[TxMt] a shell mode for TextMate?

[Pete Siemsen]

Allan,

Thanks!  I downloaded ThisService and used it to define my own  
service, a Perl script that translates IP addresses.  Works in  
Terminal, but the output went right into the Terminal instead of  
appearing as a tooltip.  So I tried PerlTk to open a small text  
window to display the result, but PerlTk requires that X11 be  
running.  So I rewrote it in Ruby and used Tk in Ruby.  It works!

My only gripe is that that the window opens somewhere on the screen  
other than next to the cursor.  I realize that I'm far afield from  
TextMate here, but can you suggest another approach that would open a  
tooltip window next to the cursor, as TextMate does?

-- Pete



On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 31. Jul 2007, at 00:02, Pete Siemsen wrote:
>
>> [...] I can place the caret in an IP address, autonomous system  
>> number or VLAN number, hit the "help" key, and TextMate looks up  
>> and displays a tooltip window that tells me what I'm looking at  
>> [...] I'd like to have the same functionality when I'm logged into  
>> a device interactively.
>
> Not as convenient as customizing TextMate, but OS X has “services”  
> which are actions you can run on the selection in basically every  
> application. ThisService [1] is a way to write such services in a  
> scripting language. So in practice you might be able to write a  
> service for this IP address look-up which can be used in Terminal.
>
> [1]: http://wafflesoftware.net/thisservice/

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