[TxMt] Highlighting changes made to a document

[Chris Messina]

+1. This sounds like a great idea.

Chris

Andrew Green wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Firstly, heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Allan on the latest 
>beta.  TextMate is getting better and better, seriously quickly.
>
>There's still one key feature from SubEthaEdit I'd *love* to see in 
>TextMate, and that's the ability to highlight changes made to a 
>document as they're made, using a background colour -- in much the same 
>way that TM can now highlight the current line.
>
>By way of context, much of my work involves updating and tweaking code 
>I've already written, and a great side-effect of the way SEE implements 
>its collaborative editing is that any changes you make to a file can be 
>highlighted as you go using a background colour of your choice.  This 
>makes it incredibly easy to see just what I've changed in the current 
>session, so when I introduce bugs, I can very rapidly find what I've 
>done and put it right.
>
>Could such a feature be included in TM?  Or would it conflict horribly 
>with the new syntax highlighting system?
>
>Cheers,
>Andrew.
>  
>


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