Would it be possible to make a command output option that displays as a menu. It would be like the current behaviour of commands, snippets etc that have the same key command.
You could then have commands like 'ls $TM_FILEPATH', and choose from the list.
Max Williams
On Feb 18, 2005, at 18:52, machinate@machinate.org wrote:
Would it be possible to make a command output option that displays as a menu. [...]
I would like to allow this, since it'd give several benefits. But the problem is how to 'describe' the action that selecting the menu item should lead to.
E.g. you may wish it to execute another command, insert a snippet, or similar.
One solution is to have the command output XML that TM would parse to figure out what to do with the output, then I could also allow for more than just menus, and some say that the X is for eXtensible ;) but I also think that XML is a complex beast for something as simple as putting up a menu.
On 19. feb 2005, at 6:09, Allan Odgaard wrote:
One solution is to have the command output XML that TM would parse to figure out what to do with the output, then I could also allow for more than just menus, and some say that the X is for eXtensible ;) but I also think that XML is a complex beast for something as simple as putting up a menu.
There are also things like YaML(?), which are—at least for the user—much easier to deal with that XML.
On Feb 19, 2005, at 14:28, Sune Foldager wrote:
One solution is to have the command output XML that TM would parse to figure out what to do with the output, then I could also allow for more than just menus, and some say that the X is for eXtensible ;) but I also think that XML is a complex beast for something as simple as putting up a menu.
There are also things like YaML(?), which are—at least for the user—much easier to deal with that XML.
I'm not entirely sure I agree. I haven't used YAML for anything serious, but since it basically has special constructs for every data type, it requires one to refer quite a lot to the documentation.
And for the interoperability issue it would then probably make more sense to go with the ASCII property list format which is already well known by many TextMate users -- in fact I could allow the user to select between this or the XML version, just like with the syntax files.
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