[TxMt] Feature Idea: Selectable TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY

[Allan Odgaard]

On 26 Apr 2008, at 04:54, Luke Daley wrote:

> I would like to be able to active a directory withtin the project to  
> be the TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY until deactivated or another directory  
> activated.
>
> Use case: With maven it's common to have a master project with lots  
> of modules, sometimes you want to target a command to a particular  
> sub module, not the master module which is the TM project.
>
> You could argue that the commands should be smart about using the  
> project drawer selection, but IMO this can be confusing when dealing  
> with multiple selections.

Well, explicitly setting a “designated project folder” will be an  
option in the future (seeing how TM moves to a file browser instead of  
a jailed project folder), but I think that commands should not rely on  
users to change this, to have the commands work on a subset.

IMO letting commands work with the variables like this, for “what to  
process”, makes the most sense:

     TM_SELECTED_FILES
     TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY
     TM_FILEPATH
     TM_DIRECTORY

I do feel that lack of an abstraction for “what to work on” has caused  
bundles to use varying heuristics for this, which is bad, but I am not  
sure it makes sense to introduce an abstraction with so few variables,  
also because sometimes we do want to make an exception to the above  
precedence order.