[TxMt] Some Feature Requests

Torsten Becker torsten.becker at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 11:40:57 UTC 2004


hi,

at first i must say that textmate definitely rocks, it is really THE
missing editor i was searching for. and its a not unimportant reason
why i bought my ibook.

but this doesn't mean its already perfect i still like to see some
features or at least small changes. :)

for example:
- parenthesis highlights (or smart typing highlights) like in komodo. 
i have been using activestate komodo quite a long time but because it
was a bit to big and slow and not extensible enough i don't use it
anymore, but one thing was really cool: the parenthesis highlighting. 
in textmate you have to roll over the parenthesis with the caret to
get it highlighted, in komodo you just have to be near it and it gets
highlighted (normally it gets red and bold), i like this more than
always have to move with the caret forward and backward, its
especially more comfortable in heavy nested statements or lisp :).  so
i would it like to see implemented this way in textmate.

- simple formating in tool tips, probably like in html so that one can
make bold, underlined and italic text, this would be very nice because
bigger tool tips would be better readable.

- better placement of tool tips.  if you have a really big tool tip
(or just a normal big one) and your caret is a bit to near to the
right of the screen, the tool tip is shown out of the desktop, i found
this a bit useless sometimes and i want to suggest to place tool tips
a bit more user friendly.

thats it, i also would like to see some other features like the
right-click-menu in the dock and a user adjustable color-system, but
this already have been mentioned and i don't want to repeat them again
and again.

thanks for this great tool.

-- 
Torsten Becker



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