On 14/09/2005, at 22.37, Alex Garrett wrote:
I'm trying to figure out a way to do auto-importing for Java in TextMate. I'm stuck at a couple of places and I would appreciate it if someone who knows more about TM than I do could chime in with some suggestions.
As for actually figuring out the import, I won't comment on that.
Let's just assume we have find_import.sh which takes one argument (class name) and returns the actual import statement.
Then to use it, you could do something like:
1) place caret on class name (no need to select it) 2) Automation / Start Macro Recording 3) Text / Filter Through Command a) set command to: find_import.sh "$TM_CURRENT_WORD" b) set input to: none (doesn't really matter) c) set output to: Place on clipboard 4) Move to begin of document (cmd arrow up) 5) Edit / Find / Find… a) set Find string to: ^(?=@import) or whatever you use in Java :) b) enable regular expression check box c) press next (should find first @import statement and close dialog) 6) Edit / Paste (i.e. the import line returned from the script) 7) Automation / Stop Macro Recording
Now you can save the macro and use later.
I made it a regexp search only to not have the find actually select the stuff found (by using look-ahead).
[...] is there any way to do arbitrary transformations on the contents of the buffer as if it were a java AST, instead of a stream of characters? I think that would probably be necessary to create commands to do source-level refactorings.
And would be pretty tied to Java ;) so no, that's not possible.