[TxMt] Re: does .tm_properties actually work?

[Baldwin, Dave]

Looks like a book writing opportunity!  I haven¹t seen anything to suggest
³TextMate Power Editing for the Mac² by James Edward Gray II will be
updated.

Dave.


On 16/12/2013 19:38, "Matt Neuburg" <matt at tidbits.com> wrote:

>Very helpful, thank you! - A significant issue here is that there is no
>definitive current documentation about this, and the Internet is now
>filled with false information giving the very clear impression that what
>I tried should have worked. m.
>
>On Dec 13, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On 14 Dec 2013, at 1:53, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>> 
>>> [Š] as a test I created this: [Š]
>>> 
>>> I figured if I open an asciidoc file I should be able to tell if it's
>>>suddenly Georgia 18. I don't actually *want* that setting, I just want
>>>to see that .tm_properties is functioning! But it isn't. I've put this
>>>file in my home folder, in the project containing folder, all over the
>>>place. But nothing is changing. m.
>> 
>> A current limitation is that the settings: theme, fontName, fontSize,
>>and showInvisibles can only be set globally (that is, in
>>~/.tm_properties and not targeting a path/scope). We do however
>>recommend all four things to be set via the UI (not ~/.tm_properties).
>> 
>> Additionally, when you change certain settings via the UI (like tab
>>size) they are stored for the current file scope (e.g. text.asciidoc) in
>>~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Global.tmProperties and when
>>settings are collected, scoped settings rank higher than more local file
>>name settings (or more local less specific scoped settings).
>> 
>> What this means is that in your local settings you should use [
>>text.asciidoc ] instead of [ *.asciidoc ] to ensure that less local
>>(learned) settings for the ³text.asciidoc² scope are not eclipsing your
>>extension-based settings (and it then also works for untitled files).
>> 
>> I have been meaning to look into how scoped and globbed settings are
>>ranked so that a local extension match would trump a less local scope
>>match, since this is what most users expect / are not aware of the
>>learned scoped settings.
>> 
>
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