A plugin can't hurt. Though personally, I have no use for WYSIWYG functionality what-so-ever. The reason I use TextMate is because I don't require an app to hold my hands. Anything that TextMate can't do I can do in apps that are made specifically for the required functionality.
Peace Mike
On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Todd Ditchendorf wrote:
perhaps this is an opportunity for a plugin? Does anyone have a sense of whether a site management palette would be a highly desired addition to TextMate? Would an attempt to make textmate compete with apps like Dreamweaver make sense? We all know textmate's the better text editor... if you could install a plugin to add decent site management features...
I wonder if this is a bit of a slippery slope... WYSIWYG HTML editing would almost certainly be desired by the web devs who would be looking for site management features. This could be done with a TM plugin... something akin to SandVox, perhaps using WebKit's contentEditable features. But experience from TeXMLMate tells me it would be a bit risky as you'd need to do quite a bit of peeking under the OakTextView (TextMate's custom TextView)'s skirt to sync the WYSIWYG editing changes back to the textmate main editor window. The plugin would likely be quite brittle in the face of TM updates.
This is a reason I hope Allan will find time to add a more complete TM Plugin api... with more hooks that will be stable in future releases... I'm sure Allan realizes this is needed... considering there's been so few plugins to this point, he prolly figures he has more important priorities.
If you would be interested in these features speak up... it would be a big job, but it might be a fun plugin project to tackle.
Todd Ditchendorf
Scandalous Software - Mac XML Developer Tools http://scan.dalo.us
On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. I'm not concerned with it's visual preview of HTML files. skEdit is also a text editor (also has a preview function for HTML files, for what it's worth), but includes a very nice and very simple site manager window. That's what I was getting at.
Thanks, Greg
On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Kai Janson (kaijanson@) wrote:
Hi Greg,
TextMate is a text editor as the name implies but ... it has a rudimentary preview function for HTML files ... not too shabby...
--Kai
On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
Does TextMate have a Site Manager window, like Dreamweaver or skEdit for one-point access to everything?
Cheers, Greg
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