Comments on: TextMate on Leopard Command Line Tool Fix

By: Guðmundur Hreiðarsson

Guðmundur Hreiðarsson — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:02:51 +0000

Great – thanks! I ran into this problem when trying to invoke TM through a SSH tunnel to Tiger, so this apparently isn’t only causing problems on Leopard. But your method does the trick!

By: Fernando

Fernando — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:04:11 +0000

nice!
Thanks!

By: Acrobatic

Acrobatic — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:26:19 +0000

alias mate=’open -a TextMate.app’ worked great for me on a clean install of Leopard

By: Jeff McCune

Jeff McCune — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:59:11 +0000

Nate, Also, no matter what I do, I get errors running mate. even from /bin

% /bin/mate exclude
2008-01-23 18:58:26.224 mate[16002:10b] An uncaught exception was raised
2008-01-23 18:58:26.225 mate[16002:10b] *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (-1( or possibly larger)) beyond bounds (0)
2008-01-23 18:58:26.226 mate[16002:10b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '*** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (-1( or possibly larger)) beyond bounds (0)'
2008-01-23 18:58:26.227 mate[16002:10b] Stack: (
    2507817579,
    2416955547,
    2507817035,
    2507817098,
    2526203359,
    2525670584,
    9955,
    14255,
    9754,
    9525
)

By: Jeff McCune

Jeff McCune — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:54:41 +0000

Nate,

Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, I run TextMate out of /Users/mccune/Applications/TextMate.app which is a file vault protected home folder.

Creating a symbolic link into /bin wouldn’t work for other users, but I’ll consider installing TextMate.app into the system wide /Applications folder to get everything working.

Ideally, I’d be able to have a link in ~/bin/mate point to ~/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate

By: Nate Hatcher

Nate Hatcher — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:31:07 +0000

Hi Jeff,

The TextMate command line tool works fine for me on Leopard (10.5.1) if I tell TM to put the link in /bin. It didn’t work when I had TM put the link in /usr/local/bin.

All the best,

Nate

By: Jeff McCune

Jeff McCune — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:21:22 +0000

Tim Case,

I wrote this article because the “Terminal Usage” command doesn’t work properly in Leopard. The new security sandboxing prevents the “mate” command from communicating with TextMate.

The alias is a simple and robust solution. Why don’t you think it’s such a great fix? Admittedly, you lose the ability to wait for TextMate, with mate -w, if you’re doing a revision controlled commit or something…

Cheers,
Jeff

By: Tim Case

Tim Case — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:17:52 +0000

This isn’t such a great fix. Remove the alias, then open up textmate go to Help -> Terminal Usage. See if that doesn’t fix it better…

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:58:33 +0000

Brilliant, thank you!