As we've been discussing the TM icon lately, and I'm one of those who
isn't keen on the current icon, I thought I'd do some research.
When placing a new brand into an existing market, one of the things to
identify is the values presented within the brands of your competition.
For icons, the overriding value to consider is that of colour.
I'm no designer, but I've grabbed together a bunch of OS X editor icons
and placed them on a colour wheel:
http://allinthehead.com/assets/img/osxeditorcolours.png
As you can see, the main focus is on blues and greens. These colours are
already over-used and should be avoided. Strong yellow and red have also
already been claimed, although there's no strong orange in use.
The main gap on the wheel is obviously the pinks/purples and the cyan
end. Cyan is tricky to get right, as it tends to either drift into blue
or green, or contrasts badly against white.
Therefore, I think that TextMate should have a pink/purple icon.
drew.
hello,
I am running the latest textmate beta and when I hit apple+f no find
menu pops up. however apple+shift+f brings up a dialog box. has anyone
esle experienced this?
--dfc
Douglas F. Calvert
http://anize.org/dfc/ .::. GPG Key: 0xC9541FB2
A mystic in the sense that I am still mystified by things...
Allan Odgaard wrote:
> I'm doing one or two more 1.0.2 beta versions and then I'm starting
> 1.1 and putting all the minor stuff on hold.
>
> I may send a list of what 1.1 will be about or perhaps use the wiki
> for a more public to-do (not decided on this yet -- I don't mind an
> open process).
>
> This also means that if you have something that frustrates you _a lot_
> with the current versions and you think it's easy to fix, you may want
> to mention it -- but if it's already been mentioned a few times,
> chances are that it's postponed because it's not a minor thing, or
> it'll automatically be done in the 1.1 overhaul.
OK, this single thing irritates me A LOT !!
Being a beta user, I have yet again updated TM and after doing so, my
finely tuned Snippets, Commands, Macros, Templates, etc etc menus are
being filled with things that I don't use.
So what I would ask for and hope would be easy to implement is:
Give *PRIORITY* to my bundles, that are in
~Library/AppSupport/TM/Bundles rather than those that are in the
TM.app, or alternatively the ability to switch of the TM.app bundles.
This could ideally be controlled by a preference checkbox in the prefs
window, that gives turns on the TM.app bundles or not. Default = On.
Apologies for yet again boring you with the minor stuff. :)
Kind regards,
Mats
Re: 1.0.2b7
- The web preview looks great.
- the scrolling past the window edges works great.
- Open new untitled pref seems to work great.
- Thumbs up!
The new color hack (which reads in colors) is marvelous. It is saving
me lots of time and pain.
I updated my show invisibles hack <http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu/textmate>
to have subtler colors and play nicer with ASCII xA1-xFF. Don't know
what to do about Unicode, but I'm sure someone can extend my simple
idea.
- Eric
--
Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu
http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu
Hi there,
Is there a translationscript for Text to HTML like in BBEdit
(Translate) and ignore < and /> ? Example: ö -> ö
That would be great.
thanks,
Detlef Hoge
Hi mate,
Just saw your email on the archives... any chance of making that syntax
file available to me? I've been mucking about with it much as you did i
imagine, but don't quite get how to edit them and have them load. I
really want PHP & HTML syntaxing at the same time...
Thanks,
john
> Allan,
>
> Thank you for your help !!! Very much appreciated.
>
> >> As it is right now, I have a choice of highlighting for HTML or for
> >> PHP, BUT NOT both at the same time.
> >
> > No, the "HTML (PHP)" does do this. But the colors of HTML is toned
> > down significantly.
>
> Ahh, the perils of editing syntax files without understanding things
> fully. I made a colour change to the "HTML (PHP)" syntax file and
> stored it in the AppSupport directory, so it overrode your file, and in
> doing so it created plain black text on white background. : (
>
> I have now spent a good few hours tweaking my colours and have HTML
> with PHP; with CSS; with JS highlighting working just as I want it.
>
> Although time consuming, it has been a very good process to go through,
> and I have learnt a lot about the syntax structure. As a result, I am
> very impressed by the inherent power in the syntax format.
>
>
> My only concern now - as I have migrated to a dark background - is that
> the cursor is invisible over the edit window. Perhaps something that
> you are already aware of and working on. (Or perhaps is remedied by
> some to me unknown setting).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Mats
>
>
Regards,
John Cleary
==
Founder, OziMac
john(a)ozimac.com.au
http://www.ozimac.com.au
==
Hi,
I do like TM's syntax highlighting a lot, but I think it's annoying
having to tweak their color schemes to my liking all the time. I think
the parser bundles should tell TM the kind of a piece of text (comment,
reserved word, string, etc) instead of font style information, and TM
should give me a way to apply a custom stylesheet to all that info.
So I would like to have one file containing my custom stylesheet that
tells TM to display all comments (regardless of language) in green, all
strings in purple, except for perl, where I'd like my strings to be
blue. You get the idea.
How does that sound?
Cheers,
-Ralph.
BTW, that's the feature request I wanted to add to the wiki before I
broke it..
I would like to have a $TM_BUNDLE_PATH available in a command, that
points to the directory in which the current command is stored. For
example, $TM_BUNDLE_PATH would point to
/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/HTML.tmbundle
for the Refresh Safari command.
This would make it easier to make more complex commands (just let your
command execute $TM_BUNDLE_PATH/my_fancy_script.sh) or pack in some
extra resources.
I love the color picker (awk version)! That is a great little hack
which should probably come standard. One thought: it would be even
cooler if one could select text that was a color like #00ff00 and
have the color picker open with that color selected. For those of us
who need translating *to* colors as well.
I love this program... the power of Cocoa and Unix together at last... - Eric
PS. I like the key/gear icon.
PPS. Yes, icons are something everyone can have an opinion on (I was
alluding to the bike shed piece when I wrote that). On the other
hand, a lot of people on this list really like the program and want
to contribute in their own way. Some of us can hack Perl syntax
files, some of us can be wiki gardeners, others of us can show our
affect by contributing visual ideas. There's More Than One Way To
Contribute To It. As long as we know to back off at the end and let
Allan make the decision...
--
Eric Hsu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
San Francisco State University
erichsu(a)math.sfsu.edu
http://math.sfsu.edu/hsu
