[TxMt] TextMate protocol

[Allan Odgaard]

On Dec 14, 2004, at 0:03, Eric Ocean wrote:

> Awhile back I seem to remember Allen suggesting he could create a 
> TextMate protocol (e.g. txmt://path/to/my/file). I've come to the 
> conclusion that if this was available, I would use it a lot.

After finding out how close to impossible it is to write a command line 
tool that uses the ODB Editor Suite, and figuring out how I can detect 
if the URL request originates from within TM's web preview (to not 
perform dangerous operations requested from outside TM) I'm also 
convinced that this URL scheme is a good idea, and it's likely to 
appear in 1.1b1.

The syntax will be:
    txmt:open?url=protocol:/path/to/file&line=<number>&column=<number>

The arguments are optional and in the future I may think of other 
commands than “open”.

With this I'll also let the command output be to HTML views, which btw 
takes care of the in-app man-browser that has been requested, since the 
command would then just be:
    GROFF_TYPESETTER=html man -t $TM_CURRENT_WORD
With output set to HTML :)