[TxMt] tying external action to actions in Textmate

[Steve King]

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Cliff Pruitt wrote:

> :-)  Well, yeah I did read the _extensive_ documentation in the manual about 
> plugins (j/k) but I was just curious if someone that had gone through the 
> process had volunteered any "getting started" advice.  For example the code 
> browser plugin deals with the current document which means it must somehow 
> read the documents contents.  I know there are plenty of tools & ways to have 
> Cocoa tell you what's going on, but for a beginner that's getting in a little 
> in over my head at the moment.  Maybe plugins will have to wait until I am a 
> little further down the road with Cocoa.

Also, take a look at some of the other plugins on the Wiki page at 
<http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/Plugins>.  I didn't see any source code 
for CodeBrowser, but some of the others offer source.  TabMate, for 
instance, looks at the top line of the file for a magic string, then sets 
tab width and hard/soft tabs according to that string.  It has no UI, so 
there shouldn't be any Cocoa voodoo to deal with.  I poked at the source a 
little myself, but Objective-C just looks bizarre to me.  I decided to 
wait until TM2 before getting my hands dirty with it.

-- 
Steve King, <steve at narbat.com>