Tom,

I agree with you. I use markdown for a number of things myself and most of my .txt files are really markdown.

Here is a hint that Allan sent out to the Bundle Developers list after I erroneously committed a change to the markdown language that caused it to claim text files.

If you want your txt files to open as Markdown, you can run this from Terminal.app (while TextMate is NOT running):

defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakLanguageFileBindings '({name = "Markdown"; fileTypes = (txt); language = "0A1D9874- B448-11D9-BD50-000D93B6E43C";})'

Language is the language UUID. Instead of fileTypes it's also possible to use firstLineMatch as key. Of course there'll be an UI ontop of this functionality later.

So far its worked great for me.

Brad

On May 7, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Tom Lazar wrote:

hi there,

I'd like some advice on how to best change the default language for .txt to markdown (90% of my plaintext is in markdown and i find that in the other 10% the markdown language doesn't break anything really, either - try it out on TextMate's README, for example...)

at the same time i like to stay current with the svn repository, so simply making a copy of the markdown bundle in ~/Application Support/TextMate/ wouldn't be viable either.

any suggestions?

best regards,

tom

btw. b8 looks really good! methinks it should be announced on versiontracker and such places! -- Tom Lazar http://tomster.org

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On May 7, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

To associate .txt with Markdown, from Terminal.app do (while TM is not running): defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakLanguageFileBindings '({name = "Markdown"; fileTypes = (txt); language = "0A1D9874- B448-11D9-BD50-000D93B6E43C";})'

while that worked as advertised I also tried to associate files ending in '.css.dtml' as CSS (it's a Zope thang, dynamically generated CSS files, cool stuff...) and entered

defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakLanguageFileBindings '({name = "CSS"; fileTypes = (css.dtml); language = "4675F24E-6227-11D9-BFB1-000D93589AF6";})'

any idea why that didn't work? (I did quit and then restart TextMate)

thanks again,

tom --

Tom Lazar http://tomster.org

On May 7, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

Currently it uses only the last extension of the filename.

ah, ok.

I can probably change it to a prefix match.

that woud be great! (at least for all the Zope developers among the TM users...)

Don't know if just using “dtml” would suffice for your purpose?

come to think of it: for this particular project: yes... (in fact, that's what i'll do for now...) but otherwise: no...

Btw: OakLanguageFileBindings is an array, so you'd need either to list all your associations: '( { name = ...; }, { name = ...} )' or use the “-array-add” option to defaults.

yeah, I realized that, when my CSS binding 'kicked out' my previous markdown binding... but thanks for mentioning the -array-add option - I didn't know about that one.

E.g.: defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakLanguageFileBindings -array-add '{name = "CSS"; fileTypes = (dtml); language = "4675F24E-6227-11D9-BFB1-000D93589AF6";}'

sometimes I feel guilty for stealing so much of your coding time ;-)

thanks again,

tom

Tom Lazar http://tomster.org