[TxMt] Site Manager Window

jeff newman bangersandmash at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 21:45:59 UTC 2007


I'm new to TextMate so please forgive me if I'm totally wrong, but
would the functionality that is activated when you click on File>New
Project cover what is being asked for?

j.

On 1/17/07, Michael Gregoire <mgee at gwi.net> wrote:
> 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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