Simon Willison’s Weblog

Fun with TextMate and PDB. TextMate bookmarks (against lines in a file) are stored as OS X extended attributes, which can be accessed from Python using the xattr module. Here’s a clever piece of code that uses bookmarks to set breakpoints in the command-line pdb debugger.

# 23rd March 2010, 9:48 am / debugging, osx, pdb, python, textmate, xattr

MySQL, Python and MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I gave up on compiling things when I upgraded to Snow Leopard—I’m back to running Ubuntu in a VMWare instance, mounted over Samba so I can still use TextMate.

# 25th September 2009, 10:14 pm / mysql, osx, python, samba, snowleopard, textmate, ubuntu, vmware

How I Use TextMate. “Ack in Project” is a brilliant replacement for TextMate’s disappointing single threaded “Find in Project” feature.

# 6th December 2008, 10:32 am / ack, alex-payne, textmate

“Open in TextMate” from Leopard Finder (via) Bookmarked for when our copy of Leopard arrives.

# 28th October 2007, 6:24 pm / finder, leopard, osx, textmate

Twitter from TextMate. A TextMate Bundle that lets you send your currently selected text to Twitter.

# 25th March 2007, 6:10 pm / stuart-colville, textmate, twitter

Using TextMate with Django. Including a nice looking theme inspired by the Django website.

# 15th January 2007, 2:16 am / django, textmate