On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 8:50 AM jason <jgavris@gmail.com> wrote:
This actually sounds exactly like the problem I was trying to address with this PR. I'm glad someone else is experiencing it! 

https://github.com/textmate/textmate/pull/1405

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Daniel Vollmer <lists@maven.de> wrote:
Hello list,

when opening (existing) files from Terminal.app using the `mate` command, it occasionally (but not always) takes a fairly long time (more than 5secs) to open the file in TextMate. TM in all these instances is already running, but doesn't necessarily have any open windows.
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I have also encountered this.  But it is very rare.  I can recall less than 5 times total and I use mate from the command line a lot.  For the record I use iTerm rather than terminal, but I don't think that is relevant.