[TxMt] PHP Code Completion

[Ian White]

Many, many, thanks for TextMate!

> I'll be adding $TM_BUNDLE_DIRECTORY to one of the next betas, then you 
> can just put the whole thing into a bundle (i.e. the PHP manual) and 
> ship that instead (so it should be a drag'n'drop install).
Great, i'll sort that out when it appears.

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I'd like to eventually make a code completion add-on (probably not 
written in php) that does context sensitive completion, and which 
builds a database per project of project symbols.  e.g. when I type 
'$this->' and hit the complete key, I'll get a list of methods and 
properties of the current class (and methods of parent classes).  The 
compiler would use PHPDoc comments and class and function profiles to 
build the completion database.
It strikes me that having a TM_ variable that gives the first line of 
each enclosing code blocks would be extremely useful for looking up the 
correct set of symbols.  Any chance of this?  Or suggestions as to some 
other way of doing it?

Also, regarding commands, it would be nice if commands could be 
'chained', using the output of one as the input of the other.  In 
conjunction with this, if there was a new output type 'list' (like a 
snippet popup) then the user's selection could then be fed into a new 
command.  That way, code-completion could be interactive.

One last idea, could there be (is there?) some way of storing script 
variables across command executions?

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Thanks again for TextMate, truly awesome.

Ian