Not sure if there's a wish list form somewhere anyways I have two semi odd ones...
It would be handy if there was a overlay feature in textmate much like you get in photo editing software. What would be really nice if there were X layers and if you could choose to name each layer and hide and show a layer. Also if each layer had a transparency setting it would be nice so you could have 10 layers that combined would appear to be almost one document. Maybe you could combine 10 peoples comments on your file.
My second wish list item is meta data for a text file. That is I could tag line 1 as having meta data of "this line is great". If a user adds more text to the document and line 1 is pushed down to line 10 that meta data should stay with the original data it was tagged on.
These requests stem from code reviewing.
Not saying anyone gives a rats about or that this is even remotly possible or usable. The ideas were on my mind and I thought I would post them.
Bob
Bob Henkel wrote:
It would be handy if there was a overlay feature in textmate much like you get in photo editing software. What would be really nice if there were X layers and if you could choose to name each layer and hide and show a layer.
This sounds about 10x more complex than 99% of people need. How about you just create a few themes which "show" or "hide" layers (scopes) by changing their colors to be more or less visible?
Also if each layer had a transparency setting it would be nice so you could have 10 layers that combined would appear to be almost one document. Maybe you could combine 10 peoples comments on your file.
Really not sure what you're getting at...
My second wish list item is meta data for a text file. That is I could tag line 1 as having meta data of "this line is great". If a user adds more text to the document and line 1 is pushed down to line 10 that meta data should stay with the original data it was tagged on.
Why not just use a plain text format which has some support for such metadata? For instance, most programming languages allow "comments".
-Jacob
I won't go into details about these. All I doing is throwing out an ideas nothing more. I do appreciate comments though.
The things I was listing in my mind would of been highly useful for code review actives. I'm not talking about Bob and the guy on the other side of the cube wall reviewing his code. I'm talking about 100+ developers working on a system with any number of people reviewing the same code. There are stand alone systems for this, this I know. What I wanted to do is find ways of allowing this all from within textmate. Being that it already allows you to type text and wash dishes I didn't think this was to far out there.
No harm in asking.
Bob
On 4/17/07, Jacob Rus jrus@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
Bob Henkel wrote:
It would be handy if there was a overlay feature in textmate much like
you
get in photo editing software. What would be really nice if there were X layers and if you could choose to name each layer and hide and show a layer.
This sounds about 10x more complex than 99% of people need. How about you just create a few themes which "show" or "hide" layers (scopes) by changing their colors to be more or less visible?
Also if each layer had a transparency setting it would be nice so you
could
have 10 layers that combined would appear to be almost one
document. Maybe
you could combine 10 peoples comments on your file.
Really not sure what you're getting at...
My second wish list item is meta data for a text file. That is I could
tag
line 1 as having meta data of "this line is great". If a user adds more text to the document and line 1 is pushed down to line 10 that meta data
should
stay with the original data it was tagged on.
Why not just use a plain text format which has some support for such metadata? For instance, most programming languages allow "comments".
-Jacob
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Bob Henkel wrote:
I won't go into details about these. All I doing is throwing out an ideas nothing more. I do appreciate comments though.
The things I was listing in my mind would of been highly useful for code review actives. I'm not talking about Bob and the guy on the other side of the cube wall reviewing his code. I'm talking about 100+ developers working on a system with any number of people reviewing the same code. There are stand alone systems for this, this I know. What I wanted to do is find ways of allowing this all from within textmate. Being that it already allows you to type text and wash dishes I didn't think this was to far out there.
No harm in asking.
I hope my reply didn't sound too dismissive or abrupt. It's always good to toss out ideas. I guess my questions are then,
* how do you imagine this working? * why would textmate be better than a custom app for such a specialized need? * what exactly is the use case? I don't know what "code reviews" necessarily means to you. * does anything that accomplishes these goals currently exist, that could perhaps give us a better idea of what you're talking about? * are any of textmate's existing features enough to do some of what you want? If not, could they be extended to that end? * etc.
Certainly don't give up on your dreams. But you have to explain them before they can be implemented.
-Jacob
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