So, a long while ago, I mentioned I was working on a Velocity bundle for use with Textmate (and e, etc). We've been using a version of this internally at work, and it served our purposes reasonably well.

Having read James Edward Gray's superb book, I decided to rewrite the bundle from scratch. The initial language grammar was very much a reverse-engineering job based on other grammars. This time around, I started from scratch, and based my grammar on JEG's tips and on the Velocity documentation (which served as a useful spec and test suite).

An initial public release of the bundle is available here:

http://code.google.com/p/txm-vtl-bundle/

and you can get the bundle itself thus:

svn checkout http://txm-vtl-bundle.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

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I'd be really interested in feedback, fixes, and patches. Do use the GoogleCode issue tracker, and do submit diff files. I'm particularly interested in more snippets - I've literally put in the basic stuff we use (and nothing specific to our templating) - but am aware many people use Velocity in different manners. Also, if anyone wants to produce grammars for Velocity-XML (or whatever), based upon the Velocity-HTML grammar, feel free.

Sorry it took so long to make public. I hope people find it useful, and that we can improve it together - and at some point get it into the official repository (if you're around, Allan...)

All the best,

t.