[TxMt] Re: Block Caret for writers (not only for LaTeX)

[Novitzky Peter]

Hi Ronald,

Many thanks for your input, you seem to be much more familiar with the code than I am. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to use XCode and compile sources. 

Any possibility of introducing this in the next version of TM2 

a) either as a switch in the TM2 Preferences, 
b) or as setting in terminal through "defaults write ..." command?

Kind regards,

Peter


On 18 Jul 2015, at 16:59 pm, Ronald Wampler <rdwampler at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Novitzky Peter <pnovitzky at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From all the possible options changing the vertical line bar to block caret is still the simplest and most straightforward way.
>> 
>> All I found, if somebody finds it helpful, is this page at the Apple Developer site:
>> 
>> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSTextView_Class/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSTextView/drawInsertionPointInRect:color:turnedOn:
>> 
>> As much as I understand it, the change should be called with the  - (void)drawInsertionPointInRect:(NSRect)aRect with all its options. Just in case somebody finds this helpful for the commit...
>> 
> For various reasons, TextMate uses a custom text view, which is not a
> subclass of NSTextView, so the above solution is not applicable. The
> relevant part of the code base to change the rendering of the caret is
> here:
> 
> https://github.com/textmate/textmate/blob/master/Frameworks/layout/src/layout.cc#L307
> 
> If you are comfortable downloading the source and compiling it, you
> can change the above line to something like:
> 
> res.push_back(OakRectMake(r1.origin.x, r1.origin.y,
> _metrics->column_width(), r1.size.height));
> 
> I have not fully test it, so I don't know if it's the ideal solution.
> Also, you might want to change the caret color to be somewhat
> transparent in whatever theme you are using. To get it upstream, it
> would have to be hidden and "themeable" in some way I imagine, which
> would be more involved.
> 
> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> On 18 Jul 2015, at 00:34 am, Graham Heath <graham.p.heath at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Would it be enough to increase the frequency of the blinking of the caret. Seems to me that a frenetically blinking cursor would be more easily seen.
>>> 
>>> Though TextMate doesn't respect the following system settings, maybe it should?
>>> defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOff -float 0.1
>>> defaults write -g NSTextInsertionPointBlinkPeriodOn -float 0.1
>>> 
>>> This comes from the following SuperUser post, which is actually about disabling the blinking, but seemed relevant any way.
>>> 
>>> http://superuser.com/questions/466660/how-to-disable-blinking-caret-when-editing-text-in-os-x
>>> 
>>> Also some of this issue could be helped by, yet another, request for the "highlight current line" feature.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Novitzky Peter <pnovitzky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So far I coloured the vertical bar caret with a contrast colour against the background, but even this is not ideal. Especially if the window loses focus...
>>> 
>>> Thanks though for the suggestions. I appreciate it a lot.
>>> 
>>> Patience is the art of hoping. ;)
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 17 Jul 2015, at 16:37 pm, Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 17 Jul 2015, at 10:47, Novitzky Peter wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for your advice for using the shortcuts. However, they are not really what is desirable here.
>>>> 
>>>> I know what you ultimately want. I don’t know if you’ll get it next week, or never.
>>>> 
>>>> I was just offering suggestions for things you can do today.
>>>> 
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