[TxMt] XML support?

[Allan Odgaard]

On 3. Nov 2004, at 13:02, David Casal wrote:

> Ok so two last questions...do you expect that when you add recursion 
> support, people will be able to use say (oh please) a bundle editor to 
> do things like 'don't let me close parent tags against that namespace 
> unless their child tags are closed'  ?

If you by “don't let me close” means something like “make the 
background of a misplaced close tag red” then yes, that'll be easy.

E.g. <foo><bar></foo> would have </foo> stand out in some way, until 
you insert </bar> in front of it.

> And, are the TD team

For the records, it's TM and I'm the only programmer ;)

> expecting that things like XML support and other bundles are always 
> going to be up to users to craft? Meaning, will you never yourselves 
> develop bundles?

I don't think I'm the best person to do bundles for languages I don't 
know/use. And currently I also think my time “programming” is best 
spent on actual TextMate development, since I'm currently the only 
person with access to that source ;)

Long term, I may help out if there's an area which needs attention, but 
TM is less than a month old, and already there are quite a large number 
of user submissions, even w/o a GUI editor for the syntax files -- so I 
don't think it'll be a problem with neglected languages, and when TM 
gets an in-app editor for the syntax files, I think it'll be much less 
intimidating to roll your own syntax for whatever you're working on. 
E.g. doing quick ad hock syntax highlighting for your GTD lists or 
similar ;)