Comments on: Why can’t I use TextMate everywhere?

By: dustym

dustym — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:19:07 +0000

It’s all so frustrating too. I’d love to use Camino, but because it doesn’t use native aqua controls so I can’t use the “edit in textmate” input manager for it or FF.

That said I *do* use TextMate in Mail.app and Adium on a daily basis (though less often in Adium). My reliance on the feature has even caused me to shun apps that don’t honor it, such as Yojimbo. OmniOutliner is good for it, though. As is MarsEdit.

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:05:30 +0000

But I’m not willing to live in a browser. And I can’t send all my email to GMail.

By: Assaf

Assaf — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 23:46:32 +0000

wasn’t camino supposed to solve the firefox lameness?

and if you’re willing to live in the browser, switch to gmail and use the external textarea editor.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:29:07 +0000

dustym,

When I open something from Safari to edit in TextMate, then I click on the Safari icon in the Dock or try to ⌘-tab to it, it won’d respond and become active. I presumed that this was a limitation neccessary to keep from messing things up.

Hmm, I just went and re-did the “edit in TextMate” process and it seems that its been improved to removed the limitation. Yeah! Now if only I could have TextMate embedded in these other environments.

By: dustym

dustym — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:06:44 +0000

Hrm. That’s odd. I don’t experience a block when using TextMate as an external editor. For instance I started this comment, went back to Safari, opened a new tab copied some text in, re-activated the tab, saved, and everything worked fine.

The only annoying thing to me is that I have to re-activate the tab. Well, that and things can get wonky if I edit within the textarea while TextMate is still the active input editor for it. Still, I can understand that it is a cumbersome process. I guess I just use it so much it’s become a part of how I do things.

Ditto on Firefox sucking on the mac.