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TextMate Bundles - Ack & YUI! Compressor

6:38p.m., Tue 6 Jan 2009

One of the things that bugged me about TextMate was it's sluggish "Find in Project". It's so sluggish that I stopped using it altogether. There's a TextMate bundle that does the job much quicker though: It's called Ack!

I've also been using this YUI Compressor Bundle for compressing CSS and JS files. It takes selected files and creates a compressed version with a .min suffix to the file name. In Django projects I reference the working file when the global DEBUG variable is set to true and add the ".min" otherwise. It works nicely.

There's a great JS Tools bundle by Andrew Dupont bundle that gives you JSLint checking (it does compression too using JSMin and Dojo compressor). You can manually run a check and get a full diagnosis, but it also shows a tooltip with the number of errors and warnings when you save a JS file which is really handy.

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