While the File -> Open... dialogue has a button to show hidden files, the File -> Save seems to have no obvious way to save a file to a hidden directory.
I was creating an environment.plist file to save in ~/.MacOSX --- my immediate work around was to save the file to the Desktop and use Finder to move the file to .MacOSX --- I have set Finder to show all files using either the defaults command or TinkerTool.
A search of the mailing list indicates that Cmd-Shift-G opens a sub dialogue box to the File -> Save dialogue that allows you to type the name of the directory directly but that would seem hard to discover. Is there a preference in Textmate that modifies the File -> Save dialogue to show hidden files ?
Phil Molyneux
i'm doing that from terminal:
$ touch ~/.MacOSX/.plist $ ^touch^mate
it works fine but i'm extrimely rare need to write to/open from hidden folders so if you need to do it often - yep, option in Save dialog would be good.
On Dec 28, 2007 5:40 PM, Phil Molyneux molyneux@kingston.ac.uk wrote:
While the File -> Open... dialogue has a button to show hidden files, the File -> Save seems to have no obvious way to save a file to a hidden directory.
I was creating an environment.plist file to save in ~/.MacOSX --- my immediate work around was to save the file to the Desktop and use Finder to move the file to .MacOSX --- I have set Finder to show all files using either the defaults command or TinkerTool.
A search of the mailing list indicates that Cmd-Shift-G opens a sub dialogue box to the File -> Save dialogue that allows you to type the name of the directory directly but that would seem hard to discover. Is there a preference in Textmate that modifies the File -> Save dialogue to show hidden files ?
Phil Molyneux
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On Dec 28, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Phil Molyneux wrote:
While the File -> Open... dialogue has a button to show hidden files, the File -> Save seems to have no obvious way to save a file to a hidden directory.
I was creating an environment.plist file to save in ~/.MacOSX --- my immediate work around was to save the file to the Desktop and use Finder to move the file to .MacOSX --- I have set Finder to show all files using either the defaults command or TinkerTool.
It would leave your Desktop less cluttered if you simply opened that specific folder using the Finder's "Go to Folder" command. Then at least just that window will be open on your Desktop.
I thought maybe I could drag the proxy of that window to the Desktop as an alias, but... hah hah! It isn't visible. :)
A search of the mailing list indicates that Cmd-Shift-G opens a sub dialogue box to the File -> Save dialogue that allows you to type the name of the directory directly but that would seem hard to discover. Is there a preference in Textmate that modifies the File -
Save dialogue to show hidden files ?
Also agreed: that would be useful.
Phil Molyneux
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