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cool.
would have liked to see more on bundles etc tho
Sounds like a good editor. I prefer Vim, though.
though though though
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.
Sounds good, but it would be nice if you write about using a real IDE too.
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Pretty good tutorial after i watch but the author sound weird, hard to heard many word.
Haha, sorry :) Damn UK regional accents. If I make any other screencasts I’ll be sure to try and speak slower and clearer.
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
And for deaf people too!
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….
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!
@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
Good screencast Dan :)
I also dugg this post, deep into the ground ;)
is there any for windows too?
check out http://www.e-texteditor.com/
It looks really cool. I think I need to get plus membership. :)
@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
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 :)
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.
If you’re on Windows, but want TextMate, try out E-TextEditor (http://www.e-texteditor.com/).
It even supports most TextMate bundles!
Exactly wondering that question and you got the answer, Excellent!
Thanks, this might be helpful. Textmate en CSSEdit are my favorite editors
I have been looking for something like this for ages!!!
Thanks for another great tutorial.
I think shortucuts are not the same with azery keyboard.
⌃ ⇧ , New HTML tag pair doesn’t works for me
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.
Make sure your filetype is set to html in the lower bar. It’s probably in Text instead of HTML.
thanks for deleting my comment
Sorry, but I simply do not understand this.
ctrl + shift + , works
but
link + tab doesn’t do anything.
script + tab doesn’t do anything.
scriptsrc + tab doesn’t do anything.
Clearly I’m doing something wrong. But I cannot find out what.
Any suggestions?
I have trouble creating custom bundles and snippets. I really want to use some custom snippets to make my coding a lot easier. So I need to save some 4 or 5 snippets that I use often. I created 5 custom snippets (3 in HTML and 2 in CSS).
And I prefer tab trigger rather than remembering all those action keys. The problem is the desired snippet is not invoked when I use the tab trigger i set up. My shortcut word is treated as plain text and nothing happens after typing them. I have confirmed that they are not in conflict with the predefined ones. So I don’t know what is causing the problem..
And when it comes to action keys, they works sometimes.. but not every time.. I know this sounds weird. Can u pls help me get rid of this problem by figuring out what might be the cause?
Thanks in advance
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