script-commands VS TextMate

Sure! Again, I use Raycast, along with it's Raycast AI[2] feature and it's snippets feature. And then for a bunch of other stuff, I have Raycast script commands[4] (mostly specially-formatted shell + Python scripts) that do API gluing to internal apps, such as our help desk and MDM systems, as well as Linux servers via SSH.

For help desk tickets, I have a script that pulls new tickets, reads in the information for each ticket, determines a likely response/resolution/followup questions ("I see you did not include an (asset tag|screenshot) with your ticket. Could you please add that?", "It looks like this knowledge base article might help. ").

I also use the Raycast AI commands "Improve Writing" and "Summarize" several times a day on emails, documentation, tickets, etc. Essentially, I select text in any window, hit a keyboard shortcut to launch that action and it quickly performs the action on the selected text. Super quick.

My goal is to automate anything I do >= once per day.

My tier 1 is Raycast here, but I had much of this on Alfred (what I used prior), much of this with formerly Albert and now ulauncher on my Linux box, and with the launcher that comes with Power Toys on Windows.

1. https://www.raycast.com/

2. https://manual.raycast.com/ai

3. https://manual.raycast.com/snippets

4. https://github.com/raycast/script-commands and https://manual.raycast.com/script-commands

A script can take up to 3 arguments. (see https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/documentation/ARGUMENTS.md)

I only know the official one at https://github.com/raycast/script-commands

It is possible, although not that smooth. You have to add this script to your command scripts in Raycast. Then you can assign > as a shortcut and you'll be able to do what you want. The only difference is that you need to type >, then space, then command.

there's this script: https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/commands/developer-utils/create-image-from-code.sh

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There's just one thing I can not do: write an email to a contact. In Alfred I could write e.g. "email tom" and it will auto suggest people from my contacts and it would open a new email to the selected contact. Is there something similar in Raycast? All I could find is an email script command (https://github.com/raycast/script-commands/blob/master/commands/system/new-email.sh) that opens a new email window, but it's not possible to select a contact, you have to enter the email address.

To add it to Raycast follow instructions detailed here: raycast/script-commands:.

Not sure if I'm missing something. The title says the app is open source, but checking GitHub, I see extensions and script-commands, and I don't think the "main" repo is there

I mostly work on MacOS these days and previously my general purpose text editor wax Textmate: https://github.com/textmate/textmate

Last official release was 2021, so I looked for something more regularely updated, and found CudaText. Definitely very Sublime-ish, and I like it so far.

Textmate 2.0 got open-sourced https://github.com/textmate/textmate but it looks pretty much abandoned/finished.

If you want something like TextMate maybe use TextMate? https://macromates.com

Use a native editor. VS Code is IMHO awful. Someone mentioned Sublime which is fast and has some nice features, but its non-native UI is IMHO ugly and clumsy. You might like it for similarity to VS Code, I guess. If you want something much more "Mac", though: https://macromates.com

I know no one talks about it anymore but TextMate 2 is still actively being developed and I find it excellent.

https://macromates.com/

TextMate is a well-known code editor for developers who code on a Mac system.

See, VSCode itself utilizes grammar files called “tmLanguage” files to tokenize your code. This tokenizer is borrowed from TextMate.