Before I installed Sequoia, macOS would open the TextMate app in various places on the screen, likely depending on where I last closed it. Now, macOS always opens TextMate on the left side of the screen. I know this has been the case for the Preview app for years, but I'm surprised that I'm now experiencing this with TextMate. Has something changed from Sonoma to Sequoia to cause this?

Some time recently (possibly with the Ventura upgrade; I'm not sure) quicklook behaviour got worse. In particular, *.tex (TeX/LaTeX) files stopped previewing entirely; instead they show a message > The extension com.apple.tips.TipsAppQuicklook-macOS does not implement file previews which seems to be weirdly trying to assign the quicklook to something related to "Tips". I note * ~/Library/Application\ Scripts/com.apple.tips.TipsAppQuicklook-macOS exists, but it is an empty folder. * mdls -name kMDItemContentType gives kMDItemContentType = "org.tug.tex" * I *think* the previews used to be handled by TextMate which also showed full syntax-highlighted previews. TextMate still has an org.tex.tug entry in its Info.plist. * Preview icons are still shown correctly. * Most other text file types seem to work, albeit without syntax highlighting, with an "Open with _some app_" button on the top of the preview window, pointing to TextEdit, Xcode, Textmate, or even Emacs depending on the file type. (Emacs files seem to get syntax highlighting?!) * org.tug.tex does not appear in qlmanage -m plugins, although org.tug.tex.bibtex and org.tug.tex.dvi do. * There is no ~/Library/QuickLook directory. * I have tried qlmanage -r, qlmanage -r cache and a restart, to no avail. Other people have similar problems, as seen on [tex.SE](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/663924/quicklook-on-macos-ventura-not-working-anymore-for-tex-files) **Update**: This [Apple support forum thread](https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254334388) seems to have some more information. It implies that Apple has deprecated old quick look generators, but I don't think that this can be the whole problem, since it seems to work -- including via TextMate -- for some types. **Update 2**: not fixed in 13.1, alas. **Update 3**: [This app](https://github.com/sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight#install-with-homebrew-cask) seems to work as a quicklook previewer for a wide variety of file types, including TeX and CSS. (Thanks to [this answer on the related thread](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/667435/72039).) Any ideas?

I am very new to Mac, coming from Linux. I am using TextMate, and I suddenly discovered I do not know how to launch TextMate from command line. Using completion, nothing looks like TextMate. Where is it located from a command line perspective? Sorry for this odd question that also applies to other software, I guess.

I am slowly beginning to fear the worst with Textmate and the impending release of Lion and how stable Textmate might be on it. So my question is, are there any Textmate alternatives out there that supports the completion feature (Esc key autocompleting) in the same way that Textmate does? It must be as similar as possible to textmate implementation ideally. Meaning: 1. It can autocomplete various language keywords, based on existing language 2. It can autocomplete nearby words. 3. It doesn't generate a dropdown showing options, you should just keep pressing the key to cycle through the options.

When using Textmate, I'm regularly prompted to upgrade: > TextMate 2.0.23 is now available. You have version 2.0.19. Would you like to download it now? However, if I choose the upgrade option, I immediately see a dialog with this error: > TextMate is running on a read-only file system and can therefore not be updated. > > If you downloaded TextMate from the internet then moving it out of the Downloads folder should solve the problem. Textmate isn't in my Downloads folder; it's in /Applications. Its permissions look like this:

drwxr-xr-x@  3 sam   staff    96 15 Feb  2021 TextMate.app

It wasn't installed via brew, so upgrading it that way isn't an option. How could I do an upgrade? Is removing the app and reinstalling it the only way? I'm on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 (19H1519).

I've recently been writing more AppleScript, now that Apple has added Javascript support. But how can I edit and run Javascript Automation code in an editor other than the built-in Script Editor? My ideal editor would be TextMate, but anything that has good syntax highlighting and automatic indenting would be good enough for me.

Is there a way to make it so that in list view in Finder a symbolically linked directory can be expanded like a regular directory? I would just switch to column view, but I'm using TextMate 2's file browser, which appears to use Finder's list view. I have no issue with getting my hands dirty with the console or editing plists if need be - I used Linux for years and fiddled with a Hackintosh for a while before switching to Mac. I'll also understand if The Mighty Apple Hath Spoken. I've just found very little on the topic. (And in my case it's on Macintosh HD so unmounting and remounting is not an option.)

I've recently switched from Linux to Mac. One thing that is really killing my emacs memory muscles right now is the lack of alt+f and alt+b to jump forward and backward by word. I've gotten the meta/option flag flipped in Terminal.app preferences (so alt+. now works as expected), but I haven't found a similar option for Textmate. Even better if I could enable it as a MacOS global setting for the U.S. keyboard (so it would work in all input boxes). At the moment I get the following useless (for me) encodings: alt+f: ƒ alt+b: ∫ How do I remap alt+f and alt+b to jump forward and backward by word?

TextMate2 Alpha comes with a Syntax Highlighting plugin for macOS QuickLook. How can it be disabled without removing TextMate?

Sometime back in the early 2000s I switched from BBEdit to TextMate, but now it seems TextMate gets to be long in the tooth while the good folks at BareBones are still at it. The most convenient feature I am missing is the code completion by pressing the esc-key, which will cycle through suggestions based on the current document as well as a code language library. example: with the following code: private var _hello:String = "Hello"; in Textmate when entering the character _ followed by a keyboard shortcut ( e.g. esc ) I would get the suggestion _hello as _hello is in the current document. if I would type Nu followed by a esc I would get Number since it is defined for the source language. The other feature would be the code snippets. For example: typing fn followed by the tab-key would give me function ():void{ }; with the cursor conveniently placed in front of the parentheses. The basic BBEdit code completion does not seem to achieve the same results. Does anyone here know how to achieve these features? Somehow BBEdit announced Kite support but judging by the absence of any documentation either with BareBones or Kite, I guess they had a fallout of sorts. Any tips greatly appreciated, thanks.

I'm looking at an existing Bundle in TextMate 2's Bundle Editor. **How do I create a new (editable) Snippet in the currently selected Bundle?** Seems like this should be obvious, but I am stumped. Searching the Main Menu contents doesn't reveal any menu commands which would obviously allow Snippet creation. Right-clicking in various related areas of the UI (in hopes of opening a context menu) has proven fruitless. Isn't there a way to create a new Snippet inside the TextMate 2 app itself (presumably in the Bundle Editor)? Or do I have to edit plist .tmbundles to create Snippets? I could have sworn you could easily do this in TextMate 1. The official TextMate docs seem to be version 1.x-specific.

I work with TextMate and R over the terminal. When pasting a lot of code (CMD+C/CMD+V, e.g. 60 lines) it sometimes happens that few characters in the code are scrambled, which then leads to error messages and wrong code execution. For example: > col col onlyDF is turning into > oalyDF These character-replacements seem very random and it is difficult to predict when it happens. The problem is also described here for iterm2: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3160 The explanation provided there is that it is a bug in bash that can lead to buffered input to get lost due to paste speed. Has anyone experienced these problems and found a work-around for the native terminal app in Mac OS? (e.g. by modifying the paste speed, if that is possible in terminal)

Textmate has been around for a while, I bought it in 2006. Is it possible to split windows horizontally and or vertically on Textmate nowadays? Probably someone out there made a kind of Plugin for this :-/ Like C-x 2 when I'm on GNU Emacs to split horizontally or C-x 3 to split vertically and have flexible control on each windows' width or :split on ViM.

Everytime, I want to copy and paste one Javascript code example from a book (in a pdf version) to Sublime Text or Textmate, any " " become “ ” >> the code doesn't work. Is there any way to fix this ? Thanks in advance. Config: OSX Lion, PDF reader : Skim **Update**: For Textmate. the solution is here .

When I want to create a new file through the button (left-bottom one) in the project drawer or in the file menu it takes a long time and blocks TextMate and even blocks TextMate totally in some cases. I've installed the latest version of TextMate and installed all updates available for Mac OS X. Anyone any idea what the problem is?

I'm not entirely sure why this has started happening since this is completely new behaviour and I haven't done any system updates but I have a nice little toolbar app for my Snow Leopard Finder.app that opens the existing folder/or files in TextMate. It used to simply bring up TextMate with the chosen content but since today it instead gives me a prompt asking me to run or quit the script. Here is what the popup looks like: Now… this app/script isn't new, I trust the script and I don't want this popup everytime I use it. So 2 questions: 1. How do I disable this annoying prompt? 2. Why am I all of a sudden getting it when yesterday everything was working fine? Any insight would be much appreciated. For reference the script in question is this one: OpenInTextMate However the MateDot.app script I was using also is doing the same thing. Thanks for reading. Jannis

I'd like to create a TextMate project that consists of all files in a particular folder, with the added stipulation that as files are added to (or removed from) that folder that they be added/removed from the TextMate project. Is this possible? I'd love to have a TextMate project that can mirror the list of files being worked with by the folder storing Elements files...

I do not know what happened to my MacBook, but all the css files are appearing with the web browser icon as you can see in the following image. When I open it it is opening in safari instead of TextEdit/other any editor. This is not happening with other file like .php, .twig, .yml, those all are opening in Text file? Any idea why this is happening and how to correct that? Besides, in-built TextEdit of Mac, I am also using TextMate Editor(latest version 2.0).

I work with php and postgre, and since the stock php doesn't come with postgre I had to install a different php version. So I installed php5 from this website: http://php-osx.liip.ch It's a quick install, just downloaded php5 and its modules and put them in a different directory, now everything works, except the TextMate's "php run". I couldn't find where TextMate makes the call to the php and I wanna change it, any ideas? Thanks.

Is there any way to recover an application once it freezes aside from killing it? --- Context being, I have been working on a couple of files in TextMate 1.5 and TextMate has stopped responding, I have not saved these files, and I really do not want to loose the work. I've killed all other running applications and have let the computer idle for quite some time but TextMate still remains unresponsive. Before it froze I was conducting a simple regex search query within TextMate. The files were only about 2kb in size.