[TxMt] Site Manager Window

[Todd Ditchendorf]

perhaps this is an opportunity for a plugin? Does anyone have a sense  
of whether a site management palette would be a highly desired  
addition to TextMate? Would an attempt to make textmate compete with  
apps like Dreamweaver make sense? We all know textmate's the better  
text editor... if you could install a plugin to add decent site  
management features...

I wonder if this is a bit of a slippery slope... WYSIWYG HTML editing  
would almost certainly be desired by the web devs who would be  
looking for site management features. This could be done with a TM  
plugin... something akin to SandVox, perhaps using WebKit's  
contentEditable features. But experience from TeXMLMate tells me it  
would be a bit risky as you'd need to do quite a bit of peeking under  
the OakTextView (TextMate's custom TextView)'s skirt to sync the  
WYSIWYG editing changes back to the textmate main editor window. The  
plugin would likely be quite brittle in the face of TM updates.

This is a reason I hope Allan will find time to add a more complete  
TM Plugin api... with more hooks that will be stable in future  
releases... I'm sure Allan realizes this is needed... considering  
there's been so few plugins to this point, he prolly figures he has  
more important priorities.

If you would be interested in these features speak up... it would be  
a big job, but it might be a fun plugin project to tackle.

Todd Ditchendorf

Scandalous Software - Mac XML Developer Tools
http://scan.dalo.us



On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback. I'm not concerned with it's visual preview  
> of HTML files. skEdit is also a text editor (also has a preview  
> function for HTML files, for what it's worth), but includes a very  
> nice and very simple site manager window. That's what I was getting  
> at.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
>
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Kai Janson (kaijanson@) wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> TextMate is a text editor as the name implies but ... it has a  
>> rudimentary preview function for HTML files ... not too shabby...
>>
>> --Kai
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Does TextMate have a Site Manager window, like Dreamweaver or  
>>> skEdit for one-point access to everything?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Greg
>>>
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