[TxMt] Two issues with TextMates and Objective-C

[Michael Gregoire]

For the first mentioned problem, the indentation after the opening  
brace is affected by the brace's location. I find that placing my  
braces in this form:

- (id)performMethodWithLongName:(id)foo
                           and:(id)bar
{
     // ...
}

fixes any strange indentation issues. Though, it also forces you to  
change your coding style slightly.

This is definitely something that needs to be rectified with TextMate  
though. Programmers shouldn't have to change their coding style to  
suit the application's quirks.

Peace
Mike



On May 23, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Greg Miller wrote:

> I just started using TextMate about a week ago, and so far I love  
> it.  But I
> write a lot of Objective-C and I see two issues that may get  
> annoying fast.
> I'd love to hear if anyone is aware of a fix or if I'm just  
> overlooking
> something.
>
> Problems:
>
> 1) If I write an method implementation that looks like:
>
> - (id)performMethodWithLongName:(id)foo
>                           and:(id)bar {
>                             // ...
> }
>
> The autoindent on the first line of the method body is messed up.   
> I have my
> editor set to use "Soft Tabs: 2", but I don't end up two spaces  
> from the left
> margin, rather I end up two spaces after the column where the  
> "and:" method
> parameter started.  It looks like the autoindent spacing is  
> determined by the
> location of the preceding line, but I'm not sure this will work  
> well with the
> common spacing patterns used in Objective-C.
>
>
> 2) When I call an Objective-C method, I'd like it to automatically  
> align
> parameters by the colon.  For example, I'd like it to be smart  
> enough to
> reformat:
>
> foo = [someObject foo:bar baz:quux];
>
> into...
>
> foo = [obj foo:bar
>            baz:quux];
>
> I figure this one can be done pretty easily w/ a TM command, but  
> I'm more
> wondering if anyone's already written it.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
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