Consider distributing through TextMate bundles

[jeremydouglass]

...this would make it automatically installable through the TextMate > Preferences > Bundles panel.

Thanks for developing and sharing this!

[ephread]

Hey @jeremydouglass, good idea! I have no idea how to publish them, though. I tried to find that information, but my search proved fruitless. Do you know how it's done?

[jeremydouglass]

Good point.

It used to be through SVN, but I believe (but am not certain) that what currently happens is that the textmate github account forks a repo containing a tmbundle, and that these get served to the TextMate > Preferences > Bundles installer. You can see its forked repos here:

https://github.com/textmate?q=tmbundle&type=&language=

...and the names and last commit dates line up with dates listed in the bundles installer.

To publish, you might need to reach out to @textmate -- possibly through the https://macromates.com/support support contact channels -- and say "please include my bundle!" which then gets forked. To update, you would commit more changes and then ask textmate to pull its fork up to date... or so I suspect (but don't know)

You are right, I can't find recent documentation. That said, 15 bundles were updated in the last year, so there is activity there.

[ephread]

Interesting, thanks a lot for the rundown @jeremydouglass!

Since it's not an automated process, I'd be inclined to wait a bit until all the bugs have been ironed out in the grammar. Plus, I looked at the expected structure and it would definitely require hosting the grammar in another repo.

I'll mark this issue as enhancement and keep you posted. 🙂

[jeremydouglass]

Thank you @ephread -- if you want to post any of those bugs as GitHub issues than I am happy to try to test or try fixes if I can -- I use TextMate every day.

[ephread]

No worries, thanks for help!

I know of a few issues, and I'm still writing some tests cases, but at the moment what I need is some real-world testing. If you have an ink project, big or small and you're willing to spend some time doing visual inspection of the highlighting, that would be awesome!

[jeremydouglass]

Sure -- I have some real-world projects on-hand. I'm not sure how completely they use the entire .ink feature set, so there are surely cases that they would miss, but happy to take a look.

[ephread]

Awesome, feel free to open an issue if you find something funny. I created a new issue template to make things easier.

Thanks again for giving me a hand, it's much, much appreciated!