[TxMt] Coloured diff display?

Kevin Horton khorton01 at rogers.com
Wed Jul 25 14:01:50 UTC 2007


On 25 Jul 2007, at 09:28, Ciarán Walsh wrote:

> On 25 Jul 2007, at 14:07, Kevin Horton wrote:
>
>> I am trying TextMate on two machines, both PPC.  One machine  
>> displays subversion diffs with colours (the default behaviour, I  
>> believe), but the other has plain old black text with white  
>> background.  I am not aware of having made any selections that  
>> should have caused the difference in behaviour between the two  
>> machines.  I looked in the Preferences -> Fonts and Colors on the  
>> machine with no colours in the diffs, and I see nothing that  
>> appears to be related to diffs.  I moved ~/Library/Preferences/ 
>> com.macromates.textmate.plist aside and started TextMate again,  
>> but the diffs are still monochrome.  Where else should I look?
>
> Have you set the language to Diff in the status bar?

Ahh.  That gives me coloured diffs.  Thanks.

But, there is still a puzzling difference in behaviour between the  
two machines.  On one machine, diffs are automatically detected as  
language Diff.  On the other machine, they come up as language Plain  
Text.  What could explain the difference?

Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada





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