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21 Jun 2008: Working With Comments — 29 MiB

This screencast has five tips on working with comments, including toggling comments on/off, commenting a subset of a line, inserting comment blocks and a short section on how to insert todo lists inside a comment block.

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11 Jun 2008: Creating Snippets With Code — 11 MiB

In this screencast Dr Nic shows how a simple class snippet can be made smart and use embedded ruby code to derive the class name from the current file name.

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23 Jun 2007: Dialog Part 2 — 16 MiB

Shows how to have values (such as selected items from a list) returned and how to work with updating on-screen dialogs from your script.

This is a continuation of the “Using tm_dialog Part 1” screencast.

16 Apr 2007: Filter Through Command — 6 MiB

Short example of using TextMate’s Filter Through Command functionality. This tool allows you to send input from TextMate to shell commands and use the output produced by those commands as needed.

Recorded and narrated by James Edward Gray II.

20 Mar 2007: AppleScript Bundle Part 2 — 13 MiB

Jacob Rus shows how to integrate TextMate’s AppleScript bundle with Script Editor, including installing the Edit in TextMate input manager, saving compiled script applications and droplets from Script Editor, and quickly opening applications’ scripting dictionaries.

19 Mar 2007: AppleScript Bundle Part 1 — 11 MiB

Jacob Rus demonstrates the basics of the AppleScript bundle, including running scripts from within TextMate, adding basic user-interactive dialogs, and looking up AppleScript documentation.

28 Oct 2006: Using tm_dialog Part 1 — 23 MiB

The new system in TextMate for presenting dialogs allows you to create a custom interface in Interface Builder and then ask TextMate to present it as was it native. This is without writing any code at all.

This is part one of a series of screencasts about tm_dialog

16 Oct 2006: Text Transformations (in HTML) — 13 MiB

Various useful key equivalents and text transformations for HTML, amongst others how to obfuscate email addresses in your web page.

14 Sep 2006: Ruby Unit Tests and More — 42 MiB

James Edward Gray shows how to apply unit tests to solving Ruby Quiz #84: Generating Pascal’s Triangle. In the process he also demonstrates a lot of features from the Ruby bundle and explains conventions and rationale behind them.

26 Jul 2006: Searching and Hyperlinking — 5 MiB

First a short intro to how you can search the bundle items.

Then a few actions related to turning book titles into canonical Amazon links and/or making words/phrases links with Google’s “I Feel Lucky” but without using a web browser.

20 Jun 2006: Blogging From TextMate — 30 MiB

The blogging bundle allows you to post or update blog entries, preview them, upload accompanying images, and supports the various humane text formats in addition to plain HTML.

This screencast shows how to set it up and demonstrates fetching, posting, and image upload.

29 Apr 2006: Objective-C Part 2 — 11 MiB

Part 2 of demonstrating features specific to Objective-C/C++.

This time: documentation lookups, reformatting method signatures, and auto-insertion of brackets, alloc/init, and missing include lines.

28 Apr 2006: Inserting HTML Tags — 8 MiB

Four ways to efficiently have HTML tags inserted into your document without having to type the angle brackets or type both a start and end tag.

Also shows a bit of multi-line editing, in particular dealing with list items of varying lengths.

22 Apr 2006: Working With Numbers & Columns — 26 MiB

Basic calculations from inside TextMate including how to add/subtract numbers in column formatted text, and how to do various other column related operations.

12 Apr 2006: Scope Based Customization — 61 MiB

Very advanced behavior adjusting customizations can be done in a matter of minutes by making good use of scope selectors and language grammars. This screencast shows a few of these.

15 Mar 2006: Rails Bundle Improvements — 11 MiB

Duane Johnson has made several cool improvements to the Rails bundle which are shown off in this screencast.

These improvements will be available out-of-the-box in TextMate 1.5.1 but you can also grab the updated bundle now.

For more info visit this link — this page also has a high-res version of this screencast.

15 Mar 2006: Objective-C Snippets — 6 MiB

Some of the Objective-C snippets responsible for my increased productivity :)

It was recorded and narrated by myself (Allan Odgaard) and lack of a script made me forget a few points, amongst other that the user should look in the Objective-C bundle (Bundle Editor) and the chapters on snippets and scope selectors (manual) for more information.

05 Mar 2006: Context Sensitive Snippet Expansion — 12 MiB

Oliver Taylor shows how snippet expansion can be made context sensitive plus a few other features of TextMate.

This is one of several screencasts which introduce the user to writing screenplays in TextMate.

For more info visit this link

05 Mar 2006: Screenwriting Bundle — 34 MiB

This video goes through the behavioral features of the screenwriting bundle by Oliver Taylor.

It should be interesting even for non-screenwriters, as it is an impressive demonstration of how much automation one can achieve without writing a single line of code (the author of the screenwriting bundle is not a programmer).

This is one of several screencasts which introduce the user to writing screenplays in TextMate.

For more info visit this link

29 Jan 2006: LaTeX Projects — 26 MiB

Learn how to use TextMate’s project window, how to set up a master LaTeX file, references, label completion, and the magic that is pdfsync.

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23 Jan 2006: LaTeX Intro — 36 MiB

This is the first of several screencasts focusing on the LaTeX bundle. Recorded and narrated by Charilaos Skiadas.

25 Nov 2005: Python Usage 101 — 14 MiB

Domenico Carbotta shows how to write a small Python program using some useful Python shortcuts like an intelligent class snippet for auto-initialization of object data, and how to run the program from within TextMate.