Re: [TxMt] How to open Textmate from external program with specific caret position?

At 6:40 AM +0100 1/29/05, Allan Odgaard wrote:

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[...] I want it to open in TextMate, place the caret on a specific line and scroll down to that line, just like for example xcode does when double clicking in the error list. Is there some way to accomplish this (preferably from Cocoa)?

Xcode is using a subset of Metro Works external editor API which TextMate supports: http://codingmonkeys.de/techpubs/externaleditor/pbxexternaleditor.html

Basically you need to send it an 'odoc' apple event with an extra keyAEPosition parameter.

An example of sending the event from Cocoa (but w/o this extra parameter) can be found here: http://gusmueller.com/odb/

Is there some standard way to send these kinds of events from the shell?

- Eric