On Jul 12, 2017, at 23:43, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist@textmate.org> wrote:

On 3 Jul 2017, at 23:07, じょいすじょん wrote:

Setting or variable 'fontName' not found
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Is there a modern alternative to fontName?
Or, even better, a reference for that and other keys?

There is no good solution for this.

The tm_query tool is simply reading your various .tm_properties files (including the Default.tmProperties included with TextMate) and returning the requested value (or exiting with a non-zero return code if not found). So there is no fixed list of keys.

Originally the Default.tmProperties file had a setting for fontName but because Apple has changed the default fixed width font, it wasn’t good to put a hardcoded name in Default.tmProperties (since TextMate should default to the fixed width font that is default for the user’s OS version).

I am not sure for what the TextMate Jedi Completion bundle uses the font name, but it will need its own fallback, incase $TM_QUERY exits with a non-zero return code.

You can hardcode the fallback as Menlo-Regular but technically the user can override the system’s default fixed width font using the NSFixedPitchFont user defaults setting.

This can be obtained using: defaults read -g NSFixedPitchFont

The default size can be changed using the NSFixedPitchFontSize key.

OK, got it. So the response is correct, the key doesn't exist.

The defaults keys you provided also do not exist by default on my system.

There's not a great solution you're right.

Core Text and AppKit are both kind of vague.

The solution there seems to be to start with a font and apply the fixed width trait to get a descriptor for a font that comes close to matching somehow (who knows how? personal taste?) or present a UI and let a user select something. Still does not give a default does it? How loopy these APIs can be :(