[TxMt] Re: (no subject)

Fabian Zeindl fabian.zeindl at gmail.com
Wed May 25 07:21:58 UTC 2016


Clarification: a base64 string argument that encodes a bitmap. 

> On 25 May 2016, at 09:20, Fabian Zeindl <fabian.zeindl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I advocate for a base64 encoded bitmap. 
> 
> Textmate should be easily able to display that and it would provide maximum flexibility for plugins as it's creation can be abstractes. 
> 
> It only would lead to less issues with path, tmp files etc. 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my iPhone
>>> On 2016-05-25 03:12, Carpii UK wrote:
>>> Thanks Allan,
>>> 
>>> Looks interesting, I will have a play around with this when I can
>>> I was hoping I might be able to call out to ImageMagick to generate a
>>> suitable ICNS icon, but from what I can see it doesn't support ICNS
>>> forma, which is a shame.
>> 
>> I don't think ICNS is a requirement. The built-in icons, error and warning, use PDF, IIRC.
>> 
>>> - Do 'marks' persist in any way, in projects or maybe tm settings?
>>> Ie, if I was to pass a /tmp/some_temp_file.icns, would that cause an
>>> issue later if the /tmp file was later deleted and Tm relaunched?
>>> 
>>> - I wonder how feasible it would be for TM to allow a new switch in the
>>> mark API, something like...
>>> "$TM_MATE" --set-mark-bg-color "#FF0000" --line 3
>>> 
>>> This would let us set the background color of the gutter, irrespective
>>> of the theme
>>> And also allow it to be used independantly of the current monochrome
>>> marks feature.
>>> 
>>> Just a thought anyway, not sure how easy it would be
>> 
>> Probably not that hard.
>> 
>> If mark icons are used for this I can see that this could cause conflicts with errors or warnings for something like a CSS preprocessor (Sass, LESS) or perhaps a CSS linter. I assume the mark icons for the color should be persistent, but, as far as I know, it's only possible to have one icon per line. If one runs a build command for Sass or LESS which use marks to report errors they would override the colors.
>> 
>> I think setting the background color as the Atom Pigments pulgin does would be pretty cool. Just make sure it's possible to turn off somehow. The Atom Pigments plugins has a couple of different ways to display the colors [1].
>> 
>> An additional alternative would be to have a tooltip showing the color on mouse hover. Or is it important that the color is always visible?
>> 
>> [1] https://github.com/abe33/atom-pigments#marker-type
>> 
>> -- 
>> /Jacob Carlborg
>> 
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