On May 23, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Brooks Seymore wrote:

Could this also be done through a Bundle Command, with the new document created and the timer launched by running the command?

B.

Yeah, you can trigger a Applescript when you run a bundle command or even include run it from the script used when creating a file from a template so creating a new file would start the timer, but then you wouldn't be able to log time if you were just editing existing files.

I haven't had time to look into it for myself, but does anyone else know if you can just use launchd to watch a TextMate related file for changes, say, the TextMates preferences for example?  If the file is modified you can assume you're working with TM & then start your timer?   I know launchd can monitor paths, but I don't know if TM alters its prefs file on disk when its running or just when it shuts down or what.  If so it'd maybe work to use launchd to watch the prefs file and run a script.  The script could even maybe use

defaults read com.macromates.textmate NSRecentDocumentRecords

to examine what documents were last opened / saved and mess with your timer accordingly, though you'd have to translate them from alias references (or whatever the heck the prefs file stores) to paths somehow.  Thats beyond me at the moment.

I'm just tossing out ideas...

- Cliff