On Friday 27 October 2006 6:32 pm, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 28. Oct 2006, at 01:00, Scott Granneman wrote:
[...] So, since I can't use Apple-I, I now have 2 questions:
- Is anyone else having this problem?
- Short of removing TextMate (which I have done, but I can, of
course, reinstall it), is there a solution to this problem?
Here is a previous thread about it: http://lists.macromates.com/ pipermail/textmate/2006-June/011293.html
The only solution is to edit TextMate’s info.plist (see my reply in the thread for what goes on -- IMO it really is a system shortcoming).
Cool. I'll try that.
I noticed in your response on that thread that you said only 3 people had complained. I wonder how many of those folks were Unix users, like me. The 1st thing I did with my new MBP was install DarwinPorts & start installing all my Linux apps, like kmail & others. Needless to say, TextMate completely breaks ALL of those apps, since it takes over the file association for files without extensions, which, as a Unix guy yourself, I'm sure you know are widely used in the *nix world. I can't double click on those files to open them, I can't use the CLI; I'm forced to open X11, add the apps to the Applications list, & then use that. Blech.
So, some sort of solution that doesn't involve editing plist files would be really nice. I notice that the "other Mac editor which shall not be named here" doesn't have this problem, which may or may not inspire a change on the part of TextMate. :) Especially since TextMate is much more "comfortable" for a *nix guy like myself (although vim still rules!). :)
Scott