Pimp my TextMate: how to speed up search & load

tobi — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:41:38 +0000

As a true Ruby on Rails developer you probably work with TextMate, as it’s a plain, simple, but yet quite powerful editor. I love its open-file-by-pattern (?+T) or find-in-project (?+?+F) functions. But one thing which bothered me the most was the search time when working on big, large, massive projects. One easy tweak how to speed it up easily is to extend the file and folder exclude patterns. For example you don’t need the tmp, log or vendor folder, nor any binary files within your editor. So I just excluded them, here are my new patterns (all in one line):

Files: (excluded all images,pdf & flash)

!(/\.(?!htaccess)[^/]*|\.(png|jpg|pdf|swf)|\.(tmproj|o|pyc)|/Icon\r|/svn-commit(\.[2-9])?\.tmp)$

Folders: (exclude tmp tools vendor uploads lang locale po old_migrations script images upload custom_maps log)

!.*/(\.[^/]*|CVS|doc|tmp|tools|vendor|uploads|lang|locale|po|old_migrations|script|images
|upload|custom_maps|log|_darcs|_MTN|\{arch\}|blib|.*~\.nib|.*\.(framework|app|pbproj|pbxproj|xcode(proj)?|bundle))$

To change the settings go to

preferences -> advanced -> folder references

Yeah, now my search is quite fast again!

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admin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:34:01 +0000

ActiveScaffold is a great plugin to build edit form easily. Nicely AJAX and nested forms support (well with limits . One thing which bugged me all the time, was the extra click you had to do to show the searchbox. Well I solved it like this:

  def index
    active_scaffold_config.list.label += render_to_string( :action => :search, :layout => false )
    super
  end

I know, it’s kind of bad hack, as the label actually isn’t supposed to contain a form – but it works out quite well!

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Pimp my TextMate: how to speed up search & load

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