Creating New Documents

I've actually set up something a bit more handrolled and useful for generating new documents.

In particular, I factored out the "generate a new template file" code that is in a lot of Textmate packages into some ruby scripts that sub in some values into a copy of latex templates that have all the standard goodness I like to have in my initial document.

its pretty light weight, makes it easy to ensure that i can use tex on pretty much any machine or editor with the initial setup I like, and its essentially OS / Editor independent (aside from being cli based).

https://github.com/cartazio/doctemplates the useage would be eg: > memoart "what I want to name the file"

To reiterate: this approach lets me have certain values in the files that are automatically initialized when I am creating a new file, such as commented out lines indicating the file's name and date/year of creation.

My OS of choice has a nice implementation of this functionality

C-x f <filename> [enter]

;)

I don't mind the "duplication" of Finder in the Open/Save dialogs because you can use the same keyboard shortcuts to whizz around the filesystem (Cmd-↑ Cmd-↓ Cmd-Shift-G), which is preferable to clickity draggity to me.

Time to subscribe to that blog though. Every time I end up there it's a good post.

Dterm (http://www.decimus.net/dterm.php) allows you to use 'touch <filename>' wherever you are in the Finder!