

The winner is the scope selector which (in order of precedence): If more than one scope selector matches the current scope then they are ranked according to how “good” a match they each are. For example to match both strings and comments the scope selector would be: string, comment. When we want something to match several distinct scopes, we can group scope selectors with the comma operator.
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There are situations where we want to match a subset of a document but exclude particular subsets of this subset.įor example in Ruby it is possible to embed code in strings using #." So if we want to target all strings in PHP, we can use source.php string, or we can use text.html source.php to target PHP embedded in HTML.

In the scope selector we specify element names as a space separated list to indicate that each element should be present in the scope (and in the same order). The direct parent of the string is and is an ancestor. The picture below shows the scope for the string as a tool tip (via ⌃⇧P). Descendant SelectorsĪs with CSS, it is possible to use the context of an element in the scope selector. Likewise if we specify string.quoted it will match single, double and triple quoted strings.Īn empty scope selector will match all scopes but with the lowest possible rank (see ranking matches later). So if we specify string as our scope selector it will also match all quoted strings. For example a double-quoted string in C will get assigned as its scope name (see naming conventions for more info).Ī scope selector in its simplest form is an element name to match, but it only needs to specify a prefix of the actual element name. This name should be dot separated with each additional part specializing the kind of element matched. In TextMate the language grammars will match these elements and assign a name to each. A prose document may contain headings, paragraphs, bullet lists, emphasized text where source code will often contain strings, comments, keywords, storage types etc. Generally a document consists of many different elements. In the latter case they are used to style elements of a document and in the former case to adjust various aspects of editing etc. Scope selectors are also used with preference items and themes. The advantage of this is that it allows a tab trigger like for to be re-used in different languages and works smoothly for mixed documents like HTML which can have embedded CSS, PHP, Ruby and JavaScript. This allows the activation method of a bundle item to be limited to contexts like “inside a comment” or “in an HTML document”. current context) and the outcome is either a match or a non-match (see also: ranking matches further down). Thanks to Jacob Rus for his ideas and some of the themes provided here.A scope selector is a pattern much like a CSS selector which is matched against the scope of the caret (i.e. It’s a little PHP thingy and some XHR to load the source. The idea is to use this on your site for pasting code or as a general pastebin for the IRC channel. You can choose a small number of Code snippets and Themes right now and just play with it a little.

Using the fantastic commands from Brad Choate to generate CSS from TextMate theme and convert documents to HTML files, this nifty little thing let’s you view code how it would look in TextMate. Proof of Concept interface of a theme chooser and coder styler for TextMate. Thu Oct 13 16:48: Code Styler (Unfinished Concept) Markdown2BookĬompiling a Documentation project made of several Markdown files to HTML.Ī colorful and high contrast theme inspired by Twilight.Īvailable via the TextMate WiKi or here for direct download. It is included in the standard TextMate distribution and let’s you show TODO & FIXME items in your project. I’m the maintainer of the TODO List Bundle. The Basics Tutorial shows off the great features of TextMate and gives you a good start at understanding the concept & the guts of the Editor as well as a good idea of how you can enhance it and contribute yourself. The Setup Tutorial tells you about the places to tune and tweak the look and features of TextMate. Having discovered TextMate in early 2005 on the search for a good text editor for OSX, I almost instantly fell in love with it.
