[TxMt] Color Consistency across Syntax Bundles (was: Italics in syntax bundles)

[Chris Thomas]

On Nov 23, 2004, at 8:33 PM, Timothy Martens wrote:

> Please do. Let's stir up the discussion on this. While I believe the 
> icon discussion is relevant, it had little do do with the 
> application's ease of use. Syntax color consitancy, however, could 
> increase Textmate's usability for those of us who commonly switch 
> between syntaxes.
>

Keep in mind that Alan wrote this on October 7:

> I think I'll do something similar to style sheets for the next version 
> of the syntax highlight system (which will be a major upgrade, no ETA 
> yet though -- I can send a full description to this list for comments 
> when all details are settled) -- global names alone has the problem 
> that "string" may appear as a name in e.g. both HTML and the embedded 
> PHP (where they should probably differ in color), and/or that in some 
> languages, it does make sense to color strings differently than what's 
> generally wanted.
>
> But style sheets a la CSS with selectors would probably be pretty 
> flexible. Initially we postponed this, because we figured it would 
> come off as too complex. But given the proper GUI editor, it'll 
> probably appear as a huge simplification for most ;)
>

Hopefully, that's still planned. I imagine the surprise demand for 
printing used some development time that would otherwise have been 
spent on it, though. :)

Chris