MT Configuration Language Module for BBEdit 8

Tuesday, 7 September 2004

Here’s another codeless language module for BBEdit 8, for Movable Type configuration files (‘mt.cfg’). It provides syntax coloring for comments and MT directive keywords; by default, it claims any file whose name ends with ‘mt.cfg’.

Download link and installation instructions (cinchy) at the module’s project page.

The Movable Type user manual has a section on Configuration Settings; this module supports all the directive keywords listed there, plus the following six which aren’t documented, but which I found in the default ‘mt.cfg’ file for MT 3.11:

• AdminScript
• TypeKeyVersion
• ObjectDriver
• Database
• DBUser
• DBHost

Update

Phil Ringnalda emailed to point out that the canonical list of supported MT configuration directives is in the /mt/lib/MT/ConfigMgr.pm source file. From there, I slurped out 25 additional keywords:

• AltTemplatePath
• AtomApp
• CSSPath
• DBPassword
• DBPort
• DBSocket
• DebugEmailAddress
• DefaultLanguage
• DynamicComments
• IdentityURL
• IgnoreISOTimezones
• NewsboxURL
• NoPlacementCache
• NoPublishMeansDraft
• OneDayMaxPings
• OneHourMaxPings
• PluginPath
• SearchSortOrder
• Serializer
• SignOffURL
• SignOnURL
• TechnoratiPingURL
• TimeOffset
• TransparentProxyIPs
• Type

(Note to Six Apart: It’d be nice to have these documented.)