[TxMt] Re: Open Terminal

On 4/21/08 8:36 AM, in article 0F70886B-FCF9-4318-A398-9D5CBA91F0B0@macromates.com, "Allan Odgaard" throw-away-2@macromates.com wrote:

On 17 Apr 2008, at 02:52, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

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Is there a way to modify the Open Terminal command so that it uses tabs with Terminal.app? I have been trying to do this but my applescript-fu is weak. :/

I see there is plenty of support for this in the scripting dictionary, but I also don¹t get AppleScript.

I tried first:

 tell app "Terminal" to return tabs of first window

This worked fine, so then I tried:

 tell app "Terminal" to make new tab in first window

That gave me:

 Terminal got an error: Can¹t make or move that element into that

container. (-10024)

And then I gave up :)

Giving up is correct behavior! :))) The whole frustration with AppleScript is that you have no way of knowing whether a feature is implemented ("Is it possible to script the Terminal to make tabs in a window?") and, if so, what the syntax is for making it happen.

I believe the matter at hand (unless I've misunderstood - I haven't really been following along) has been pretty well discussed here:

http://onrails.org/articles/2007/11/28/scripting-the-leopard-terminal

m.