• Posted by Peter Haza
  • On November 29, 2008

  • Filed under TextMate

  • 7 Comments

New TextMate build, now shipping with Dialog 2

Now that TextMate has shipped a new build (1496), it has also included some new goodies behind the scenes. Amongst the good stuff is Dialog 2, which also includes a completion framework I’ve mentioned in an earlier TextMate posts.

Update: TextMate 2 should be in private alpha in a month’s time, and public beta in maybe six months. Read more here.

To all who have previously been testing Dialog 2, it’s now important that you delete your Dialog plugins to make sure you utilise the latest version that shipped with TM, or you’ll end up with completions only working partially or not at all. You’ll find the plugins in

~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/PlugIns.

I also recommend you delete your Support folder if you’ve checked out this too, as TM already shipped with a very recent version of this. The support folder is located at 

/Library/Appplication Support/TextMate/Support

if you have checked it out.

Dialog 2 also includes pretty tool-tips as I’ve mentioned before. Not all bundles are utilising them yet, but as always Ciaran is giving the PHP bundle great love, so you can use that to see how it looks. Just leave the caret near a built-in function and press ⌥F1 and enjoy the new coloured tool tips.

I also recommend reading the release notes to see what other goodies are out there. Amongst other things is some great work by Alex Ross and Luke Daley which will now pop up a dialog if the script/command requests input. (This was often the cause of confusion when using the svn bundle without using ssh keys)

If you missed the release notes when you updated TextMate, you’ll find them in the Help menu → Release Notes.

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7 comments

  1. Posted by MrGando 30th November, 2008 at 07:51 pm |

    Not available in Cocoa bundle yet right ?

  2. Posted by Max 11th December, 2008 at 12:42 pm |

    Hmmm It doesn’t seem to work here (for PHP). Should it work out-of-the-box, or are there other requirements that must be met?

  3. Posted by Peter Haza 15th December, 2008 at 08:18 am |

    If I remember correctly, you have to check out latest PHP bundle from svn and make sure you delete all previous installations of Dialog.

  4. Posted by dragz 2nd January, 2009 at 05:12 am |

    where can i get this new release ? last check on macromates still r1436.

  5. Posted by dragz 2nd January, 2009 at 05:20 am |

    nevermind.. downloading r1496 as i type this.

    thanks for the info though

  6. Posted by lionstarr 24th January, 2009 at 06:18 pm |

    Damn, this does not work for me. I got build 1496 and I checked out the PHP Bundle. But there are neither prettier tooltips (using option+f1) nor the completion. Please tell me, what I need to do to make this work for me!

  7. Posted by Peter Haza 3rd February, 2009 at 08:11 pm |

    I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you have to do. Make sure you delete your Support folder, and check out the latest PHP bundle

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