[TxMt] How can TextMate be so popular???

[Brad Choate]

What's throwing off the folding is the comment placed in the first  
column. TextMate doesn't care about the presence or absence of that  
comma when it looks for folds. It has patterns to match the start of  
a fold and the end of a fold. It uses these patterns and indention  
level to determine where fold points are and how to pair them. It  
doesn't parse what is in-between.

If the user had pressed cmd+/ while on the "bar: function ( x ) {"  
line, it would have added the comment characters after the leading  
whitespace instead of the front of the line. Like this:

function foo () {
    return {
      // bar: function ( x ) {
      bar: function ( x, y ) {
        return x + y;
      },
    };
}

The function will fold properly when written that way, although TM  
still sees the commented line as a fold point, something that should  
probably be fixed.

-Brad


On Mar 6, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:

> Andy,
>
> It should be:
>
>> function foo () {
>> return {
>> //     bar: function ( x ) {
>>    bar: function ( x, y ) {
>>      return x + y;
>>    }
>> };
>> }
>
> NOT
>
>> function foo () {
>> return {
>> //     bar: function ( x ) {
>>    bar: function ( x, y ) {
>>      return x + y;
>>    },       <-- comma indicates that this key/value pair should be  
>> followed by at least one more in this object
>> };
>> }
>
> Your browser may have parsed it, I dunno. I didn't try it. But with  
> an editor that relies on regular expressions to match syntax,  
> something as small as this would probably throw it off.
>
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>
>> On 6 Mar 2007, at 21:21, Michael Jackson wrote:
>>> Ha ha...now I KNOW you're an idiot. First, learn javascript. Your  
>>> syntax is WRONG.
>>
>> Actually his syntax is just fine. What did you think was wrong  
>> with it?
>>
>> [18:51] andy $ js
>> js>
>> js> function foo () {
>> return {
>> //     bar: function ( x ) {
>>    bar: function ( x, y ) {
>>      return x + y;
>>    },
>> };
>> }
>> js> x = foo()
>> [object Object]
>> js> x.bar(1, 2)
>> 3
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
>>
>>
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