First TextMate Book is shipping
James Edward Gray’s II Book TextMate Power-editing for the MAC from the Pragmatic Bookshelf is shipping as print version now. I have been following the book-progress closely, while the Book was in beta-stage. For any Users of TextMate it is also an indespensible Guide, to learn your favorite Text-editor just a little better. You might believe, since James is a Rails Developer, that this Book is mostly geared towards Ruby and Rails Users. However, that isn’t the Case. The Book covers among Project-handling and basic Usage, practical Examples, Tutorials and Download snippets, so You can get an Idea, how you can automate and organize your work right from within your Bundle Editor. If you are into Ruby, or love to do things from the command-line, it covers all that too.
Probably among the most interesting Chapters he covers,are how to create Language Grammars in Section three of the Book. James kept on listening to the requests on the mailing list, and this was among the top priority requests.
I wished, I would have had this Chapter available, while the Book was in it’s first revision while I worked on my TXP Bundle. Not only will you have the chance to learn how to create your own TextMate Language Grammar, but the Chapter also includes the Creation of a full JSON Language Grammar, and you can have a glimpse above his Shoulder while he creates the whole Language step by step from scratch.
Snippets, Macros and commands are all explained, documented and performed with step by step practical examples, that also will help you to improve your typing skills and learn the plethora of keyboard shortcuts, that ship together with Text-Mate’s default bundles. I still can’t remember more than 50% percent of all of them at the same time, since there are just to many of them.
You can download code-snippets from James’s Resources Site, while you follow along his Tutorials end Examples.
Build your own automations, with a little Glimpse at the last Chapters of Section II of the book.
This Book is a killer, both for Experts and Novices, no kidding. Ruby or not. James is a great Teacher as well, so if you are interested, you might want to watch his screen-casts as well.
Posted ·2007-03-16 · by · Marios ·
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