Comments on: TextMate and Xcode

By: Tiago

Tiago — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:50:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Very helpful!

By: Slusser

Slusser — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:38:59 +0000

I love vi too. So when in Textmate, I use the Vi plugin.
IMPORTANT — I’ve learned to use the Vi shortcuts and Emacs and Textmate shortcuts, so I’m really using three editors’ shortcuts at the same time. A bit confusing, but using Emacs shortcuts and save time when you are in insert mode in Vi. Using Textmate shortcuts like Apple + L to goto a line b/c the Vi version doesn’t work in the plugin.

Does anyone know how to disable the vi textmate plugin so I can use esc to finish completions?

By: ssmithtone

ssmithtone — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:32:09 +0000

auto complete is alt and escape and u can index the header files for a class from the objective-c bundle menu now for sdk classes and custom classes

By: Benjohn

Benjohn — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:33:16 +0000

Another time saver for getting the folder in to text mate without needing the finder at all…

In xCode, “command click” on the project name or project icon at the top of the xCode window. You’ll be given a drop down list of icons from that file, through the enclosing folders, right up to your machine’s root. You can take any of those folders or files and simply drag it off in to xCode, or should you wish, click on it to open it up.

This is a standard feature of OS X applications (I guess part of the document based application framework) but hardly anyone seems to know about it!

Cheers!

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.