[txmt-dev] Re: .tm_tmp as project-specific semi-permanent directory?

[Gerd Knops]

On Sep 6, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Gerd Knops <gerti-textmate at bitart.com> wrote:
> 
>> […] That also might open the door to something that I have been mulling over for a while: storing a per-file index of pertinent information gleaned from the various scopes […]
> 
> So what sort of info do we wish to store? I see a few different things:
> 
> 1. project settings, shared with all users → scm.
> 2. session info for the project (might contain unsaved changes).
> 3. cache for ⌘T, ⇧⌘F, document scopes
> 4. named sockets for project persistent servers?
> 
> I am leaning toward this mapping:
> 
> 1. .textmate_config ⇔ .textmaterc ⇔ .tm_properties
> 2. .cache/textmate/session/
> 3. .cache/textmate/cache/
> 4. .cache/textmate/run/
> 
> So basically a `.cache` folder in the project, and everyone could use this and we can do with a single name (for a prettier file listing when showing hidden items).
> 
Sounds good to me. Current use case that brought this up was project-specific scratches. So they'd go into .cache/Scratch/.


> Only minor issue I have with that is that we are sort of labeling the session info as “cache” even though the user shouldn’t delete it.
> 
Good point. Ideally the user should not mess with .cache while the project is open. But as long as that is handled somewhat gracefully (eg not crashing) I think it would be OK.

Gerd