<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="">Does this thing necessarily have to be a plugin to function?</DIV><DIV style="">It looks like you could create an iconless application instead and launch it with a tmCommand.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There's no technical barrier to just grabbing the window's current (possibly unsaved) text from a plugin. In fact, it would probably be easier. Then again, I have no idea what a tmCommand is...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm looking into this, but at the moment, I'm thinking a plugin is more appropriate than a separate, pseudo-app. But I welcome input from anyone who knows more.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Todd</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 27, 2006, at 10:30 AM, thomas Aylott wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV>On Dec 27, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Todd Ditchendorf wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">- It only seems to recognize changes in the document after I have saved it</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">yeah.. this could be improved. thanks for the input</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Does this thing necessarily have to be a plugin to function?</DIV><DIV>It looks like you could create an iconless application instead and launch it with a tmCommand.</DIV><DIV>That would give you the ability to parse the unsaved version by simply piping the contents of the window to a temporary file using the tmCommand.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 15px; "><A href="http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?LSUIElement">http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?LSUIElement</A></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px; line-height: normal;">Specifies that an application is background-only </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px; line-height: normal;"><I>but</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px; line-height: normal;"> has a UI as well (usually a floating utility window). No menu bar or Dock icon, with the exception that it may have an </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?NSStatusItem"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#323C4D">NSStatusItem</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Trebuchet MS" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12.6px;">.</SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>thomas Aylott — <I>design</I><B>42</B> — <B>subtleGradient </B>— CrazyEgg</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">______________________________________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For new threads USE THIS: <A href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>