Hello everybody,
First, the caveats and the waffling: I'm new to TextMate, I'm not a programmer, I hope I'm not missing something obvious, I've never posted to a mailing list before.
There, now that's out of the way, here's my problem:
I process a lot of texts for Project Gutenberg. PG has a homemade C program (GutCheck -- http://gutcheck.sourceforge.net) which checks for various features in the text to make sure it's in good shape for posting to PG. I normally run it from Terminal and thought I could easily make a Command to do it from TextMate.
I made my command, and as long as I don't add any arguments, I get back the "usage" information for GutCheck. So far, so good.
However, when I put in my file name (e.g. gutcheck "$TM_FILEPATH"), I don't get anything other than a new empty untitled document and short-lived beach-ball. If I make the command pipe into another (specific) document (e.g. gutcheck "$TM_FILEPATH" > mynewfile.out), I get one line of response from gutcheck, and then the rest of the information is stored in the other document. I then have to open it separately; so it's not much different from running the command in Terminal which is what I'm trying to avoid.
I thought it had something to do with GutCheck reporting to stderr instead of stdout, but there's a switch available to turn that off. It didn't make any difference.
The _weird_ thing though, is that when I have in my command "Output: Show as HTML" (instead of Create New Document), everything is there in the HTML window (but unreadable because there are no line breaks).
What am I missing or doing incorrectly?
Ah, another clue, perhaps: when I run the command on a short file (like this message), it works as I expect (Command: gutcheck "$TM_FILEPATH" Output: Create New Document). But few ebooks are 17 lines long. How do I make it work for real texts (600 to 6000 or more lines)?
Thanks in advance for any advice, Barbara