On Nov 23, 2004, at 8:33 PM, Timothy Martens wrote:
Please do. Let's stir up the discussion on this. While I believe the icon discussion is relevant, it had little do do with the application's ease of use. Syntax color consitancy, however, could increase Textmate's usability for those of us who commonly switch between syntaxes.
Keep in mind that Alan wrote this on October 7:
I think I'll do something similar to style sheets for the next version of the syntax highlight system (which will be a major upgrade, no ETA yet though -- I can send a full description to this list for comments when all details are settled) -- global names alone has the problem that "string" may appear as a name in e.g. both HTML and the embedded PHP (where they should probably differ in color), and/or that in some languages, it does make sense to color strings differently than what's generally wanted.
But style sheets a la CSS with selectors would probably be pretty flexible. Initially we postponed this, because we figured it would come off as too complex. But given the proper GUI editor, it'll probably appear as a huge simplification for most ;)
Hopefully, that's still planned. I imagine the surprise demand for printing used some development time that would otherwise have been spent on it, though. :)
Chris