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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )sven September 2nd
cool.
would have liked to see more on bundles etc tho
( )Eric B. September 2nd
Sounds like a good editor. I prefer Vim, though.
( )christopher September 2nd
though though though
( )Jack F September 2nd
Absolutely fantastic! I’m going to spend an hour or two in the next couple of days sorting out all my bundles, then printing out lots of shortcuts so I can remember them all.
It’s worth my $9 just for this tutorial if you ask me.
Thanks a billion.
( )Lane September 2nd
Sounds good, but it would be nice if you write about using a real IDE too.
( )Sufian Hassan September 2nd
ahhhh ads on top
( )dev September 3rd
Pretty good tutorial after i watch but the author sound weird, hard to heard many word.
( )Dan Harper September 3rd
Haha, sorry
Damn UK regional accents. If I make any other screencasts I’ll be sure to try and speak slower and clearer.
( )dev September 3rd
Oh, i think it will be better that Nettuts enforce that all Screen Cast Must put sub, easy for people who like me, or people who not good for english so can check dictionary
Diego SA September 4th
And for deaf people too!
Marcos Cerutti September 6th
naaah mate terrific accent I should say! but anyway, not only for you, all screencasts should have cc, as Diego said, deaf ppl should have access as well….
PitBull0993 September 3rd
This tutorial is absolutely fantastic. I always asked myself how to use my own snippets without buying TextExpander, and this tutorial answered my question. Good to be Plus-Member!
( )cruiseback September 3rd
@Jake F
If you need to practice your shortcuts etc, there are some great TextMate cheatsheets out there. No need to print anything.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=dIKfSvfeL8KE-Qao-oTqDw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=textmate+cheat+sheet&spell=1
( )Daan September 3rd
Good screencast Dan
I also dugg this post, deep into the ground
( )Mars September 3rd
is there any for windows too?
( )Louis Muloka September 16th
check out http://www.e-texteditor.com/
( )Yigit Ozdamar September 3rd
It looks really cool. I think I need to get plus membership.
( )Juan C Rois September 3rd
@Dan –
I’m thinking about switching my text editor, currently I’m using Dreamweaver but after seeing your screen cast and some other in this site, I’ve started to think that there might be a better option for me.
Other than TextMate, would you recommend any other text editors?
Thanks
( )Dan Harper September 3rd
Well Coda and Espresso are both very popular amongst web designers. Personally I haven’t used either of them since trying TextMate.
But pretty much anything is better than Dreamweaver now – especially on a Mac
( )Juan C Rois September 3rd
Great, thanks for the tip. At least I know now not to pay $600 for the CS4 upgrade, I’d rather pay only for the PS upgrade.
I’m on a mac, and I guess I was just being short sighted about my text editor.
Thank you very much Dan.
Dan Harper September 3rd
If you’re on Windows, but want TextMate, try out E-TextEditor (http://www.e-texteditor.com/).
( )It even supports most TextMate bundles!
Kiran September 3rd
Exactly wondering that question and you got the answer, Excellent!
( )Gotti September 4th
Thanks, this might be helpful. Textmate en CSSEdit are my favorite editors
( )Sean September 4th
I have been looking for something like this for ages!!!
Thanks for another great tutorial.
( )yauuik September 8th
I think shortucuts are not the same with azery keyboard.
( )⌃ ⇧ , New HTML tag pair doesn’t works for me
Dan Harper September 10th
Are you using an older version of TextMate?
Look under the ‘Bundles’ menu, then ‘HTML’ and look for “Insert Open/Close Tag (With Current Word)”. The shortcut will be next to it.
( )Jaime September 14th
Make sure your filetype is set to html in the lower bar. It’s probably in Text instead of HTML.
( )yauuik September 9th
thanks for deleting my comment
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