[TxMt] Re: Compiling C/C++ using Textmate

[Alex Ross]

On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Marc Feldesman wrote:

> It returns an empty line.

Sorry that should have been:

ruby -e 'puts File.exists?(ENV["TM_SUPPORT_PATH"] + "/lib/tm/ 
executor.rb")'

If TM_SUPPORT_PATH is pointing correctly to your svn checkout of the  
Support directory, and that checkout is also up to date, this will  
return true.

> I've got 30 years of programming experience.  If I'm having this  
> much trouble after following the directions in 5.7 and especially  
> 5.7.4 to the letter, how do less experienced people deal with these  
> problems?
>
> Why doesn't Textmate simply set these preferences out of the box and  
> run without this much fiddling.   AquaEmacs works without anything  
> special.  SlickEdit works without anything special.  XCode works out  
> of the box.  Why is TextMate so fiddly?

TextMate also works out of the box, but you've elected to install  
prerelease code via svn.  Most people do not encounter these problems  
because they just use the bundles that are shipped with TextMate.

—Alex