Being a Macintosh user, I am also long time Dreamweaver user. Though I have now discovered TextMate, and have been using it for mostly Actionscript development. More recently with an upgrade to Abobe CS4, Dreamweaver has become much more feature rich, and unstable. The local to remote functionality is slower than ever, FTP is extremely slow and always craps out, and version control is so buggy they might as well not have even included it. That all being said, I jumped into TextMate more deeply and started using it for all my other development such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, shell scripting, and system configuration. The biggest thing completely missing from TextMate is local to remote connectivity. Then, I found the little program Transmit.
TextMate and Transmit work pretty seamlessly together, and I won’t bother going into how to get a good workflow together using them, because there are plenty of other tutorials on the net if you just do a quick search. What this post is about is a TextMate theme I decided to release.
The fact is, I have used Dreamweaver for so long, I am used to the code coloring and I miss it when using TextMate. That is until I found out how to create a theme.
This is for all those people who love TextMate, but miss the Dreamweaver syntax coloring. This theme works better if you update your HTML language expression. It is available with this download. All I did was simply add unique captures for the “a”,”img”,”table”, and “form” elements. That is because people who have used or use Dreamweaver will know, that these elements are different colors than the rest. Updating your TextMate HTML language captures should do the trick. No worries, if you want it back to normal, everything will be okay if you simply remove the extra support files that were added by installing the files from this download. Be careful if you have made further changes yourself, because removing these files will delete your changes too.
Installation:
Simply go through each folder’s contents in the download, and drag and drop each file to the TextMate icon on your Dock or in Finder. Very simple, that’s why we love TextMate.
The support for TextMate is here: /Users/yourusername/Library/Support/TextMate/
This is the first release, and it is as close as I could get it for a first pass. If anyone makes any updates, I would appreciate it if you sent them to me so I may implement them as well.
Thanks and enjoy,
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