Along those lines, I have a feature request which I would use frequently, which is that a single file could be multi-mode based on some very simple regular expression matching.
For example, I have lots of files that look like this:
LaTeX stuff LaTeX stuff LaTeX stuff
<<some string>>= C++ stuff C++ stuff C++ stuff @
LaTeX stuff LaTeX stuff LaTeX stuff
<<some other string>>= C++ stuff C++ stuff C++ stuff @
and so on. I'd like the sections to be syntax highlighted (hilit?) according to their respective styles, and when the cursor is between the <<...>>= and @, I'd like to edit in C++ mode with all the associated macros / tab expanders, and in LaTeX otherwise.
I'm mainly just a user of TextMate; I haven't really extended it in any meaningful way; is this something that an experienced end-user could do, or would it require a fundamental change to the core?
Allan? Thoughts about this? I imagine it would be implemented as a "meta-mode", which is just a mode that tells TM under what circumstances it should interpret blocks as other modes.
-- Greg Humphreys, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~humper/
On Nov 6, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Xavier Noria wrote:
Try this:
1. Open a file F1 with extension .pm, Perl mode is correctlyactive.
2. Open a second file F2 with extension .pm, Perl mode iscorrectly active.
3. Change F2's mode to C mode. 4. Switch back to F1's tab and you'll see it's now in C mode!Is that a bug?
-- fxn
Just in case you are wondering where does this convoluted experiment comes from: I am working in a Perl module that has some part written in C:
http://search.cpan.org/~fxn/Algorithm-Combinatorics/There's a file ending in .pm that is strictly a Perl module, but that actually is mostly C except for a few lines, since it uses Inline::C. I need C mode there to work normally.
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