[TxMt] Background/foreground colors

[Mats Persson]

On 4 Mar 2005, at 18:36, Allan Odgaard wrote in response to Raymond 
Brigleb writings:
> Though if you want black background for HTML/PHP then you may instead 
> want to just check out the latest PHP (+ CSS/JS) bundle from the 
> repository [1], since Mats Persson just committed a version with a 
> dark color scheme.

To clarify that point, the HTML, PHP, CSS & JS combined syntax files 
are stored in the PHP.tmbundle [1] in the repository.  If you - or 
anyone else - don't have Subversion installed which you need to check 
it out I'll be happy to send you the bundle off-list, just let me know. 
A better bundle download solution is, I'm sure, under development 
somewhere. :)

[1] http://anon:anon@macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/PHP.tmbundle/

For those not interested in PHP, but want the other bits, all of them 
will work fine on their own (without PHP) as well. Might merge the 
syntax files into the default HTML, CSS & JS syntax's later on if 
everything is working OK and that's OK with the grand master.


>> [...] I do like this program, but I assumed that it would come with 
>> documentation!!! Frankly, using this feels more like a scavenger 
>> hunt, not exactly par for commercial software.
> There will be better documentation, but most likely not before after 
> 1.1 final. The reason is twofold: 1) commercial software (or 
> shareware, as I prefer to call it) does not equal unlimited resources 
> and 2) the program is very much work in progress, and writing 
> documentation now and updating it while the program evolves, would 
> probably consume 3-4 times more time than just writing the 
> documentation when the program is more or less “stable” in basic 
> functionality.

As a paid up user since v 1.0, and not paid by Allan :)  I must say 
that there is a basic documentation in the Help Viewer, and if anything 
is missing from there, please just ping of a question like you did 
today, and someone - most likely the amazing Allan himself - will 
answer quickly. The ML has been a bit quiet lately, but that's also a 
good sign I guess.

However, I must stress the following point:  I would rather have Allan 
be productive in improving the app (as he has done fantastically well 
since 1.0) than spend his limited time writing documentation. I know 
there is a balance to be had here, but as things are currently I think 
that there is a fairly large group of users that are helping out in 
whatever way they can with answering questions, creating syntax's and 
commands etc.  Perhaps that group could also collaborate on creating a 
more extensive documentation on the Wiki ??? Sort of a mini TM 
Wikipedia.org thing.

Note to Allan: Perhaps the Help files could be editable on the wiki so 
that end users could add/amend the missing/insufficient parts. You 
could then pull down and include a version for each app release ?? Or 
something similar.

Working with TM - and the community around it - is the closest I have 
ever come to the true Mac experience with any commercial (shareware) 
app. Forget all the old <other editors> stuff and Think different! :)

Kind regards,

Mats

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