Tab Bar - Position
I think the tab bar should be placed only above the right-hand edit pane, not above the file browser sidebar. This would mean that the file browser would be the full-height of the window.
I think this would make more visual sense...
The tabs relate to the files open in the edit pane, so should be attached to this part of the screen, not sneaking out over to the left. Also, when the sidebar is opened/closed the tabs would always be above the edit pane, whatever the state of the sidebar.
Tab Bar - Text Colour
The non-selected tabs are quite hard to read (with black text on a dark grey background). Maybe a lighter text colour would be clearer
File Browser and Gutter - Theme
Please allow the file browser and the gutter (containing the line numbers) to have an optional dark 'theme' - the white/light grey background is quite jarring when you're using a dark theme for the editor
Indentation Level Markers
It would be great to have some indication of the current indent level (to help line things up vertically).
(Sublime Text 2 does this really nicely, with feint, visible lines indicating the indent levels, that brighten in the area that the cursor is positioned in - thus being both subtle and visibly useful when editing an area of text)
Regards
SC
Steve Copley wrote:
Tab Bar - Position
I think the tab bar should be placed only above the right-hand edit pane, not above the file browser sidebar. This would mean that the file browser would be the full-height of the window.
I agree this makes sense, but I would rather have the extra horizontal space so that the tabs don't get as squished.
File Browser and Gutter - Theme
Please allow the file browser and the gutter (containing the line numbers) to have an optional dark 'theme' - the white/light grey background is quite jarring when you're using a dark theme for the editor
I totally agree with this. It would be great to have full style customization.
Indentation Level Markers
It would be great to have some indication of the current indent level (to help line things up vertically).
(Sublime Text 2 does this really nicely, with feint, visible lines indicating the indent levels, that brighten in the area that the cursor is positioned in - thus being both subtle and visibly useful when editing an area of text)
I work a lot with indented source like haml, sass and yaml, so this would be really useful. Most of the time I have to use column-select to line things up. It would be much better to have a visual indicator built in.
File Browser and Gutter - Theme
Please allow the file browser and the gutter (containing the line numbers) to have an optional dark 'theme' - the white/light grey background is quite jarring when you're using a dark theme for the editor
I totally agree with this. It would be great to have full style customization.
I agree with this. I suggested earlier that it would be nice to be able to include file browser styles in themes.
I would also like to have a preference to move the toolbar for the file browser to the bottom of the file browser. This would be very much preferable for me. Hopefully we'll get the new file and new folder buttons back in the toolbar as well...
On Dec 17, 2011, at 2:57 PM, mwean wrote:
Indentation Level Markers
It would be great to have some indication of the current indent level (to help line things up vertically).
I work a lot with indented source like haml, sass and yaml, so this would be really useful.
Note that this has always been possible with some careful massaging of the language definitions and schemes, example:
IIRC the stock perl language definition provides this, define 'even-tab' and 'odd-tab' in your scheme to make this visible. Granted a bit of a hack but possible, I added it to the syntaxes of my most used languages years ago.
Gerd
I work a lot with indented source like haml, sass and yaml, so this would be really useful.
Alternatively you can use invisibles + tabs for indentation in your sources which will get you:
What I miss so far in TM2 is current line highlight. Also seems TM2 does not respect alpha values for colors, I had #000000EF for invisibles, but they were invisible with that setting, had to put 24bit #DDDDDD value instead.
Please allow the file browser and the gutter (containing the line numbers) to have an optional dark 'theme' - the white/light grey background is quite jarring when you're using a dark theme for the editor
I totally agree with this. It would be great to have full style customization.
+1 for setting colors (text/bg) for file browser and gutter.
I think the tab bar should be placed only above the right-hand edit pane, not above the file browser sidebar. This would mean that the file browser would be the full-height of the window.
I do agree too. Also I wish the tabs were upsite down like TM1 (or like Xcode/Safari) in fact, coz these are hardly readable.
Cheers,
Couldn't agree more with suggestions for tab bar positioning. I found it quite disturbing to start with, now I just find it annoying.
Steve Copley wrote:
Tab Bar - Position
I think the tab bar should be placed only above the right-hand edit pane, not above the file browser sidebar. This would mean that the file browser would be the full-height of the window.
I think this would make more visual sense...
The tabs relate to the files open in the edit pane, so should be attached to this part of the screen, not sneaking out over to the left. Also, when the sidebar is opened/closed the tabs would always be above the edit pane, whatever the state of the sidebar.
Tab Bar - Text Colour
The non-selected tabs are quite hard to read (with black text on a dark grey background). Maybe a lighter text colour would be clearer
File Browser and Gutter - Theme
Please allow the file browser and the gutter (containing the line numbers) to have an optional dark 'theme' - the white/light grey background is quite jarring when you're using a dark theme for the editor
Indentation Level Markers
It would be great to have some indication of the current indent level (to help line things up vertically).
(Sublime Text 2 does this really nicely, with feint, visible lines indicating the indent levels, that brighten in the area that the cursor is positioned in - thus being both subtle and visibly useful when editing an area of text)
Regards
SC
I like the extra tab space. It was weird at first but when I have 8+ tabs open on a laptop screen, I really appreciate it.
On Dec 17, 2011, at 6:24 PM, MeetDom comments@meetdom.com wrote:
Couldn't agree more with suggestions for tab bar positioning. I found it quite disturbing to start with, now I just find it annoying.
Steve Copley wrote:
Tab Bar - Position
I think the tab bar should be placed only above the right-hand edit pane, not above the file browser sidebar. This would mean that the file browser would be the full-height of the window.
I think this would make more visual sense...
The tabs relate to the files open in the edit pane, so should be attached to this part of the screen, not sneaking out over to the left. Also, when the sidebar is opened/closed the tabs would always be above the edit pane, whatever the state of the sidebar.
Tab Bar - Text Colour
The non-selected tabs are quite hard to read (with black text on a dark grey background). Maybe a lighter text colour would be clearer
File Browser and Gutter - Theme
Please allow the file browser and the gutter (containing the line numbers) to have an optional dark 'theme' - the white/light grey background is quite jarring when you're using a dark theme for the editor
Indentation Level Markers
It would be great to have some indication of the current indent level (to help line things up vertically).
(Sublime Text 2 does this really nicely, with feint, visible lines indicating the indent levels, that brighten in the area that the cursor is positioned in - thus being both subtle and visibly useful when editing an area of text)
Regards
SC
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