[TxMt Plugins] Re: Run command on Event and other stuff

[Tim Shadel]

On 8/6/05, Allan Odgaard <allan at macromates.com> wrote:
> On 06/08/2005, at 16.41, Brian Lalor wrote:
> 
> >> Currently there are no hooks for these things, but it could happen
> >> through a plugin. Something which is soon to debut -- are you
> >> familiar with writing Objective-C? if so, I'd suggest subscribing
> >> to textmate-plugins [1] (and there should soon be the required
> >> notifications by means of a plugin).
> > Does this mean plugins will now be implemented in ObjC instead of
> > Java?  Can we use Python and PyObjC?
> 
> The plugin will be a bundle (OS bundle, not tmbundle) with a
> principal class that TM loads. AFAIK OS X allows this class to be
> written in either Java or Objective-C. In practice you could make a
> plugin that has the implementation in whatever language you want, as
> long as it's possible to bridge to the obj-c runtime.

So I'll be able to write my plugin in Java?  Any pointers to docs on
how to do this or where to start?  I know Java already, so I'd rather
not try Objective-C for a small one-off project if I can avoid it
(though I'm sure I'll want to at some point...).

Thanks,

Tim