[TxMt] [TM2] Very minor feature request - to highlight current line

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

Hi,

in TM 1.x it was possible to highlight the current line. In TM2 I can see a nice gutter effect which is feasible for almost all cases but I'm sometimes editing plain text tables with rather long lines and here it'd be nice to have a visual indicator for the current line to be able to read long lines better.

Thanks,
--Hans

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[Steve King]

On 2012-03-20 16:13, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
> in TM 1.x it was possible to highlight the current line. In TM2 I can see a nice gutter effect which is feasible for almost all cases but I'm sometimes editing plain text tables with rather long lines and here it'd be nice to have a visual indicator for the current line to be able to read long lines better.

Seconded. I miss this feature from TM1. I also miss the ability to
specify /italic text/ in the themes. I was kind of assuming both those
fell into the "not yet implemented" category. I hope that's the case
rather than them falling into the "not going to bother" category.

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[Jerry]

On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Steve King wrote:

> On 2012-03-20 16:13, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
>> in TM 1.x it was possible to highlight the current line. In TM2 I can see a nice gutter effect which is feasible for almost all cases but I'm sometimes editing plain text tables with rather long lines and here it'd be nice to have a visual indicator for the current line to be able to read long lines better.
>
> Seconded. I miss this feature from TM1. I also miss the ability to specify /italic text/ in the themes. I was kind of assuming both those fell into the "not yet implemented" category. I hope that's the case rather than them falling into the "not going to bother" category.

And bold, of course. Bold keywords are nice.
Jerry

[Allan Odgaard]

On 21/03/2012, at 06.18, Jerry wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Steve King wrote:
>

>> […] I also miss the ability to specify /italic text/ in the themes […]
> And bold, of course. […]

TM 2.0 uses CoreText which doesn’t synthesize bold and italic when the font has no such variant.

So you need to pick a font with a bold and italic variant for the theme styles to work. I have no plans of trying to synthesize these styles myself (not really feasible) and Apple seems content with not having CoreText do it (like the deprecated ATSUI did).

[Steve King]

On 2012-03-20 21:49, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> TM 2.0 uses CoreText which doesn’t synthesize bold and italic when the font has no such variant.
>
> So you need to pick a font with a bold and italic variant for the theme styles to work. I have no plans of trying to synthesize these styles myself (not really feasible) and Apple seems content with not having CoreText do it (like the deprecated ATSUI did).

Can't say I blame you, but... Ick. Okay, anyone have a version of
Andale Mono with bold and italic variants? Or have a program that will
synthesize such for me?

[Piero D\'Ancona]

I am also missing the current line highlight, that was
quite handy. The eyes can pick the right spot with much
less effort..

Piero

[Thomas Floeren]

On 21.03.2012, at 14:31, Steve King wrote:

> On 2012-03-20 21:49, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>> TM 2.0 uses CoreText which doesn’t synthesize bold and italic when the font has no such variant.
>>
>> So you need to pick a font with a bold and italic variant for the theme styles to work. I have no plans of trying to synthesize these styles myself (not really feasible) and Apple seems content with not having CoreText do it (like the deprecated ATSUI did).
>
> Can't say I blame you, but... Ick. Okay, anyone have a version of Andale Mono with bold and italic variants? Or have a program that will synthesize such for me?
>

No, no synthesizer, but here is a nice list of monospaced fonts: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/

OS X (since 10.6 IIRC) comes with Menlo, a very nice Vera clone, with good antialiasing

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Thomas

[Steve King]

On 2012-03-21 20:58, Thomas Floeren wrote:

No, no synthesizer, but here is a nice list of monospaced fonts: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/ OS X (since 10.6 IIRC) comes with Menlo, a very nice Vera clone, with good antialiasing

Menlo isn't bad, but I'm a huge fan of Andale Mono. It seems cleaner to me. Ah, well.

And what self-respecting "programming fonts" article can seriously recommend a font without a slashed zero? I mean, really. He says it's the only drawback of Droid Sans Mono, but talk about a show-stopper!

Sorry. If I seem opinionated about fonts it's only because I am. :-)

[Steve King]

On 2012-03-22 13:57, Erik Neumann wrote:

That article doesn't say which fonts have bold and italic variants.  Do any of the free fonts mentioned have bold/italic?  On my system I have 4 mono-spaced fonts;  only Courier and Courier New have bold/italic variants.  Andale Mono and Monoco are without variants.

I tried one or two, but no joy. They only had the "Regular" variation. But while looking I came across a reference to Liberation Mono, which is free and does have the bold, italic, and bold italic variants. It looks very similar to Menlo.

https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

[John Labovitz]

I've been using Deju Vu Mono for all my monospaced needs, including TextMate. It does have all the usual variants, and excellent Unicode support.

http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/

--John

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