Hi,
Firstly, heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Allan on the latest beta. TextMate is getting better and better, seriously quickly.
There's still one key feature from SubEthaEdit I'd *love* to see in TextMate, and that's the ability to highlight changes made to a document as they're made, using a background colour -- in much the same way that TM can now highlight the current line.
By way of context, much of my work involves updating and tweaking code I've already written, and a great side-effect of the way SEE implements its collaborative editing is that any changes you make to a file can be highlighted as you go using a background colour of your choice. This makes it incredibly easy to see just what I've changed in the current session, so when I introduce bugs, I can very rapidly find what I've done and put it right.
Could such a feature be included in TM? Or would it conflict horribly with the new syntax highlighting system?
Cheers, Andrew.
+1. This sounds like a great idea.
Chris
Andrew Green wrote:
Hi,
Firstly, heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Allan on the latest beta. TextMate is getting better and better, seriously quickly.
There's still one key feature from SubEthaEdit I'd *love* to see in TextMate, and that's the ability to highlight changes made to a document as they're made, using a background colour -- in much the same way that TM can now highlight the current line.
By way of context, much of my work involves updating and tweaking code I've already written, and a great side-effect of the way SEE implements its collaborative editing is that any changes you make to a file can be highlighted as you go using a background colour of your choice. This makes it incredibly easy to see just what I've changed in the current session, so when I introduce bugs, I can very rapidly find what I've done and put it right.
Could such a feature be included in TM? Or would it conflict horribly with the new syntax highlighting system?
Cheers, Andrew.
On Jan 25, 2005, at 13:04, Andrew Green wrote:
[...] highlight changes made to a document as they're made, using a background colour -- in much the same way that TM can now highlight the current line. [...]
Could such a feature be included in TM? Or would it conflict horribly with the new syntax highlighting system?
I'm adding this to the 'maybe' section of my to-do. I guess it mainly depends on how much this will interfere with other parts of the TextMate source, but I think I can do that feature pretty self-contained (but I won't get around to it before a lot of other things are done though).
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:56:51 +0100, Allan Odgaard wrote:
I'm adding this to the 'maybe' section of my to-do...
That's good enough for me! Thanks, Allan.
(but I won't get around to it before a lot of other things are done though).
Of course -- fair enough. My breath is nonetheless bated.
Cheers, Andrew.
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