[txmt-dev] Re: Global Bookmarks functionality

[Allan Odgaard]

On 29 Oct 2013, at 21:32, mbopp wrote:

> Thanks, this might pacify me.

If not, to answer your original question:

TextMate 2 does still store bookmarks in extended attributes, but it 
also has an internal API to set and get “marks” for arbitrary 
documents. This is used (mostly as proof of concept) when you do a 
folder search (all matching locations get a magnify glass in the gutter, 
which is never saved to disk).

It has always been my intention to improve upon this system, but I have 
just never gotten around to it. Improvements would be twofold: Allowing 
bundle commands to decorate the gutter (compiler errors etc.) and allow 
better navigation between (global) marks, like “go to next compiler 
error” shortcuts, or view all global bookmarks in a project.

There aren’t really any plug-ins for 2.0 and I generally recommend 
people just do pull requests: It’s always easier to write the 
functionality and separate it out into an isolated module, than it is 
for me to come up with some general purpose plug-in API that will solve 
whatever problem some plug-in writer may have in the future, and I’d 
also rather not make internal things public before absolutely necessary: 
I do have a somewhat clear idea of how I want the internal things to end 
up, before starting with the public APIs.