[TxMt] Site Manager Window

[Greg Smith]

"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."

How does a simple site manager window make it cross the line into  
WYSIWYG? I'm missing that part. skEdit has a simple list of defined  
working project directories that you choose from on start up...

G


On Jan 17, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Todd Ditchendorf wrote:

> 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
>
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> 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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