Steven S. Ross

After looking over the shoulder of one of my peers after he downloaded the latest Coldfusion 8 support for Homesite (yes, I said Homesite), I saw him use the good old F1 on a tag/method to the help docs. Homesite! The product that refuses to die. Adobe is still supporting it so there must be a bunch of CF developers out there still refusing to give it up. Well I’m not switching back to windows for Homesite (I really didn’t use it then either).

After he installed the code support for CF 8 he simply placed his cursor over a tag and hit F1 and bang the help docs come up. It started to bug me that this wasn’t in Textmate and I thought it would be useful. After all its in Homesite! So I worked on this command for Textmate which does the same thing except it uses the CF 8 Livedocs as the source. It supports all the current tags and functions. So head on over to the CF Textmate Google group and grab a copy. Hopefully it will be in the next release of CFTextmate.

Below is the link and the instructions are included in the jump (4th message down). While your at it why don’t you jump in and contribute to the CFTextmate bundle?

Coldfusion 8 Help Docs for Textmate

Also, I hear everyone is looking for a new CF IDE from Adobe. I’m perfectly happy with Textmate, I’d rather them concentrate on adding features to CF than building an IDE. Just seems like a waste.

Enjoy the addition to Textmate!