Hacks

Boost Textmate performance by excluding heavy files from your project

Textmate has been dogging me lately, to the point that I couldn’t take it anymore. After talking with other developers and exhaustive google searches, I found out that Textmate doesn’t like large files. So, with a little hack that my boy Kyle showed me, I think I may have fixed the problem.

I opened up my Textmate preferences, clicked on Advanced, then clicked on Folder References and added my log directory to the list of folders to be excluded from the file browser in Textmate. The problem is that I have some large (5MB and up) log files in my log directory, which Textmate was choking on. I also added and vendor/rails to the list as well for good measure. After doing this, I restarted Textmate and it was like night and day with performance.

Tags: performance, textmate