[TxMt] TmCodeBrowser2 plugin!

[Allan Odgaard]

On 25/10/2005, at 17.50, Gerd Knops wrote:

> Eventually I hope to hook into the Syntax Coloring engine, so any  
> language TM knows would work.

Well, one of the reasons I haven't made a popup yet is, that the TM  
syntax coloring engine isn't really sufficient for all languages.  
I.e. there's no way it can capture obj-c multi-argument methods as  
one entity (since they are not that in the source), and coming up  
with rules to make it parse C++ functions is also all but simple (if  
not impossible).

So while it has the advantage of not repeating everything for the  
function popup/code browser, and supporting mixed documents (HTML  
with embedded CSS, JS, Ruby, PHP, etc.), it's not really working for  
the two languages I primarely use.

It also fails to capture source structure (scoping), so it wouldn't  
be able to show e.g. class methods, inner/local/anonymous classes  
under the class etc.


And great work making your ctags implementation work with TM! I'm  
curious, do you get by alone by NSWindow notification and querying  
representedFile? I'd think the tab-switching would require a little  
more than that!?!

I can easily add (i.e. next build) that TM e.g. loads extensions from  
AppSupport/TextMate/Plugins — it seems for your “plugin” it wouldn't  
need to expose any API, thus it's a safe way to slowly extend TM to  
support plugins (my conservatism is primarily caused by the fear of  
having to maintain a stupid legacy API for all eternity, that and  
lack of time of course).