From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-23T10:25:48+09:00
Subject: Re: real IDE for os-x

On Sep 22, 2006, at 8:12 PM, dc wrote:

> people seem to rave about textmate, and while its awesome compared to
> notepad on windows, its not really an IDE.

Well, I'm a TextMate fan, so I'll comment on how I use it to do these  
things...

> - list of functions (at least for your current open file)

The lower right hand corner of the TextMate editing window has a  
symbol menu for this, but see below for an even better solution.

> - dropdown possible methods for library (or your own) classes
> eg if i type file.  i want to have "open / read" etc popup

In TextMate, we handle this with completions:

http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/working_with_text#completion

and snippets:

http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/snippets#snippets

> - goto method defintion

Apple-shift-T.  Type an abbreviation for your method and press  
return.  The matcher is quite clever so typing s-w-r can take you to  
save_without_revision().

> - after compile/run, jump straight to error line

This is very doable with a TextMate command using HTML output.  I  
show an example of how to do this (for Ruby) in the TextMate book:

http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/textmate/index.html

The example is in the beta portion of the book that has already been  
released.  It needs a slight tweak to work with the latest version of  
TextMate.  Replace the e_pre() call with a call to htmlize().  I will  
fix this in the next beta.

The beta chapters also have great coverage of snippets, which I  
mentioned above.

James Edward Gray II