[TxMt] Re: text overlay

[Bob Henkel]

I won't go into details about these. All I doing is throwing out an ideas
nothing more. I do appreciate comments though.

The things I was listing in my mind would of been highly useful for code
review actives. I'm not talking about Bob and the guy on the other side of
the cube wall reviewing his code. I'm talking about 100+ developers working
on a system with any number of people reviewing the same code. There are
stand alone systems for this, this I know. What I wanted to do is find ways
of allowing this all from within textmate. Being that it already allows you
to type text and wash dishes I didn't think this was to far out there.

No harm in asking.

Bob


On 4/17/07, Jacob Rus <jrus at hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Bob Henkel wrote:
> > It would be handy if there was a overlay feature in textmate much like
> you
> > get in photo editing software. What would be really nice if there were X
> > layers and if you could choose to name each layer and hide and show a
> > layer.
>
> This sounds about 10x more complex than 99% of people need.  How about
> you just create a few themes which "show" or "hide" layers (scopes) by
> changing their colors to be more or less visible?
>
> > Also if each layer had a transparency setting it would be nice so you
> could
> > have 10 layers that combined would appear to be almost one
> document.  Maybe
> > you could combine 10 peoples comments on your file.
>
> Really not sure what you're getting at...
>
> > My second wish list item is meta data for a text file. That is I could
> tag
> > line 1 as having meta data of "this line is great". If a user adds more
> > text
> > to the document and line 1 is pushed down to line 10 that meta data
> should
> > stay with the original data it was tagged on.
>
> Why not just use a plain text format which has some support for such
> metadata?  For instance, most programming languages allow "comments".
>
> -Jacob
>
>
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