[TxMt] Re: showing preview of css colors

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2016-05-25 03:12, Carpii UK wrote:
> Thanks Allan,
>
> Looks interesting, I will have a play around with this when I can
> I was hoping I might be able to call out to ImageMagick to generate a
> suitable ICNS icon, but from what I can see it doesn't support ICNS
> forma, which is a shame.

I don't think ICNS is a requirement. The built-in icons, error and 
warning, use PDF, IIRC.

> - Do 'marks' persist in any way, in projects or maybe tm settings?
> Ie, if I was to pass a /tmp/some_temp_file.icns, would that cause an
> issue later if the /tmp file was later deleted and Tm relaunched?
>
> - I wonder how feasible it would be for TM to allow a new switch in the
> mark API, something like...
> "$TM_MATE" --set-mark-bg-color "#FF0000" --line 3
>
> This would let us set the background color of the gutter, irrespective
> of the theme
> And also allow it to be used independantly of the current monochrome
> marks feature.
>
> Just a thought anyway, not sure how easy it would be

Probably not that hard.

If mark icons are used for this I can see that this could cause 
conflicts with errors or warnings for something like a CSS preprocessor 
(Sass, LESS) or perhaps a CSS linter. I assume the mark icons for the 
color should be persistent, but, as far as I know, it's only possible to 
have one icon per line. If one runs a build command for Sass or LESS 
which use marks to report errors they would override the colors.

I think setting the background color as the Atom Pigments pulgin does 
would be pretty cool. Just make sure it's possible to turn off somehow. 
The Atom Pigments plugins has a couple of different ways to display the 
colors [1].

An additional alternative would be to have a tooltip showing the color 
on mouse hover. Or is it important that the color is always visible?

[1] https://github.com/abe33/atom-pigments#marker-type

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/Jacob Carlborg