On Dec 30, 2004, at 23:28, Eric Hsu wrote:

1. Allow undo from find/replace dialog. Lots of times I enter in the

wrong regular expression and the find/replace goes badly. I want to hit apple-Z and Undo it and fire up another search, but instead I have to switch to the text window.

hmm... so undo should fall through to the main window? currently I could do that, but if I introduce a multi-line mode for the find/replace strings it would probably be natural for these to also have undo/redo, which would then clash!?!

2. It would be great if the new ( :) ) txmt: resource locator allows

us to load things like txmt://a.pdf, which would then get loaded into the web preview window. Reason: I want to hack up a replacement for TeXShop within TM. Already you can make a command to have pdftex create a .pdf output file and open it in Preview. I'd like it to show up in TM! It would feel cleaner that way.

Agree -- although probably it should just be the command output which could be interpreted as PDF, or I should add an AppleScript hook, the txmt://-scheme is mostly to allow callbacks from HTML (for which I'm not aware of an alternative), not general callbacks.

OS X does have the ability to display PDF, but much of the functionality in the Preview app is custom AFAIK, so I'm not sure how easy it is to replicate it, but I'll take a look -- I did see that Tiger will introduce a PDF Kit (from their announced workshops, I'm not in any beta program) which I would imagine is the functionality in Preview factored out into a framework.

3. Allow syntax files to be reloaded. Then we could edit them within

TM and see the results without quitting and restarting.

Yes, I would like to see this handled entirely from within TextMate, which should hopefully also encourage the creation of ad hoc scratch syntaxes, like matching bullet points in plain text, e.g.:

{ name = Text; patterns = ( { name = Item; match = "^ ?[*o•·] .*$"; } ); };

And then have the ability to create a macro bound to return which repeats the leading bullet for the new line and limits it to “Text > Item” in the CSS-inspired way I want to have everything applied (style, settings, macros, snippets, commands, etc.).

All part of my master plan which I hope soon to turn into reality :)

Currently the missing piece of the puzzle is how I should pull this off with a GUI -- probably though I'll have to resort to a lot of text boxes, which I guess is sometimes the price for flexibility.