Starlight TextMate Theme v1.1

Posted by Justin Reagor Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:53:00 GMT

UPDATED – I added my personal information as well as a few minor updates, repacked and posted to the download link below…

Download: The latest iteration of my TextMate theme Starlight is here!

“Starlight” is based off of one of the pre-installed TextMate themes called “Twilight”.

There are several “Twilight”-based themes out there. Mine is probably the furthest from the original. I pretty much…

  1. Moved all of the original color scheming to the CSS style sheet scopes (which I may or may not change at some point)
  2. Re-worked it to better fit Ruby development
  3. Added HTML/Erb coloring
  4. and just recently, Javascript coloring (sub-theme I call Invasion, coming seperately soon)

—HTML/ERB

—Ruby/Rails

—Javascript

Most of the original scope selectors are used for the syntax highlighting, though the Javascript ones are all new.

The font I am using is a “programmers font” called Inconsolata. It is mostly used for printing code, but I’ve found it to be great for on-screen use as well (at middle ranged sizes).

Handy textmate bundle installer

Posted by Colin A. Bartlett Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:41:00 GMT

I just came across this list of bundle installer shell scripts for TextMate.

Being new to TextMate, I had no idea how to install the HAML bundle I wanted to try out. Luckily, this page provides a handy link to a shell script for each bundle that does all the installing for you.

Simply curl the file down to your machine, make it executable, and execute it. Bang, bundle installed.

So far, TextMate has been pretty neat and a refreshingly lightweight to my former environment of RadRails. Admittedly though, I haven’t had much opportunity to a lot of development since switching to OS X / TextMate so I have a lot to learn about it.