Strip trailing whitespace on Save with …callbacks!

Open the bundle editor (⌃⌥⌘B) and open “Text” → “Menu Actions” → “Converting / Stripping” → “Remove Trailing Spaces in Document / Selection”.

Then in the drawer put callback.document.export in Semantic Class and Document / Replace Document as Input / Output.

Hooray! From now on each time you’ll save a document all trailing space will be stripped!

Bundle Editor

Replicating Edit Each Line In Selection

Here’s a great tip from eirkeirkeirk :

 I noticed the ⌘⌥A command was gone from TM2. But I figured out a way to replicate it.

- Select all the lines you want to edit

- Turn it into a column selection (tap ⌥)

- Then ⌘→ to move all the carets to the end of each line

This is actually better than the previous incarnation because:

- You can actually see the carets, where as before you were typing blindly

- Each caret acts smarter. So you can do things like  ⌥← to move back one word in each line.

He’s also provided a quick video showing it in action: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/364257/editall.mov

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.