[SVN] REQ: commands choosing output

[Kevin Ballard]

I think getting rid of the existing choices is a bad idea - people who 
are new to bundle editing would find it harder to get started. They'd 
have to learn the escape codes and whatnot. And while you may say that 
it's pretty easy, it's still another barrier to writing your own 
commands and any barriers, no matter how small, will make at least some 
people stop right there. And people not willing to write their own 
commands means people who have one less feature of TextMate which means 
people who are a bit less likely to purchase.

So I'd suggest adding Interpret Stream (or whatever you decide) to the 
list. I don't think there's too many choices.

On Feb 20, 2005, at 2:38 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> I would like to introduce something that would allow the command to 
> select output, so far I've considered using escape codes similar to a 
> real terminal, so e.g. you'd do:
>
>    printf '\033[O:HTML]'
>
> Or similar to set the output to HTML. Though it would require some 
> thought before I venture into this -- maybe this could also reduce the 
> current clutter I think exists in the “output” popup menu (i.e. too 
> many choices IMHO).
>
> So there would be one new choice, namely “interpret stream” (in search 
> of a better name), and probably all the variants of insert/append 
> selection/document would be removed and would need to be done using 
> these escape codes instead (since all but replace document/selection 
> are probably rare output options -- and for compatibility I can just 
> insert the proper printf sequence when importing old commands that use 
> an exotic output form).

-- 
Kevin Ballard
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org
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