Change CaseĮvery good text editor provides the functionality to change case and TextWrangler is no different. Subsequently, there is also the option to delete a tab's worth of spaces when Delete is pressed. To change tab settings navigate to Text > Entab and choose your preferred tab width, and the tab will be replaced with spaces rather than a tab character. TextWrangler has the option to replace the tab character with a pre-set number of spaces. Tabs are the nemesis for most programming languages, and that includes documentation standards for Drupal. I don't harness all the power it has to offer as a copywriter or while writing Drupal documentation, but here is a short list of text transformation commands I frequently use. It can wield more power than a bucking bronco. TextWrangler is pretty powerful for a plain text editor. To search and replace through multiple file navigate to Search > Multi-File Search (Command + Shift + F). To do a simple search and replace navigate to Search > Find (Command + F). This ability comes in handy when writing/editing Drupal modules whose names have changed, the name of the module has changed, and this change needs to be reflected in every instance in every one of the module files.
TextWrangler will comb through multiple files at once. Most text editors come equipped with search and replace, but the scale of TextWrangler's outshines all others. If you repeat the command, the clipboards will cycle backward through the history. Selecting Command-Shift-V will replace the current clipboard with the previous one. When writing READMEs, I have my soft wrap set to window width, but have my page guide set at 80 characters, so I can manually add line breaks where I need them.ĭigging in the Spurs - Multiple ClipboardsĬopy and pasting is a copywriter's trusty horse. The following options are available for text wrapping: Navigate to Edit > Text options and select Soft Wrap Text. TextWrangler definitely keeps me from squatting on my spurs, and the best part - it's free! Building the Corral - Text WrappingĪccording to Drupal Documentation for READMEs, text should manually word-wrap at 80 characters. I just need a tool that works on my Mac, writes with no fancy characters, and has the ability to do some basic formatting. Since I don't venture too far off the ranch into programming, I don't really have the need for a heavy IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It's not quite the Wild Wild West, but having a solid text editor in my holster keeps me saddled up and ready to ride.
For casual, unsophisticated applications by someone who grew up with green screen character based computers, it's probably OK.As Hook 42's Community Evangelist, I frequently venture into the prairie of Drupal documentation. For this reason, I would not recommend Emacs to anyone who is under 50 year old, or who needs power user capabilities. The things I just mentioned, are all present in some limited and inept form, but falls far short of current standard of good user interface design. To this day, it lacks or struggles with very basic things, like interactive dialogs, toolbars, tabbed interface, file system navigation, etc., etc. So Emacs does 5% or what an editor should do quite will, and is surprisingly under-powered and old fashioned at the other 95%. Unfortunately, it didn't keep up with the times and fails to take advantage of the entire world of GUI design that's revolutionized computer science since then. In fairness to Emacs, its original design was conceived in that context and is rather good at some things, like flexible ability to bind commands to keyboard shortcuts. User interface is terrible I was using Emacs in the early 1980's, before there were GUIs.
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