I love the idea!!! Allowing those features to be scriptable is what will improve TextMate beyond any other text editor. However, I am wondering if the URL scheme is the best way to implement those features.
I think in addition to the extended URL scheme idea, we should pursue a full-fledge TextMate Scripting API that incorporates all these features. Look at what the Sublime Text 2 Scripting API makes possible: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/api_reference.html. No one is more steadfastly in support of TextMate than I am, but I'm not blind myself to the power such a thorough API gives to scripters. Implementing a powerful VIM-like command mode is ~200-300 lines of Python. If I had any inkling of the best practices for peacefully and sustainably bolting-on a Ruby interface to these parts of the C++ code, I would do it myself. I could implement the code would someone else design the skeleton of the structure. In any case, whether through URL scheme or otherwise, I see an infinite possibility for TextMate to be expanded into the future. :) "For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything." - Herman Melville, Moby Dick -- Brandon Fryslie On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote: > ... and furthermore one could also think about to get something back from > calling such a txmt:// url scheme. > > Let's say one wants to know the current set grammar, then one could write a > command like: > > txmt://get?currentGrammar > > In order to access the result, well, there're several chances to achieve > that, but maybe a file hand-shake handling could be used, i.e. if TM2 > receives such a "get url" it will process the request and writes the result > into a temp file (either a fixed file path or a path which will be passed in > txmt:// ) and if TM2 is ready it writes a second temp file (whose name is > also fixed or will be constructed on basis on the passed path) with an empty > content if the task was successful or, if not, with an error message. The > command would simply wait after invoking the txmt:// get url for the second > temp file and would process both files. > > > Cheers, > --Hans > > > _______________________________________________ > textmate-dev mailing list > textmate-dev@lists.macromates.com (mailto:textmate-dev@lists.macromates.com) > http://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate-dev > >
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