the bundle and you are right, it’s works well.

One aspect that I really like about using Xcode is the integration of compiling, running and debugging.

My approach may not be for everyone, however, if nothing else it (once again) demonstrates how flexible TextMate is and that it can provide different things to different people.

John

By: David Bourguignon

David Bourguignon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:10:15 +0000

Why not using the xcode bundle in textmate ?

You can use the import project command and TextMate create a project for you.

You can then build and run with cmd+B and cmd+R.

I usually open a project in xcode and textmate, but I use xcode only for the project management aspect and debugging.

XCode seems quite cool, but sor far, nothing can beat TextMate bundle system.

By: Erik Karulf

Erik Karulf — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:07:49 +0000

You can use “tabs” in XCode, it is just not as intuitive as you would expect from Apple. In the upper left corner there is a list of files that are open in the current window, you can use Option+Apple+Left and Right to flip between the files open in that window. As with all OS X applications you can switch between the current windows open in an application using Apple+`

It isn’t as nice as TextMate’s tab system (or even more addicting Apple+T “Go To File”) so if you are a keyboard shortcut addict, TextMate should still be your primary editor.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:35:16 +0000

Thank you very much for this excellent tip. XCode not having a tabbed interface is a real annoyance but this approach works fairly good and is much more productive than constantly switching between files.

Keep up the good work…