Soo, I saw this tm_dialog thing, and it inspired me to do some fancy stuff and figure out how to actually make TextMate bundles. And since I code for MUSHes periodically, and its a royal PITA, I thought I'd fix it to be not painful anymore.

If anyone's interested in it, you can grab it from http://ixokai.net/MUSHCode

From the readme I stuck in the .zip, if anyone's curious :) .....

The MUSHCode TextMate Bundle ----------------------------

1. The Language The language specification is currently very simple, but really, MUSHCode isn't too complicated of a "language" :) Notably, it adds attribute setting commands to the symbol list as long as they are the first thing to show up on a line, and are in the format of: &(header)(separator)(footer). The header must be alphanumeric. The separator must either a period, a dash or an underscore. The footer can contain any alphanumeric or separator characters.

2. Integrated Unformatter (Command+Shift+U) This will run the selected text or the entire document through the unformatter included with the bundle and compress the MUSHcode. The following rules are used by the unformatter process: * Any lines beginning with a # are considered comments, and will be omitted from the file. * All insignificant whitespace (including newlines) will be compressed. * If a line begins with a -, a newline will be inserted into the output. This does not have to be the only character on the line, but can be. * If a line begins with a ", the line will be processed as raw text. All whitespace (including newlines) will be preserved and converted into %b substitutions, unless it is more then 5 characters in a row in which case the space() function will be used instead. The following characters will also be escaped: % [ ] ( ) { } * Comments can contain 'directives', which contain instructions or options for other parts of the Bundle. These are in the format of: # directive: value

The following directives are currently in use: site -- This indicates the site that this code is for. Example: # site: yourgame.com 4201 user -- This indicates the wizard/user that will contain your code. Example: # user: Potrzebie object -- This maps a dbref to an alias. Example: # user: spelldb = #1234

At present, the above directives are only used by the Grab Text function, although other features will take advantage of them in the future.

3. Grab Text (Command+Shift+G) This is mostly a proof-of-concept more then it is a feature people will want to use, but it was fun and taught me how to do some things :) NOTE: This requires you to install Python 2.4 and PyObjC 1.7 (the only build that has Universal support)

The purpose of the Grab Text function is to connect to a game, obtain an attribute (or attributes), and display it to you (to copy into your current document).

When you invoke the function, it will prompt you with a dialog box that asks for the site, port, username, object and attribute. The site, port and username will be read from the directives in the current file if present, but they can be overridden. In the object field, you can specify objects you have defined in the object directives above instead of remembering the dbrefs.

Next, the system will prompt your password to this account. It will only do this the first time you connect to the specified site with this username. After you provide the password for the first time, it will be stored in your Keychain and automatically obtained for any future invocations. If you ever change your password, you'll have to modify it with the Keychain Access application in the future.

Once it has all the connection information it needs, it will connect to the MUSH and 'grab' the specified attributes. The 'attribute' field can contain wildcards to obtain more then one. This isn't the fastest operation in the world, depending on your internet access-- be patient!

Once it has all the data, it will display it to you in a window. You can copy/paste from here and then work on the code in your document.

The display window also has a 'Reformat' button that will run the MUSHcode through a -very- simple 'prettifier'-- although its not very pretty. I'm really how to best go about 'formatting' MUSHcode in a pretty way right... Ideas/implementations? :)

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This is just the module so far. I have a lot of ideas, and sorta want to turn TextMate into a neat little MUSHCode IDE. I have a couple *really* big coding projects I maintain and.. its all a bit of a pain. So, I'm wanting to make my life easier :) Some features I am thinking of implementing:

* A 'quote' or 'put text' feature to take the selected text (or the entire document), run it through the unformatter and deliver it onto the game directly. This would make use of the 'object' directives, so you can include things like: &cmd.xp/vote #VoteSystem=$cmd.+xp/vote *:... and it will automatically replace "#VoteSystem" with the specified dbrefs.

* The ability to split up a large project into multiple files in a single project, and have it "install" or "quote" the entire project at once. Perhaps with a specified order; directives to make one file depend on another and thus affect ordering of the installation/quoting would be fairly easy.

* At this point, the combination of Grab and Put gives me some very interesting possibilities: a 'compare' function to connect to the game and compare what is online to what is offline and show me what's missing. Perhaps with pretty HTML diffs even.

Any other ideas? :)