[TxMt] Re: Configuring syntax highlighting programmatically

[Daniel Sadilek]

I found a solution: writing .tmLanguage and .tmTheme files.
Unfortunately, TextMate must be restarted for the changes to take
effect. You can download the code here:
http://sadilek.blogspot.com/2008/04/update-of-sequence-analysis-textmate.html

In a later post Ciarán Walsh points out:
"If you look at the Diff bundle, it includes Preference items with
some foreground/background colour definitions, I would imagine this
would be better suited to what you are doing (since reloading bundles
should work fine then)."

Best regards
Daniel Sadilek

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Daniel Sadilek <d.sadilek at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I recently built my first TextMate bundle
> (http://sadilek.blogspot.com/2008/04/dna-sequence-analysis-with-textmate.html)
> for some simple DNA sequence analysis.
>  It was really easy to accomplish this with TextMate.
>  However, I'm missing one feature: is there any way to programmatically
> configure syntax highlighting?
>  What I want to achieve is that a user can configure pairs of string and
> color. All occurences of the string should be highlighted in the given
> color.
>  I have already built a corresponding dialog (very similar to the preference
> dialog of the TODO bundle) in which I can enter strings and select a color
> for each. The "only" thing missing is using this information for
> highlighting the text.
>
>  Best regards
>  Daniel Sadilek
>
>  P.S. This sort of function would be interesting for the TODO bundle, as
> well: for highlighting the TODO markers in the text.
>