[TextMate] feature request: better support for .textClipping files

[Chris Thomas]

For historical reasons, it's a purely Resource Manager resource-based 
format. Select some text in any application, drag it to the Finder to 
create a "*.textClipping" file, and then run /Developer/Tools/DeRez on 
it to examine the resources.

(IIRC, clippings were originally introduced with the classic Mac OS 
Drag Manager in 1993. The idea was that they'd have the unique property 
of being viewable directly in the Finder. At the time, this was nice, 
and  text and picture (PICT) clippings were supported by the system, 
but Apple never followed through with content type plugins for third 
party content, or even more advanced built-in formats, so application 
support was likewise limited. Also keep in mind that this was when the 
Finder was considerably more consistent and usable than it is today, 
and there wasn't a ridiculous ".textClipping" extension tagged to 
clippings...)

Chris

On Oct 7, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Sune Foldager wrote:

> About text clipping files... anyone happen to have a good link to a 
> place describing the exact file format etc.?
>
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