8949 Released

I was delighted to see a significant update to the alpha released earlier today, with some much anticipated features/settings added. The big items here are the ability to disable text aliasing, the ability to put the file-browser on the right side of the window, and the option for HTML output to have its own window. See below for the complete release notes:

2011–12–16

  • HTML output can open in its own window: defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview htmlOutputPlacement window.
  • Anti-alias can be disabled: defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview disableAntiAlias -bool YES.
  • File browser can be placed on the right side: defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview fileBrowserPlacement right.
  • With multiple carets, ⌘-clicking one of them removes it (i.e. it’s a toggle).
  • Carriage returns (<CR>) on the general clipboard are converted to regular newlines when pasting.
  • Rename help book to “TextMate 2” which fixes issues where Help → TextMate Help showed TextMate 1.5’s help book.
  • TextMate 1.x and 2.0 can now both run at the same time.
  • Setting TM_HG and TM_GIT in Preferences is no longer eclipsed by the default properties (which set them to point at /opt/local/bin).
  • Fix potential crash when deleting bundles on disk (rm -rf).

File Browser keyboard shortcuts

A big thanks to macromates for this list of key commands for use when the file browser is in focus:

⌘⇡   Go to Enclosing Folder
⌘⇣   Open
⌘⇠   Go Back
⌘⇢   Go Forward
↩    Rename
␣    QuickLook
⇧⌘N  New Folder
⌥⌘N  New Tab
⌘D   Duplicate
⌘⌫   Delete
⇧⌘C  Go to Computer
⇧⌘H  Go to Home
⇧⌘D  Go to Desktop
⇧⌘G  Go to Folder…
⇧⌘F  Search Selected Folder
⌘C   Copy Path
⌘O   Open
⌘[   Go Back
⌘]   Go Forward

As well as these mouse commands:

Single-click icon to open (or double click name).

Hold ⌥ when single-clicking a package (e.g. tmBundle) to descend into the package.

Hold ⌥ to “close other” if clicking a regular (text) file.

(Quicklook? Nice.)

SmartFolders

You can access a “Smart Folder” from the top bar of the folder drawer by clicking on the purple folder with a gear on it. This folder gives you a view of ‘Uncommitted Changes’ and ‘Untracked Files’ in your project*.

smart folder on textmate

You can select files you want to commit using the Git bundle’s “Commit…” command (makes it easier if assign a shortcut to this menu item — maybe ⌘⌥⌃C — though you can use this tip to find one that doesn’t conflict).

You can also access a diff viewer from here which opens within textmate itself. Not ideal compared to GitX or Github, but for small commits it’s nice to not have to switch away from Textmate.

*This requires that you are using a source control system such as Git, Subversion or Mercurial, and that you have configure the proper path in .tm_properties.