How does mate work if TM2 is moved/renamed? Is it finding the location of the app in a plist somewhere?
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Allan Odgaard mailinglist@textmate.orgwrote:
On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Neil kngspook@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a reason TextMate copies mate into the user's $PATH instead of
just making a symlink to the command inside the Application's resources?
The original reason was that mate was copied from the bundle support folder, which I didn’t feel was a good destination for a symlink.
But another reason is to have ‘mate’ still work if user rename or move TextMate.app.
Didn’t happen a lot with 1.x (which uses a symlink) but it did happen, and it seemed like a lot of users rename the alphas to “TextMate 2”.
TextMate 2 will keep the installed ‘mate’ executable up-to-date. So nothing is really gained by the symlink (other than maybe satisfying an aesthetic preference).
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