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How-To Use Valid XHTML Tags in TextMate

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Here’s a tip I just now found out about. In TextMate, the HTML bundle has a ton of available snippets. Unfortunately, they don’t automatically add the closing trailing slash for certain elements. For example, instead of inserting <br/> or <input type="text"/> TextMate inserts <br> or <input type="text"> (Note the missing ...

Adobe Apollo Bundle for TextMate

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Since the announcement of Adobe’s new cross-platform runtime, Apollo, I’ve been busy building sample applications and dreaming up new ideas. To make this easier, I created a quick Apollo bundle for TextMate. It’s very basic, but it gets the job done. It includes the following items: Application Descriptor Template Debug ...

New TextMate Book Available

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Sitening’s favorite editor for developing websites — TextMate — has a new book for learning the ins and outs of this amazing program. It’s called, “Textmate: Power Editing for the Mac.” The book description says it all, although I’m not sure about the ninja part. TextMate is a powerful tool ...

When Developers Get Cute

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Here’s an idea, let’s program a secret feature in a widely used Mac application and make the icon change to something completely different. That’s exactly what Allan Odgaard (through the prodding of two contributors) did with his application, TextMate. On October 31st the icon for TextMate changed to a special ...

Deprecated HTML Tag Stripper for TextMate

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

Earlier this year, Jon posted a Perl script that Scott wrote which strips out deprecated HTML tags and showed how to run this as a plugin for BBEdit. Slowly over the last few months I’ve convinced Jon to use TextMate as his text editor of choice. The one thing holding ...