Upcoming changes to OS X have caused us to make some changes in TextMate that have been causing some users to see a env: ruby18: No such file or directory error when running bundle items. This is caused by improper setup of the PATH variabl…
The release of Mavericks has seen a new wave of users switching over to the alpha release so this is a good time to go over the common questions people are having: Switching themes can be done from the View → Themes menu, to change the font…
If you are using TextMate 2.0 then the following info does not apply to you. Many of the bundle items in TextMate are written with ruby and were coded for version 1.8. With Mavericks Apple has updated the default version of ruby to 2.0. Whi…
For those that live on the cutting edge by watching the nightly builds of the 2.0 alpha you have been cutoff from automatic updates by an unfortunate bug introduced in a recent build (a9401). You can update by opening preferences (⌘,) and s…
Recently we have been getting reports of some issues with Transmit, QuickCursor and other applications that use Apple events to communicate with TextMate. Thanks to Brian Webster and Michael Tsai this has been tracked down to a bug in the a…
While updating the TextMate source to use ARC I needed to update the following code: To use the new autorelease blocks: We can find all the autorelease constructs using a regular expression like the following: I made the assumption here tha…
I was recently dealing with issue #157 and wanted to store a reference in the source. Of course this reference should be an underlined link and allow us to easily go to the online issue, yet I don’t want a 50 character long URL in the sourc…
Today I am happy to announce that you can find the source for TextMate 2 on GitHub. I’ve always wanted to allow end-users to tinker with their environment, my ability to do this is what got me excited about programming in the first place, a…
As in many other areas, TextMate 2’s layout engine has received a bunch of improvements under the hood. It’s sometimes hard to show these changes, at least until new features taking advantage of the changes begin to bubble up to the surface…
Since the earliest word processors Find and Replace has been a standard feature expected by users editing almost any content. You can score extra points with the programming crowd if you support Regular Expressions, the swiss army knife min…
Today we are pushing out a new nightly build for the 2.0 alpha that changes the minimum OS requirement to start requiring Snow Leopard, this change was made after checking the current statistics for 2.0: 10.8 2.0% 10.7 86.7% 10.6 11.1% 10.5…
TextMate has always had completion and, as I’ve said before, it remains the best reason to wear out your ⎋ (esc) key. The idea is simple and I bet you are already familiar with it, but, just to recap, if I had this Ruby code: I could later