“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan

I use TextMate’s ‘Find in Project’ search quite a bit. Recently, though, I found any ‘Find in Project’ search slowing to a crawl. Searching through a project took more than a minute and would meanwhile lock up TextMate completely. Horrible.

After tinkering around a bit, I figured out that TextMate was searching through binary files in the project as though they were text. When I removed some videos from the project, the search was back up to full speed. Must have been triggered after I tried dragging a video into TextMate. But how to restore peace?

I stumbled upon the fix several hours later after right-clicking on one of the video files in the project drawer. There at the bottom is a menu item you can select to make TextMate ‘Treat Files with “FLV” Extension as Binary‘!

Blam.