On 6 Feb 2014, at 23:51, Tony Manhollan wrote:
[…] It seems to me that TextMate is only listening on IPv6 now […]
Yes, sorry, I think I confused things here.
You are right that the help document is wrong in that the help document says “127.0.0.1” when it should say “localhost”. We updated the blog post and documentation on GitHub, and I thought it was the update you referred to (as I had forgotten about the copy of the blog post embedded in TextMate.app). I have now updated the embedded document as well.
So just to emphasize, localhost *is* the correct value to use (despite my previous reply) and the reason is that TextMate (now) only listens on IPv6 (we can’t listen on IPv4 without creating an extra socket observer, which I deemed not worth it).
And thanks for clarifying Brian’s issue, I never realized what the exact problem was, but yes, you’re right, he had disabled IPv6 so SSH was unable to locally connect to TextMate (and forward the connection).