OK I know this is a lame feature that probably only I would use, but here are my thoughts & maybe someone has a suggestion or maybe it could make its way into TextMate 9.1 or something... I know there are keyboard shortcuts to focus on the drawer and to show the drawer, but I'd love a shortcut to toggle the size of the drawer. By that I mean:
Initial State: Project window with drawer of n px width. (TM "remembers" and saves this value) Closed State: Drawer is hidden, but project window resizes its width to fill the space that was once occupied by the drawer. Expanded state: project drawer increases its width until all items in the drawer are displayed without any ellipsis (...) characters. The window resizes (reduces) its width to make room for the drawer.
In all of the modes the sum of window width + drawer width would remain equal. The reason I bring it up is that I almost always work with TM zoomed to fill the screen. Toggling the drawer on/off does not resize the window so it doesn't improve the size of the project window. Also, if I have several nested folders, it becomes difficult to read file names when the drawer is kept narrow. I'm constantly dragging folders from the drawer to the dock icon to open temporary sub-projects or revealing files in the finder just to view the files full names.
I don't expect that this is something that enough people need to warrant major development time, but I thought I'd just voice my opinion. Maybe TM 2.0 will open up something that a plugin can use to handle this functionality?
If anyone sees some obvious currently available solution I'm overlooking please let me know.
- Cliff