On 3. Nov 2004, at 13:02, David Casal wrote:
Ok so two last questions...do you expect that when you add recursion support, people will be able to use say (oh please) a bundle editor to do things like 'don't let me close parent tags against that namespace unless their child tags are closed' ?
If you by “don't let me close” means something like “make the background of a misplaced close tag red” then yes, that'll be easy.
E.g. <foo><bar></foo> would have </foo> stand out in some way, until you insert </bar> in front of it.
And, are the TD team
For the records, it's TM and I'm the only programmer ;)
expecting that things like XML support and other bundles are always going to be up to users to craft? Meaning, will you never yourselves develop bundles?
I don't think I'm the best person to do bundles for languages I don't know/use. And currently I also think my time “programming” is best spent on actual TextMate development, since I'm currently the only person with access to that source ;)
Long term, I may help out if there's an area which needs attention, but TM is less than a month old, and already there are quite a large number of user submissions, even w/o a GUI editor for the syntax files -- so I don't think it'll be a problem with neglected languages, and when TM gets an in-app editor for the syntax files, I think it'll be much less intimidating to roll your own syntax for whatever you're working on. E.g. doing quick ad hock syntax highlighting for your GTD lists or similar ;)