On Apr 21, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Chris Thomas wrote:
I don't think my concern about menu length is an invalid one. You're proposing adding five new Diff commands, assuming you replicate each of the existing commands, to what is already one of the longest command menus in TextMate.
When Allan provides a UI for grouping and enabling subsets of bundle commands, a separate set of commands will be great. Meanwhile, I'm not sure it's a good idea.
You're right.
We definitely have a scaling problem here.
Maybe in the mean time we should just have another shortcut for the filemerge versions of these.
What do you think about ctrl-shift-opt-a ?
That keeps the standard idea of what the option key is for.
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I'm not sure what the best long term solution is to this. Logically, they should all be grouped together, but in separate sub groups or something. But that begs the problem of how to lay that out properly in the UI. I don't think the cocoa menu API is good enough to handle much complexity.
I'd really like to have the icons in the list and maybe add some indenting or grouping or something. The current cocoa menu stuff breaks select-as-you-type when you group stuff.