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TextMate projects: faking metadata
Merlin Mann | Oct 18 2004
Wrote this long-winded post to the TextMate list, so I thought I’d repurpose it here. Just quick tips on adding metadata to your text files and—because I’m a dull and repetitive scold—using controlled vocabularies to keep your stuff searchable.
And, per that last bit, I do encourage fellow TextMate nerds to share their productivity tips in comments here. 12 Comments
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![]() I've just noticed that Daniel...Submitted by bsag (not verified) on October 19, 2004 - 11:28am.
I've just noticed that Daniel Von Fange has written a nice piece about various TODO related productivity scripts using TextMate. The second one which deletes a completed item and archives it in another file with a date stamp is particularly groovy. And I'm by no means a Unix Wizard, but your description of grep sounded pretty spot on to me. Regular expressions (or regexes, in that terse way that Unix geeks have of referring to things) turn up in lots of scripting applications, and increasingly in many text-related applications. There are subtle differences between all these implementations, but if you get to grips with the basics it will serve you well in lots of different situations. I'm still learning too, but finding it fantastically rewarding to construct a simple regex to make changes that would otherwise take many minutes of tedious manual replacement. » POSTED IN:
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