Forums | MacLife

I use Textwrangler.

You can find and replace on entire directories.  It's very slick and very free.  It even handles grep should you feel inclined to use regex.

And it's fast, unlike Textmate which would better off not having a Find / Replace feature than its current one.

Last edited by registered_user (2007-05-24 11:17 am)

you can open all your files with Dreamweaver too, then do your find and replace and then save all... wouldnt recommend it. last time i tried that i almost melted the computer to the desk. 467, 000 HTML pages had to have 2 lines of code changed. gotta love govt sites.

W2ttsy

I'd probably swear by textmate if I could find and replace with it.

But I can't.  Not even with plain string replacement not to mention regex.  And that's a feature that's just too critical to abandon.

Textmate sits in my dock at home though.  If they fix it, I may even get a license for work.

how primitive!

registered_user wrote:

And it's fast, unlike Textmate which would better off not having a Find / Replace feature than its current one.

Sadly, even on a small site it can bring the app to its knees.  I switch to BBEdit for site wide stuff.

TextWrangler, or BBEdit would be my pick.  Use something with Regular Expressions and you can even do this for more complex changes.  sed is another good choice, but not exactly friendly.

I haven't used textmate, but get the feeling I should give it a look...

spinner wrote:

...Use something with Regular Expressions and you can even do this for more complex changes.

Isn't that pretty much available in every text editor?  I can't think of one that doesn't have it.  (except textedit)

spinner wrote:

I haven't used textmate, but get the feeling I should give it a look...

It simply rocks.  But as pointed out, best use TW or something if you have to batch change stuff, or like Roo and make a lot of mistakes. 

Personally, if I am having to clean up a bunch of files or convert them I like DreamWeaver.  DW goes fast enough, but mainly it has some nice simple tools for building 'patterns'.  Like removing all comments, or specific tags, or swapping tags, or removing/changing attributes of tags, applying formatting, etc.

chipper wrote:

I am not an ubergeek coder type - i mainly just do front-end HTML/CSS. I probably leave 95% of textmate's abilities untouched. but for what I do need, it's great, albeit a little rough around the edges. the thing that i really like, and the reason i use it instead of textwrangler or other editors, is bundles. bundles are commands that you can put together and assign your own key command for them. that's just huge for me. for instance, i set up some simple commands that insert the proper HTML code for special typographic pieces - like real quote marks (and not tick marks).

Ditto.  The level of customization is really what makes it for me.  If I create a new CSS file and type cssbase+TAB, it generates it inserts the following:

/*
    scott hill
    wandermind.com

*/


/* @group StyleReset */
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,fieldset,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td { 
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}
table {
    border-collapse:collapse;
    border-spacing:0;
    border:0;
}
fieldset,img { 
    border:0;
}
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var {
    font-style:normal;
    font-weight:normal;
}
ol,ul {
    list-style:none;
}
caption,th {
    text-align:left;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
    font-size:100%;
    font-weight:normal;
}
q:before,q:after {
    content:'';
}
abbr,acronym { border:0;
}
br.clear{
    clear:both;
}
/* @end */


/* @group CommonElements */

body, table, input, select, option, li, td, th, table, tr, label{
    color: #333;
    font: 11px "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}

body{
    background:#fff url(images/background.png) repeat-x;
}
a{}
a:hover{}
p{}
h1{}
h2{}
h3{}
h4{}
h5{}
/* @end */

/* @group MainStructure */
#wrapper{}
#header{}
#content{}
#inner-content{}
#footer{}
/* @end */


/* @group Navigation */
#navigation{}
#navigation ul{}
#navigation ul li{}
#navigation ul li a{}
#navigation ul li a:hover{}
#navigation ul li a span{}
/* @end */

/* @group Forms */
form{}
fieldset{}
legend{}    
/* @end */


/* @group Pages */
/* @group Home */

/* @end */
/* @group About */

/* @end */
/* @group Contact */

/* @end */


/* @end */

or if I type bug+TAB it inserts:

echo "<pre>"; print_r(); echo "</pre>";

with the cursor in the parens.
And so on.  I have tons. Anything I type more than a couple of times in a project, I make a macro.  And the macros support scripting.  I have a few with regex in them to clean things up.

chipper wrote:

i also enjoy being able to modify the screen/text colors to my liking. superficial, but important to me.

Hardly superficial.  If you spend all day in an application, you want want to be able to tailor you're experience as much a possible.  Just like if you work at a desk all day, you want a comfortable chair.  It is important to me as well.

chipper wrote:

-Find in Project is still wonky - sometimes it adds code bits from other searches for no discernible reason

Don't have a problem with it, but would like the ability to have prefs for project to exclude folders/files.  In rails, I get all the test files and cache files.

chipper wrote:

-There is a bundle command to open the current document in a running browser. it doesn't work with Safari for some reason, it just sits there.

The one under HTML works for me.  It doesn't switch you to Safari though, but it opens the doc in it.  Also CMD+R in will refresh the front window in Safari.  Works for html, but also for external .js or .css files.  So you can be working on a .js/.css file and not have to swtich to safari and refresh, just CMD+R and you are good.

chipper wrote:

-If you "save as" the project drawer (think file mananger in DW) no longer shows the older, original file. you have to rescan the project before it shows up. nothing huge, but annoying.

Yea, it is busted, has been for a while. No work around that I know of.  I just don't think it is high on their priority of bugs, it's annoying, but as you said, the little quirks aren't that big of a deal.   Hell, I consider finding an app that is 95% perfect a huge score.  They can't all be QuickSliver, can they?

Hmmm...  downside of the ability to COMPLETELY customize with shortcuts and things it the ability to smurf up the app.

Somehow, I assigned the 6 key to some random function that I cannot locate.  If I press the 6 key, TM will create a new next .txt document in the root of my current project with a filename of the word next to my keystroke.!?!?!?!?!

Sucks... I have to use the 6 sometimes.