Hi everybody. With the help of Ian Becks TEA and Spice I have put together a sugar that adds some of TextMates text bundle functionality to Espresso (Join Lines, Duplicate Selection, Delete Line, Move Lines up/down). I have also added snippets to get autopairing of brackets and quotes. Unfortunately it is not possible to get the full functionality of autopairing like in TextMate but I am sure, this will be added to Espresso in a future update anyway.

I thought it might come in handy for some of you, so I have put it up on github:

http://github.com/minimalweb/text.sugar-for-Espresso

For the text actions to work, you also need to install Ians Spice sugar:

http://onecrayon.com/spice/

The text.sugar will add a new “Text”-submenu in the actions menu, where you can also lookup the shortcuts.

Thanks for your work Maurice.
I’ll start playing with it today.

This is great and was much needed for me.  Thank you!

I have just checked in some changes on github that provide better autopairing of quotes and brackets. Enjoy!

Nice, love this.

I like this but I noticed that it hurt the responsiveness of Espresso to keyboard actions (typing, moving insertion point around, etc) quite a bit. Removing the sugar fixed the problem. I don’t know why this would be.

Hi all, can you tell me how to install this please?

EDIT:

Don’t worries, I’ve found the sugar file in here,

http://fileability.net/coffee/sugar/Text

=)

There you go. If you have any further questions, suggestions or comments, please let me know.

donut - 21 September 2010 01:35 PM

I like this but I noticed that it hurt the responsiveness of Espresso to keyboard actions (typing, moving insertion point around, etc) quite a bit. Removing the sugar fixed the problem. I don’t know why this would be.

I know what you’re talking about. I am having the same issues from time to time. But I experience this a little bit different: If you start Espresso, everything works fine, but leaving it open for a while or after working for some hours it tends to become sluggish. Restarting resolves this usually. I think it’s a general problem and is not related specifically to the text.sugar, although i think it gets worse the more sugars you have installed. Anyway, thanks for the feedback!

Are some of your functions not already bundled with espresso (move lines up down) ?

Not that I know of. Especially those two were the main reason I built the sugar.

Well click “Actions” menu and you will find “Move Line Down” and “Move Line Up” (without third party sugars installed)...

Not for me. Did you restart Espresso after removing the sugars?

You’re right, it was Spice Sugar by Ian Beck. I did not see it added these functions.

My apologies

I just cannot get this to work! I have installed the latest version spice.sugar and the latest version of text.sugar, but nothing seems to work. Are there any other conflickting sugars?

Simon Banyard - 26 March 2011 05:23 AM

I just cannot get this to work! I have installed the latest version spice.sugar and the latest version of text.sugar, but nothing seems to work. Are there any other conflickting sugars?

Not that I know of. How did you install the sugars? When you open the “Actions” menu from the menu bar, is there a menu item called “Text”?