A TextMate bundle for editing files used with Bunch.app on macOS.
Bunch is a Mac automation app that processes plain text files with the extension
.bunch. These Bunch files have their own "language", which tells Bunch what do
do.
TextMate is a text editor for macOS. You can add additional capabilities to it by installing bundles. This project is a bundle for TextMate to make it easier to edit Bunch files.
This bundle includes:
- Syntax highlighting for Bunch files and snippets
- Completions for Bunch commands
- Completion for any installed application name
- Completion for frontmatter keys
- If you haven't already installed TextMate, download and install it
- Download
Bunch.tmbundle.zipfrom the latest release on github - Double-click
Bunch.tmbundle.zipto unzip the file - Double-click
Bunch.tmbundleto install the bundle in TextMate
TextMate won't automatically keep this bundle updated for you. Update the bundle by following the installation steps. Watch the Bunch.tmbundle repository on github to be notified of new releases.
Using the builtin Cobalt theme:
Using the builtin Dawn theme:
The syntax highlighting in this bundle has a few warts, ie stuff that isn't ideal. If I was smarter, I could probably figure out how to fix or work around all of these. But for now, they remain in a less than ideal state.
- The Bunch documentation says that variable placeholders work inside of embedded shell scripts and applescripts. It would be great if I could syntax highlight those variable placeholders, and also include the shell syntax highlighting. I can only figure out how to do one or the other. So it highlights shell syntax.
Reference material for customizing and creating bundles:
- TextMate Language Grammars
- Regex Reference
- Bunch File Syntax Reference
- TextMate Bundle Lessons Learned
This repo also includes a SyntaxDemo.bunch file which shows all the syntax
variations allowed in a real bunch file. The file helps with testing and
validating modifications to the syntax highlighting included in this bundle.