The moment my 30 day evaluation of TextMate expired, I ordered a copy. The last time I got so enthused about an application that I stumped up the cash for it was about 3 years ago, with Delicious Library. Today I used it to edit some NAnt files. Here’s how.
My ancient little Mac Mini already had Subversion. I installed Mono so I could get a working copy of NAnt. You’ll need both.
You need to run this in a Terminal window to enable syntax highlighting for both tools:
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
mkdir -p /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
cd /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
svn co http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Review/Bundles/C%23.tmbundle
svn co http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Review/Bundles/Ant.tmbundle/
osascript -e ‘tell app “TextMate” to reload bundles’
The TextMate bundles repository has some non-ASCII encodings, so the first line just ensures that you have a UTF-8 encoding selected. The middle 4 lines make a directory, and put the Ant and NAnt bundles in that directory. The last line reloads the bundles for you if TextMate is already running. What a pleasant way to do .NET.
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Hrm… I reckon TextMate is a pile of shit compared to most text editors I’ve worked with but I still use it everyday.
Curse it’s letter at a time undo and it’s SVN integration.
Why in a free market is this the best that’s available?
To paraphrase Ivan: I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want: the IntelliJ IDEA developers to buy TextMate and make it into a freakin’ awesome Mac native UNIX mashing code editor that is polished to a high gloss.
Tim,
I totally love the bundles and think they make it worth buying. The thing I miss is the Eclipse ALT-UP keys for moving lines up and down the file.
Subversion integration isn’t a big deal for me yet. I don’t write much code at the moment.
I do have Eclipse on my ancient Mac Mini, but it just feels wrong – and TextMate just feels better. Maybe somebody put something in my drink?
Anyway, gloss is good.
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