Since I'm working on an 11" Air I was wondering if there are any good code editors yet that take advantage of Lion's fullscreen mode (or whatever it's called).
Please share if you have found such code editors, thanks! I'm writing mostly JS, CSS & HTML. And a little PHP.
Cheers!
You might want to look at BBEdit, or its freeware younger brother TextWrangler.
You can give Maximizer a try and then use any code editor you like. http://chpwn.com/apps/maximizer.html
Just mentioning this for the sake of posterity.
Or you can wait for the next release of TextMate, sometime in early 2053. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Sublime Text is my favorite editor. It is available of all platforms (windows, mac, linux), has great plugins and comes with "full-screen" and "distraction-free" editing mode, which will be great for your current setup.
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Just to be clear, I'm aware I can customise the font used in the editor window of VSCode to just about any monospaced font I like. I am not asking about what font is used in the editor. I am asking if anyone knows what font is being used by VSCode for the rest of its interface?
I appreciate this is an unusual design question. But it's to do with my IDE and I need to confirm for a theme project I'm maintaining.
Cheers,
Thanks to more docs, some trial and error, and even Wikipedia I can confirm that the font used in VSCode's own interface is SF Pro when running on Mac OS. I'm assuming that it is SF Pro Text and not SF Pro Display, given the use case. I've reversed engineered the interface during theme development in order to help determine.
I am working on my Tcl/Tk GUI (written through Tcl::pTk in Perl). Am I correct that Tcl/Tk widgets (entry, text, etc.) can not take as input the Speach to Text (Dictation) input of macOS (HighSierra)? I can input in pretty any software I have installed on my computer, exept from my own GUI and another software written in Tcl/Tk. Is there anything I can do, or I just have to accept it as not possible to achive?
Cheers
Kelly
I tried the widget demos for both Tcl/Tk and Tcl::pTk (which is something I've been doing rather often to check if an issue is in Tcl/Tk or just Tcl::pTk). I'm using Tk 8.6.8 on macOS 10.13.6 (note that recent macOS comes with an older version of Tcl/Tk: 8.5.9 on macOS 10.13).
I'm able to press fn twice to dictate into Tcl/Tk text and entry demos just fine:
But for the Tcl::pTk demos, I can't get it to work for an entry widget, and it's difficult to get it to work for a text widget (sometimes the dictation balloon doesn't show up on the first try, or if I focus on another text widget, then the dictation balloon might appear for that other widget instead).
Sometimes the dictation balloon shows up for ROText widgets, which doesn't cause anything to get typed, but still isn't ideal.
I'm not sure what's preventing dictation from working in Tcl::pTk, but since this is a rather basic accessibility feature, it would be great if it worked. This would be good for a bug report/feature request for Tcl::pTk.
Update: I've since observed difficulty using dictation even in pure Tcl/Tk examples, so I've opened a ticket: https://core.tcl.tk/tk/tktview/fdbdcc8c3c
Please help me, because unless I'm losing my mind. My text in TextMate suddenly looks a lot lighter than it should.
Screenshot: http://cl.ly/5kVW
I fired up TextMate yesterday and I noticed that suddenly the text was a little hard to read. So I ran to TextMate preferences to see if I had accidentally un-bolded all text. But I can only find it on a per-theme-basis. Text looks light to me across all themes.
I even looked through the TextMate manual but I can't seem to find anything.
Am I losing my mind?
Found screenshot of what it should look like with this same theme: http://www.monokai.nl/blog/wp-content/asdev/monokaiTheme.gif
I've been seeing the same thing lately. I haven't been able to determine the cause or reliably reproduce the bug, but perhaps it is related to the most recent update (I'm using the "cutting-edge" build 1631). I believe I began seeing the issue after the update (mid-March).
Sometimes restarting TextMate has fixed it. Sometimes I cleared the font cache, too.
As Allan noted in the ticket I filed, this is due to a bug in OS 10.6 with third-party external LCD panels:
In that case the problem is likely with the automatic selection of font smoothing (based on display), see http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090828224632809 for more details and potential workaround.
The reason restarting TextMate sometimes worked for me (and you, apparently), is because we restarted it without the external monitor attached. Running the defaults command in that Mac OS X Hints article fixes it properly.
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2
Textmate disables Apple's particular flavor of font-smoothing with dark themes running on retina displays. If you want to opt-in to the Apple version, change Textmate's settings in the terminal with:
defaults write com.macromates.TextMate.preview fontSmoothing 1
What is a Good/Best Terminal setting? I had my terminal (Mac OSX) set on Homebrew but it's kind of boring! What setting do you guys use out there? Are there any i can import? Any that you would recommend?
Love to know what colors, fonts, font size you use out there that are easy on the eyes?
Thanks in advance ;-)
I use the Pro settings with minimal changes, and Visor because I really like having instant access to the terminal without alt-tabbing.
I really love the Solarized color scheme. I only changed the colors for marked text which were barely visible.
Also, I am not using the default Terminal.app, but iTerm 2 which has some nifty features.
I was also bored with default terminal settings for a long and after trying tried various combinations, I found the following settings are best suited for day to day programming usage:
Mac's Terminal > Preferences
Monaco, Regular, Font Size 14.
PFB - A sample terminal image for the look and feel.
I am making a Haskell editor with Cocoa, and it would be useful to support some in-application text output. Even better would be supporting some text input.
Xcode does all this in its console, which looks like it might be an NSTextView, but not sure if somebody might have done all this before.