[TxMt] scope in status bar

[Allan Odgaard]

On Apr 23, 2005, at 21:43, Mats Persson wrote:

> On 23 Apr 2005, at 19:28, Sune Foldager wrote:
>> I've also asked for this since right after TM was released ;-).
> Hmm, Sune, yet again you beat me to it. But me thinks you've got an 
> unfair advantage ;-)

Actually, Sune is Nostradamus re-incarnated, making requests instead of 
predictions. That also explains why he can request an addition to a 
feature five months before the feature debuts! :)

But regarding scope: there will be a $TM_SCOPE in beta 7. I would like 
to show a bread crumb trail or customized string based on the scope in 
the status bar, but the raw scope is probably a bit too unfriendly.

For creating themes, with beta 7 you'll be able to show scope as 
tooltip, copy to clipboard or similar using a command (and $TM_SCOPE), 
but I'm also considering allowing the user to toggle visibility of 
scope-markers, basically turning the current source into an XML 
document, where the tags are based on the scopes. I think this will be 
helpful to better get an idea of what the scope actually means and it 
may also prove possible to do cool XSLT stuff on your source for 
web-publishing or XPath/XQuery extractions etc.

But for here and now: when you create a new settings item in the theme 
editor, it will put the exact scope of the caret into the scope field. 
So if you want to target a particular element, just place the caret on 
that element and make a new settings item (and probably trim the scope 
specifier to be more general afterwards).