This Entangled Bank: printing from Textmatemay contain traces of knowledgetag:entangledbank.co.uk,2005:TypoTypo2010-01-22T14:27:28+00:00Edurn:uuid:0565a10c-f8bb-41af-9965-a0fcb2bf00062009-04-07T20:02:00+01:002010-01-22T14:27:28+00:00printing from Textmate<p>Textmate is a great lightweight text editor but printing functionality is very poor. Here’s a way suggested by <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/textmate/2006-April/009412.html">Jeremy Wilkins</a> to print out the current file or selection in small font size with line numbering. Put this command into a “Command” in the “Bundle Editor” and assign it to the keystroke ⌘P if you like:</p>
<div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_default ">a2ps --center-title=`basename "$TM_FILEPATH"` --font-size 8 -C --pretty-print --columns 1 -M A4 -R --tabsize=2 --line-numbers 5 -o - - | ps2pdf14 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 - /Users/fred/misc/tm_print/textmate_print.pdf && open -a /Applications/Preview.app /Users/fred/misc/tm_print/textmate_print.pdf</code></pre></div>
<p>You will need <code>a2ps</code> and <code>ps2pdf14</code> also. The latter you should have but the former is available through macports:</p>
<div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_default ">sudo port install a2ps</code></pre></div>
<h3><span class="caps">UPDATE</span></h3>
<p>Another good solution which I use is to print from TextMate via vim which gives you a syntax-highlighted and line-numbered result (or however you choose to configure it.) In addition to vim it requires ps2pdf but these are easy to install with macports etc.</p>
<p>The only limitation is that the file needs to be saved first.</p>
<p>See this page which shows how to set up the macro as a TextMate ‘command’:</p>
<p><a href="http://biztos.blogspot.com/2008/06/printing-with-textmate-vim-and-friends.html">http://biztos.blogspot.com/2008/06/printing-with-textmate-vim-and-friends.htm</a></p><p>Textmate is a great lightweight text editor but printing functionality is very poor. Here’s a way suggested by <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/textmate/2006-April/009412.html">Jeremy Wilkins</a> to print out the current file or selection in small font size with line numbering. Put this command into a “Command” in the “Bundle Editor” and assign it to the keystroke ⌘P if you like:</p>
<div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_default ">a2ps --center-title=`basename "$TM_FILEPATH"` --font-size 8 -C --pretty-print --columns 1 -M A4 -R --tabsize=2 --line-numbers 5 -o - - | ps2pdf14 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 - /Users/fred/misc/tm_print/textmate_print.pdf && open -a /Applications/Preview.app /Users/fred/misc/tm_print/textmate_print.pdf</code></pre></div>
<p>You will need <code>a2ps</code> and <code>ps2pdf14</code> also. The latter you should have but the former is available through macports:</p>
<div class="typocode"><pre><code class="typocode_default ">sudo port install a2ps</code></pre></div>
<h3><span class="caps">UPDATE</span></h3>
<p>Another good solution which I use is to print from TextMate via vim which gives you a syntax-highlighted and line-numbered result (or however you choose to configure it.) In addition to vim it requires ps2pdf but these are easy to install with macports etc.</p>
<p>The only limitation is that the file needs to be saved first.</p>
<p>See this page which shows how to set up the macro as a TextMate ‘command’:</p>
<p><a href="http://biztos.blogspot.com/2008/06/printing-with-textmate-vim-and-friends.html">http://biztos.blogspot.com/2008/06/printing-with-textmate-vim-and-friends.htm</a></p>