On Sep 27, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:

On 27 Sep 2007, at 14:10, Takaaki Kato wrote:

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Is there a way to find or colorize double-byte space that in the document? I've been using a double-byle language, called Japanese with TextMate. The problem I encounter every now and then is to mistakenly type double-byte spaces where they, as they are treated as strings, are now allowed.

At this time, there's no way to distinguish double-byte spaces and single-byte spaces in the document window.

I guess there would be a way to find the space by grep and highlight it adding scope in language grammars. Right? Anybody?

Well, there are several ways to handle this. The easiest would be to replace all '　' with ' ' before save the file or do something with the file.

If you want to see these double byte space you can add this in a language grammar under 'patterns':

{ match = '[^　]*(　)[^　]*'; captures = { 1 = { name = 'meta.character.DBSpace'; }; }; },

and finally you can add an element within TM's preferences > Fonts & Colors called 'DBSpace' with the scope selector 'meta.character.DBSpace' and set the background color (BG) to what ever you like.

The next idea would be to create a snippet with a single ASCII SPACE and bind it to a key equivalent SPACE.

Thanks Hans,

The highlighting works. I'm pretty surprised to see the simple grep matching. I was expecing some difficult grep to grab the spaces.

I'm not supresseing every double-byte spaces because double-byte spaces should be allowed in Japanese strings.

Takaaki