Category: Coldfusion, FarCry, Mac, Windows, cfeclipse
I’ve been using Textmate a lot more for my coding endeavours as of late (starting about 3 days ago to be precise), and I’ve been missing the code completion for tags and functions in FarCry.
To scratch my itch, I threw together a little process to create Textmate Bundles from CFEclipse dictionaries, and generated one for FarCry 5.1.
It works pretty well. Here is a movie of the FarCry Textmate bundle in action.
The thing about the generator is it can be used to move any CFEclipse dictionary to Textmate. I was going to do one for the base of Coldfusion 8, but, luckly, there is already a generic Coldfusion textmate plugin - and only noobs reinvent the wheel or just overlook the hard work of others eh?
However, if you need snippets for one of the older Coldfusion engines or for Railo or BlueDragon you can pretty easily tweak the code and move it to Textmate.
To download the FarCry Textmate plugin (which is beta) click-a here.
If you want to play with the code, or move your own cfe dictionary to textmate you can get the source code on github.
Textmate is Mac OS X only, but the E-editor is a Windows clone and it reads Textmate bundles out-of-the-box.
Nice Rob, I haven’t used TextMate…Smultron is about as far as I’ve gotten for text editors on the Mac
Wow - cool stuff indeed. Thanks for putting this out Rob.