The TextMate Beachball Revisited

chrisp — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:33:00 -0800

I posted one way to get rid of the TextMate beachball earlier. It just keeps coming back though. My current project is heavy on themes, meaning I have a lot of cache and images in a theme directory that also contains views and stylesheets that I need to edit. This really began to slow things down for me, and there’s no way to remove subfolders from the project. I finally figured out a way to put the beachball to rest for good though (hopefully).

First follow my previous advice and create a brand new TextMate project and add all folders that contain files that you will edit (and no others). Don’t add the log or tmp directories. Be thorough though - don’t leave out folders that MIGHT contain editable files in the future either.

TextMate will automatically scan all of these folders for filesystem changes, but there is a way to tell it NOT to scan certain subfolders. To do this you select the top-level folder that contains subfolders that don’t need editing (usually image and large static content areas). Right click and select the “Show information” option.

The “Folder pattern” textbox contains a regular expression that filters out unwanted folders. All you need to do is add the name of the folder(s) you want left out. Just add it to the existing list of names that are | separated. Make sure you have a single | on both ends of the folder’s name. You don’t have to put the entire path, just the name.

For example, I don’t want to check image subfolders, so I change this: !./(.[^/]|CVS|_dar to this: !./(.[^/]|images|CVS|_dar

Now my massive images folder is hidden. After doing this for all applicable folders, TextMate is faster than ever! Plus I still get the benefits of the live filesystem check that other methods don’t have.

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