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Note that the documentation is a bit outdated as it hasn’t been touched since the first public alpha — updated documentation will appear when closer to final release, in the meantime interested parties should watch the release notes, wiki, and mailing list. Closes #822.
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title: File and Folder Targeted Settings
Properties
For many settings TextMate will look for a .tm_properties file in the current folder and in any parent folders (up to the user’s home folder).
These are simple setting = value listings where the value is a format string in which other variables can be referenced.
If the setting name is uppercase it will be available as an environment variable (for commands and snippets).
For example to setup the basic stuff one could have ~/.tm_properties with these values:
# Settings
theme = "71D40D9D-AE48-11D9-920A-000D93589AF6"
fontName = "Menlo"
fontSize = 13
fileBrowserGlob = "{*,.tm_properties,.htaccess}"
# Variables
PATH = "$PATH:$HOME/bin"
TM_GIT = "/opt/local/bin/git"
It is possible to target only files matching a given glob, for example:
[ *.txt ]
softWrap = true
[ .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG ]
softWrap = true
spellChecking = true
spellingLanguage = 'en'
[ "/usr/include/{**/,}*" ]
tabSize = 8
A magic value of attr.untitled is used for untitled files. This allows setting the file type for these, e.g.:
[ attr.untitled ]
fileType = 'source.c++'
The normal TM variables are available when expanding the format strings (values). In addition a CWD variable is available which represents the folder from which the .tm_properties file is read. This is necessary to set the project directory, for example I have ~/Source/Avian/.tm_properties with these settings:
projectDirectory = "$CWD"
windowTitle = "$TM_DISPLAYNAME — Avian"
fileChooserGlob = "{{src,Shared/include}/**/*.{cc,mm,h},target{,s},Makefile{,.*},.tm_properties}"
The first setting effectively sets TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY to ~/Source/Avian. In ~/Source/Avian/Applications I have a (variable) setting like this:
TM_MAKE_TARGET = '${TM_DIRECTORY/^.*\/Applications\/([^\/]+)(\/.*)?$/$1\/run/}'
What this does is set the make target based on the current directory. So if I am editing ~/Source/Avian/Applications/mate/src/main.cc ⌘B will make mate/run whereas if I am in ~/Source/Avian/Applications/Avian/src/main.cc it will make Avian/run.
Grammar
The grammar used to parse the .tm_properties files are as below. Whitespace (in the form of spaces or tabs) is allowed between elements.
file: ( «line» )*
line: ( «comment» | ( «section» | «assignment» )? ( «comment» )? ) ( '\n' | EOF )
section: '[' «name» ( ";" «name» )* ']'
name: ( /[^\] \t\n]/ | /\\[\] \t\n\\]/ )+
assignment: «key» '=' «value»
key: ( /[^= \t\n]/ | /\\[= \t\n\\]/ )+
value: ( «single_string» | «double_string» | «bare_string» )
single_string: "'" ( /[^']/ | /\\['\\]/ )* "'"
double_string: '"' ( /[^"]/ | /\\["\\]/ )* '"'
bare_string: ( /[^ \t\n]/ | /\\[ \t\n\\]/ )+
comment: '#' ( /[^\n]/ )*