I'm looking for help implementing a few features for my screenwriting bundle.
The features I'm looking to implement are beyond my knowledge, but I'm sure will be trivial to a ruby-master or something. So if you're interested in helping me out, please drop me a line and I'll explain what I want to do.
The reason I don't just ask you how to do these things is that I'm afraid they might be too basic for this list.
I've always wondered about what kinds of questions are appropriate for this list. I'm hesitant to ask basic code questions regarding things I'm trying to do in TextMate but have nothing to do with TextMare per-se; for example, a complex regexp problem one might have.
Clearly we don't want this list to become littered with help requests for things that are not directly TextMate-related. But at the same time, I would never have been able to create the bundle I have without the patient explanations of so many of the people on this list.
So my question is, where is the line? I'd be curious to know what you all think.
--oliver
Best thing to do is hop over to the [IRC channel][chan] and ask around there.
[chan]: irc://chat.freenode.net/##textmate
On Dec 6, 2006, at 7:04 PM, Oliver Taylor wrote:
I'm looking for help implementing a few features for my screenwriting bundle.
The features I'm looking to implement are beyond my knowledge, but I'm sure will be trivial to a ruby-master or something. So if you're interested in helping me out, please drop me a line and I'll explain what I want to do.
The reason I don't just ask you how to do these things is that I'm afraid they might be too basic for this list.
I've always wondered about what kinds of questions are appropriate for this list. I'm hesitant to ask basic code questions regarding things I'm trying to do in TextMate but have nothing to do with TextMare per-se; for example, a complex regexp problem one might have.
Clearly we don't want this list to become littered with help requests for things that are not directly TextMate-related. But at the same time, I would never have been able to create the bundle I have without the patient explanations of so many of the people on this list.
So my question is, where is the line? I'd be curious to know what you all think.
Oliver Taylor wrote:
I'm looking for help implementing a few features for my screenwriting bundle.
The features I'm looking to implement are beyond my knowledge, but I'm sure will be trivial to a ruby-master or something. So if you're interested in helping me out, please drop me a line and I'll explain what I want to do.
The reason I don't just ask you how to do these things is that I'm afraid they might be too basic for this list.
I've always wondered about what kinds of questions are appropriate for this list. I'm hesitant to ask basic code questions regarding things I'm trying to do in TextMate but have nothing to do with TextMare per-se; for example, a complex regexp problem one might have.
Clearly we don't want this list to become littered with help requests for things that are not directly TextMate-related. But at the same time, I would never have been able to create the bundle I have without the patient explanations of so many of the people on this list.
So my question is, where is the line? I'd be curious to know what you all think.
I have 2 answers for you.
1. Hop onto IRC. Someone will be able to help you in real-time, and it will be much more effective than the mailing list. The channel you want is ##textmate on irc.freenode.net. Colloquy is a pretty decent IRC client if your needs are basic (like mine).
irc://irc.freenode.net/##textmate
2. If the question is about building a TextMate bundle, particularly one that you will release to other users, please ask any and all questions on the list (as long as they don't stray too far off topic). I.e. as long as the S/N ratio stays high, an extra few emails helping better bundles get created is all to the good. Bundle creation is directly TextMate related, so go ahead and ask away!
-Jacob
* Jacob Rus jrus@hcs.harvard.edu [2006-12-06 17:24]:
irc://irc.freenode.net/##textmate
I hardly ever see IRC URIs, so I tried this one. open(1) doesn't like it because it's not actually valid: the '#' is reserved as the fragment delimiter, so when open sees two of them it decides the URI must actually be a file name.
Encoding gives the uglier irc://irc.freenode.net/#%23textmate. Actually, the channel name isn't a fragment, so it should really be irc://irc.freenode.net/%23%23textmate.
Ugly, but it works.
And yes, I realize I just posted this to a thread about off-topic posts.
On Dec 7, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Grant Hollingworth wrote:
- Jacob Rus jrus@hcs.harvard.edu [2006-12-06 17:24]:
irc://irc.freenode.net/##textmate
I hardly ever see IRC URIs, so I tried this one. open(1) doesn't like it because it's not actually valid: the '#' is reserved as the fragment delimiter, so when open sees two of them it decides the URI must actually be a file name.
Actually I am not sure the IRC scheme has ever been officially approved, whatever that would mean, perhaps I'm mistaken. In any case, open irc://irc.freenode.net/#textmate redirects to the correct thing (don't ask).
Encoding gives the uglier irc://irc.freenode.net/#%23textmate. Actually, the channel name isn't a fragment, so it should really be irc://irc.freenode.net/%23%23textmate.
Ugly, but it works.
And yes, I realize I just posted this to a thread about off-topic posts.
Haris
* Charilaos Skiadas skiadas@hanover.edu [2006-12-07 11:56]:
Actually I am not sure the IRC scheme has ever been officially approved, whatever that would mean, perhaps I'm mistaken.
I think the closest it's come is an IETF draft that expired two and a half years ago. I was referring to the URI RFC when I said '#' is reserved. The IRC draft makes an exception to that rule.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04#section-2.5.1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
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