https://github.com/tyrone-sudeium/st3-binaryplist
Automatically converts binary property lists to XML when opened and writes them back out to binary when saved.
https://github.com/tyrone-sudeium/st3-binaryplist
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Automatically converts binary property lists to XML when opened and writes them back out to binary when saved.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/tyrone-sudeium/st3-binaryplist
- Owner: tyrone-sudeium
- Created: 2013-12-13T00:17:20.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-03T03:45:37.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-20T23:33:50.872Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: plist, sublime-text-3
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 35.2 KB
- Stars: 54
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 5
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
BinaryPlist
===========
This is my take at a plist plugin for Sublime Text 3 that should make working
with plists feel a lot more first-class. It provides:
* Automatic conversion of binary plist to XML. You can then edit the XML file
in Sublime and it will automatically convert back to binary when you save.
* Cross platform support. The solution is pure python. No calls to the
command line, no foreign-function shenanigans, just 100% python goodness.
* Plist syntax highlighting from [TextMate][1].
The python plist support is taken from the [Python 3.4 standard library][2],
with a few modifications to support running in the Python 3.3 that ships with
Sublime Text 3. This library therefore has a heavy dependency on Python 3.x
which is why it'll probably never work with Sublime Text 2. Seriously, just
use Sublime Text 3+, it's awesome.
Why?
=========
[Sublime Text][3] is by far my favourite text editor. It has a fantastic
package manager in [Package Control][4] which allows you to manage the
installation of plugins that extend the functionality of Sublime. Sublime
doesn't support binary plists out of the box, but a kind sir by the name of
[relikd][5] made a plugin that can convert to and from binary plist. I
believe this plugin improves on that one in a few key ways:
1. A more hands-off UX. The other plugin requires you to manually press some
arcane key combination to toggle between binary (useless) and XML (useful).
I can't imagine any situation where'd you _want_ to edit the binary in a
binary plist by hand, which is why this one just opens as binary by default.
2. This plugin uses a plist implementation entirely implemented in Python, which
means it works on any platform that Sublime Text works on. The other plugin
calls out to the `plutil` command line tool built into macOS which
unfortunately means it only works on Macs. I also believe a pure python
implementation will have less runtime overhead than spawning a `plutil`
process.
4. This plugin ships with a plist syntax definition. XML plists can of course
just use the built-in XML highlighter, but that isn't nearly as strict as
plists are, and it doesn't support the "old-style" plist format which you
sometimes still see.
[1]: https://github.com/textmate/property-list.tmbundle/tree/textmate-1.x
[2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.4.10/Lib/plistlib.py
[3]: https://www.sublimetext.com
[4]: https://packagecontrol.io/
[5]: https://github.com/relikd/Plist-Binary_sublime