[TxMt] File navigation feature requests

[Justin French]

On 21/01/2005, at 5:39 PM, Tobias Luetke wrote:

> The first and bigger proposal is to bring intelligent file opening to
> textmate. This works much like quicksilver. A hotkey opens a edit
> window and an attached dropdown window specializes itself more and
> more as you type.
> A simple search would be "user" which would offer you all files with
> the word user in them.
> A more complex example would be typing "usrg" with would find
> USeR_Gateway.rb, USeRGlobals  so on. I recommending installing
> quicksilver for a demonstration of the paradigm. Its great emerging
> technology and would be a great competitive advantage to have natively
> in TM. The same code could later be used to jumping to methods within
> a file.

Actually, this already exists in my current private beta version (which 
I think Allan is releasing in the next day).  Just hit Command-T and 
enjoy :)  Allan posted something about this earlier today, so search 
the archives :)

> Another proposal would be introduction of intelligent tab fading.
> During inactivity the least recently used tabs start to fade out and
> close themselves after a while. This happens slower when there is lots
> of space in the tab bar and faster the more items there are. This
> would be great to cut the tab clutter and get rid of files
> automatically with which you are done. Currently i'm finding myself
> using close all windows all the time.

This sounds like a *really* good idea.  I'm going to bug Allan on AIM 
every day until he does this :)

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Justin French, Indent.com.au
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Web Application Development & Graphic Design