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e-texteditor: getting my ctrl-z back

toby ho — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:26:31 -0400

As I mentioned in a previous post, I am now using the dvorak keyboard with hacked in qwerty shortcuts. But recently, my e-texteditor ctrl-z shortcut key doesn't work anymore and instead keeps inserting an error message in my buffer... how annoying is that? I don't see any circumcetance when it's okay to insert an error message directly into your working document, that is just wrong! But, that's not the point. I found out that the ctrl-z combination is somehow triggering the spellchecker command instead of undo...how could this be? I did a little detective work an AH-HA! It turns out that in the text-bundle, the ctrl-; combination triggers the spellcheck, and ; in dvorak is z in qwerty... removed that key combination and everything was fine...phew...

Change File Associations in E-TextEditor

toby ho — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:03:08 -0400

To add a file extension to have a bundle autoloaded for it. You would go to the file:
C:\Program Files\e\Bundles\blah.tmbundle\Syntaxes\blah.plist

And add an entry under:
<dict>
    <key>fileTypes</key>
    <array>
        <string>html</string>
        <string>htm</string>
        <string>shtml</string>
        <string>xhtml</string>
        <string>phtml</string>
        <string>php</string>
        <string>inc</string>
        <string>tmpl</string>
        <string>tpl</string>
        <string>ctp</string>

Restart e and you are done.

Regex in e-texteditor

toby ho — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:36:08 -0500

Today I was faced with the task of converting my existing stylesheet to sass. But my stylesheet is so big! I really didn't want to do this by hand. Now, I had heard somewhere, and half suspected you could use search and replace with regex in e-texteditor(the textmate equivalent on windows). Wow! was I blown away and cursed myself for not knowing to use this earlier. So what I ended up doing was a version of this:

replace ([^ ]+)\: with :$1 to change font-size: to :font-size
replace [^ ]*{[^ ]*\n with \n to remove all open braces
replace }[^ ]*\n with \n to remove all closing braces

This feature really made my day.

Now sass and haml, I think they are still a bit buggy: they don't handle bad input very well. But I hope that it improves.