On 28/5/2006, at 0:08, Oliver Taylor wrote:

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Sorry, should have been:

osascript 2>/dev/null \ -e 'tell app "Backdrop" to activate' \ -e 'tell app "MenuShade" to activate' \ -e 'tell app "TextMate" to activate' &

Actually, I didn’t do it correct there either :)

osascript &>/dev/null \ -e 'tell app "Backdrop" to activate' \ -e 'tell app "MenuShade" to activate' \ -e 'tell app "TextMate" to activate' &

[...] The only way this DOESN'T hang TextMate is if I set the Output to "Show as HTML". Ideally, I'd discard it, but that hangs the app. Bizarre.

That’s because commands with HTML output do not make TM wait for the command -- I probably will do the same for discarding output, but there are some considerations wrt commands that change output option midway.