Yes, write a regular script that reads a CSS file (preferably from stdin)

Thanks Allan, this is a lot clearer now.

Just a couple more questions..

Would you expect it to be pure shell/bashscript, or could I use node/php etc?

I know some bundles use ruby or node, but with CSS being a core bundle I'm not sure if you try to reduce runtime dependencies?

So it should track the line number and could also track the column number, but for now, the result will be the same (since we add to the gutter rather than inlined).

Ok, I will output column offset anyway, and then TM can just ignore it

What are your thoughts when a line has more than one color.... border-color: #F00 #0F0 #00F #FF0;

I could either just output the first color and discard the rest

Or I could output them all, in reverse order (maybe for future use somehow?)

This would mean they are all included, but the first color ends up overwriting the latter ones in the gutter.

It needs to be written to disk, I suggest using a location like `~/Library/Caches/com.macromates.textmate.colors/` and then you can also skip generating an image if the file already exist.

Safe to just hardcode this path relative to ~/ ?

Or should I be basing it on some $TM_ENV_VAR ?

I think one solution could be that if the path supplied to `--clear-mark` ends with a slash, it will clear all marks which are descendents of that path, so that the script only need to make one call to `--clear-mark` rather than one per image it has previously set/generated.

This seems like a good solution.

Should I namespace my 'colors' dir to include a bundle name subdir?

~/Library/Caches/com.macromates.textmate.colors/css/*.eps

Im thinking if another bundle was ever to use this gutter color api, my bundle can call

--clear-mark ~/Library/Caches/com.macromates.textmate.colors/css/

and it would avoid clearing any color marks other bundles might have set?

Not sure, perhaps I'm overthinking it :-)

Thanks

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