Favourite Textmate Commands, Snippets, Bundles, etc

Question

This isn't specifically a general programming question but a lot of textmate users I know end up building a textmate command to do something they often do but as it's on it's own never really release it. Mines Below:

Objective-C Build and Run

For when I'm just quickly writing a small Objective-C command line program, place this in a new command; set input to entire document, output as HTML and set the activation as you want it (I use [apple] + [shift] + R).

gcc "$TM_FILEPATH" -o "$TM_DIRECTORY"tmpTextMateRunObjectiveC -l objc
"$TM_DIRECTORY"tmpTextMateRunObjectiveC
rm "$TM_DIRECTORY"tmpTextMateRunObjectiveC

Answer 1

The only real TextMate enhancement I use (other than language bundles) the ProjectPlus plug-in. It replaces the annoying project drawer with a project panel, adds support for SVN, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Svk, and adds lots of other small stuff.

Here's the feature list from the project page:

• SCM status badges:

  • Support for SVN, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Svk
  • Displayed in the project file list and the window proxy icon

• Swapping the project drawer for a panel

  • Support for ⌃⌥⌘D and ⌃⌘R is kept
  • The sidebar can be placed on either side of the window
  • Since I created this someone has updated the MissingDrawer plug-in with these features, if you wish to use this plug-in instead then you can disable the feature

• Finder colour labels

  • Labelled files are displayed in the project drawer
  • Label can be set through the context menu
• Project-tree state can be preserved when re-opening the project
• QuickLook preview of files in the project file list through the context menu (or ⌥␣ when the file list is focused)
• Sorting options through the project file list context menu
• Display folders on top
• Sort by file extension
• “Open With” option

Answer 2

A nice blog post on how Alex Payne uses TextMate. I highly recommend using the GetBundles bundle, to manage, and update your bundles in TextMate. Very nice for browsing for new bundles, and updates to existing ones.