On 30 Apr 2009, at 13:29, Kevin Reid wrote:
On Apr 30, 2009, at 6:50, Darren Brierton wrote:
- Good parenthesis matching and highlighting
I'm actually genuinely surprised at this. TexMate is very weak in this area. I should be able to put the cursor between say "})" and have the two closing parentheses highlighted in different colours and have their corresponding opening parenthese highlighted in matching colours.
TM's grammar facility allows very good matching, and it also has a default brace-matching facility -- what it lacks is UI which automatically *presents* this information. What it does have is Edit > Select > Enclosing Brackets | Current Scope.
Yes, but I don't want to select what is in between the parentheses, I just want a better visual cue of where I am when I am editing. It's really just a special case of syntax highlighting that is only active when the cursor is next a parenthesis character. Most other editors I've used have it some extent. Given that TextMate's syntax highlighting is so good (probably the best I've ever seen), I am surprised it doesn't have this, especially if as you say the underlying language grammars could easily make it available.
- The ability to parse DTDs and Schemas for automagic knowledge of
markup languages
Pondering this, it seems to me that the most powerful way to do this would be to add a hook to allow bundles to compute the definition (as plist text) of an additional language grammar to be used with the current file (which could then be referenced by the static grammar provided by the bundle).
As a new TextMate user I'm afraid I don't really know what that means, but I'm excited by the suggestion that this is something that is feasible even in TextMate 1.
Thanks for your reply.
Best, Darren