#Textmate command line install

This will give the current line a slightly different background color, if the theme (See Fonts & Colors) supports it.

The Preferences is of course the first thing to customize TextMate. Remember: You can bring up this Dialog from the Help Menu, too. So to have a command with -wait as default, you can

Mate -|cat -n -w implied (read from stdin)ДЄn exception is made if the command is started as something which ends 'mate *.tex').Д«y default mate will not wait for the file to be closed If multiple files are given, a project is created consisting of theseДЇiles, -a is then default and -w will be ignored (e.g. n, -no-reactivation After edit with -w, do not re-activate the calling app. d, -change-dir Change TextMates working directory to that of the file. r, -recent Add file to Open Recent menu. l, -line Place caret on line after loading file. w, -wait Wait for file to be closed by TextMate. a, -async Do not wait for file to be closed by TextMate. Mate has the following options: moiraine:~ foobar$ mate -help This is a convenient way to open files or folders from the command line and editing them.

#Textmate command line install

If you are using the Shell ( /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) this lets you install a command line tool called mate which will invoke TextMate from the Shell. When starting TextMate the first time this dialog will greet you. If you can only think of the Ocean and Oysters when you hear вЂњShellвЂќ then you can safely skip this step and select вЂњDonвЂ™t CreateвЂќ. TextMate Setup Tutorial TextMate Setup Tutorial