[TxMt] Re: Gutter marks precedence

Allan Odgaard mailinglist at textmate.org
Tue Oct 21 06:57:00 UTC 2014


On 20 Oct 2014, at 23:58, Stefan Daschek wrote:

> Have you considered simply displaying the mark images on top of each 
> other in this cases?

Currently the images are single color (vectors), so rendering them on 
top of each other would probably not work without doing some sort of 
outline effect.

> I have this vague idea of using a thin, colored line for SCM status 
> (e.g. green for added, orange for changed) – if those images were 
> built to show the line at the very left (or right) edge of the gutter, 
> combining them with other mark images could work quite well.

Could also place the marks on the line numbers or maybe give them its 
own column, since we only need 3×3 points to render a plus sign. Main 
concern is to not making the marks API too complex or hardcoded.


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