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Netvibes and Philosophy Feeds

Joachim Horvath posts on how to use Netvibes, an online news reader, to share philosophy feeds. Well done, Joachim!

2008 08 28 Mark Eli Kalderon BBEdit
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BBEdit 9

BBEdit 9 has just been released. Too many features to list here, but this caught my eye:

BBEdit now handles the (badly chosen, IMO) “txmt:” URL scheme. This allows properly formed “txmt:” URLs generated by the Ruby On Rails “FootNotes” plug-in (and some others) to open files in BBEdit and (optionally) select a requested […]

2008 08 28 Mark Eli Kalderon BBEdit
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Portent

A harbinger of TM2?

2008 08 20 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Clear Pond

A quick TextMate theme I knocked off since I need a light theme but hated the available white themes.

It is hosted at GitHub, so git users can get theme with git clone git://github.com/PhilGeek/clear-pond.git. Other wise, it can be downloaded here.

2008 08 03 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Aquamacs 1.4

Version 1.4 of Aquamacs, the Aqua-native build of Emacs, has just been released, and has a number of interesting features making it an even better OS X citizen:

New multi-tabbed interface similar to Safari. This makes switching between open files faster and more intuitive. Full screen editing now available. This allows you to focus just on editing […]

2008 06 20 Mark Eli Kalderon LaTeX
OS X
Text
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Duke Nukem Forever and TextMate 2

From Crackle: Jace Hall, Ep 1: DUKE NUKEM FOREVER - SNEAK PEEK!

When can we expect TextMate 2 to be released? Here is what Alan Odgaard has to say in the TextMate 2 FAQ:

[…] there is no ETA, and I won’t speak about timing before I am certain I can provide an […]

2008 06 16 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Metablogging: Syntax Coloring

As I wrote in a previous post:

Syntax coloring is a feature of some text editors that displays different parts of the text in different colors depending upon the logical category of the text. This makes it easier to write structured texts whether these be code or markup. … Syntax coloring makes the logical […]

2008 05 27 Mark Eli Kalderon Blog
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GitHub and TextMate

Are you a TextMate user and have a GitHub account? Then Dr Nic’s GitHub bundle may be for you. It requires the git ruby gem, so you need to install it first:

sudo gem install git

To install GitHub.bundle:

cd ~/”Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/” git clone git://github.com/drnic/github-tmbundle.git “GitHub.tmbundle”

If TextMate is running, execute the following line:

osascript -e ‘tell app “TextMate” to reload […]

2008 05 26 Mark Eli Kalderon TextMate
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Git Scatter Graph for TextMate

Here is a command for TextMate’s Git bundle, that’s, well, kind of useless but makes me happy. The code comes from Chris on the GitHub IRC:

require ‘time’ lines = `git log –pretty=format:%ai` times = lines.map { |l| Time.parse l }

dots = [] 0.upto(7) { |wday| 0.upto(23) { |hour| dots « [hour, wday, times.find_all { […]

2008 05 14 Mark Eli Kalderon TextMate
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The Power of Text Meets the Power of the Press

TextMate is used in the development of NY Times online. See here:

It’s our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to “hand code” everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields […]

2008 04 30 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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TextMate, It’s in the DNA

As a testament to the power, flexibility, and ease of modification of TextMate, I draw your attention to a new bundle that allows you to do DNA Sequence Analysis with TextMate. It is cool to see the bioinfomatics people hack TextMate.

2008 04 07 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Word Security Risk

Despite my deep aversion to it, I still have Microsoft Word 2004 on my hard disk. Largely because administrators keep sending me Word docs, not to edit but simply to read, many of which have complex tables that TextEdit fails to render sufficiently well to be usable. (When will people learn to send PDFs? There […]

2008 03 19 Mark Eli Kalderon OS X
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SubEthaEdit 3.1

Continuing our ongoing text editor roundup for OS X, I am pleased to report that SubEthaEdit 3.1 has just been released. The world’s best collaboration text engine just got better. SubEthaEdit now supports:

Automatic port mapping making communication over the internet easier—no manual configuration required Inviting your iChat buddies Friendcasting—the ability to connect to a friend’s friend.

To get […]

2008 03 15 Mark Eli Kalderon LaTeX
OS X
SubEthaEdit
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Gitting TextMate

For those who might want to jump the gun on TextMate’s move to distributed development, Kevin Ballard has mirrored the bundle repository on GitHub at http://github.com/kballard/textmate-bundles/tree/master. Clone away!

2008 03 09 Mark Eli Kalderon TextMate
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TextMate at C4

Allan Odgaard’s discusses TextMate at C4:

2008 03 08 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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C-x M-c M-butterfly

Richard Stallman steps down as the emacs maintainer. Perhaps carried away on butterfly wings…

2008 02 23 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Cha-cha-changes

Changes is out of beta with a 1.0 release. Changes allows you to compare diretories and files and is Leopard only taking advantage of Core Animation and Quick Look. Offering editor support for BBEdit, TextWrangler, TextMate, and Xcode and version control integration for Subversion, CVS, Perforce, Mercurial, Git, Bazaar, and Darcs, Changes is shaping up […]

2008 02 20 Mark Eli Kalderon BBEdit
Changes
FileMerge
Text
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Plain Text Notes and Message URLs in Leopard

Leopard has a small feature that I have often longed for. All my notes are text files in markdown format. URI schemes extend the usefulness of the medium. With the file URI scheme I can link to other files, and with the mailto URI scheme I can send emails. But one thing that I have […]

2008 02 01 Mark Eli Kalderon Markdown
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Text
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Scrivener and the Joy of Text

The New York Times reviews Scrivener and other alternatives to Word. WriteRoom is mentioned favorably (though, I must confess, that while I understand the minimalist appeal of WriteRoom, I fail to see why a text editor wouldn’t serve better) as well as Ulysses and Nissus Writer. For those still smitten with wordprocessing Mellel might have […]

2008 01 07 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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TextMate Themes

Syntax coloring is a feature of some text editors that displays different parts of the text in different colors depending upon the logical category of the text. This makes it easier to write structured texts whether these be code or markup. The Live Parsing Editor written to digitize the Oxford English Dictionary was probably the […]

2008 01 03 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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