March 19, 2010

Room to Work

I was just thinking about how nice it would be to have a Textmate command that could help you isolate the block of code you're working on.

Here's the  idea, when you're working in a big, messy file you could:

1. highlight a block of code
2. press a key combination
3. Textmate grabs that selected block
4. opens a new file and sets it to the current language
5. pastes in the block of code
6. make all of your edits
7. press the same key combo
8. Textmate cuts the edited code
9. closes the temp document
10. replaces the original block of code with the updated version

That sounds like it would be pretty handy. When I get some time I'll try to create such a thing. Plus, I need to rework my css property arranger. Some friends (and I) have found glitches.