[TxMt] Re: TM2 - where is the mate command?

Allan Odgaard mailinglist at textmate.org
Sun Dec 25 21:08:53 UTC 2011


On 25 Dec 2011, at 06:02, Rob McBroom wrote:

> On Dec 24, 2011, at 4:43 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 24 Dec 2011, at 04:53, Rob McBroom wrote:
>>> I had a symlink (referring to mate in TextMate 1.5) and TM2 refused to overwrite it […]
>> Do you remember if it gave an error (and if so, which)?
> 
> I’m pretty sure it was silent. I just noticed that the “light” continued to be red, so on the suspicion that it didn’t work, I checked in Terminal, saw that it was still pointing to the old location, removed it from there, and tried again.
> 
> I’m 96% sure that’s how it went. I can go through it again if you need 100%. :-)
> 
> FYI, the symlink was in `/usr/local/bin`. I own all of `/usr/local`. Now that I think about it, I didn’t happen to check ownership on the symlink, but if I own the directory, that shouldn’t matter anyway.

I would appreciate if you can try to reproduce the issue as I was unable to do so here (it warns me that a link exists in /usr/local/bin and asks for admin password if I select to replace it).



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