[TxMt] Site Manager Window

[Michael Gregoire]

A site manager does two things.

It keeps track of files. Finder does this.
It grabs files from a server. An FTP can do this.

You cross the line into WYSIWYG territory when you add hand-holding  
functionality like this.

My opinion.

Peace
Mike

On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> "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
>>
>> 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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