[TxMt] properties parser?

[Eric Hsu]

>I would like to automate some customization for some bundles (as
>colors), is the format in those .plist files standard (for instance
>Perl.plist)? If it is and you wanted to search for a parser for some
>programming language which keyword would you use?

If you are asking whether the 'names' of each color class (e.g. 
Comments) in the .plist is standard across the bundles, I'd say  it 
would be a miracle if they were, since they were all hacked by 
individuals who wanted their favorite language colored.

On the other hand, it might be possible for people to agree to use 
keywords in their names so the XML could be parsed and the color 
settings could be custom set by a big regexp search and replace.

For the record, BBEdit 8 recognizes the following colors for customization:

General: Foreground, Background
Guide Contrast [the color of non-page window]
Custom Highlight Color: Primary, Secondary
Highlight Insertion Point Line Color
Source Code: Keywords, String Constants, Comments
HTML Tags: General, Processing Instructions, Anchor, Image, Names, Values

TM bundles generally have more colors than that. But if Bundle 
writers could agree on a reasonable base set and rename their names, 
that could go a long way towards making the colors customizable 
before Allan gets his next solution done.

Allan may have to set standards like this anyway, unless he writes a 
small GUI Syntax File browser that displays the Names with a little 
Color Picker patch.  That would be fabulous, of course.

- Eric