On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:55:02 -0500 Kjell Olsen wrote:

I can't make the date function work within the command - If I execute my script outside of textmate it works beautifully, but from within textmate I get:

<code> date: illegal time format usage: date [-nu] [-r seconds] [+format] date [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]hh]mm[.ss] </code>

Timothy Martens' solution of using an external script which is then called with a command works well, or -- if you'd prefer to keep it all within TextMate, you could try something like:

ruby <<END task_text = "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" task_text.gsub!("[ ] ","[X] ") print ""

from = File.basename("$TM_FILEPATH",".txt") comp_time = Time.now datestamp = comp_time.strftime("%d/%m/%Y at %H:%M")

File.open("/Users/me/completed.txt",'a'){|archive_file| archive_file.puts archive_file.puts "#{task_text} => in #{from} on #{datestamp}" } END

I ran into a similar problem, which I suspect in my case was down to escaping the quotes in the format string wrongly. The double quotes to form the Ruby string make this tricky. I decided to side-step the issue slightly long-windedly by using Ruby's 'date' methods. Note also that this code works on selected text: I have Standard in = selected text and Standard out = Replace selected text. The selected task then gets deleted from the original file and pasted in to the completed.txt file with a checkbox ([X]).

I also put the date stamp on the same line as the text to make it easier to grep for; when someone chases me about something I've done, I can double-check when I did it ;-)

I'm a Ruby-newbie too, so I'm sure more experienced coders could make it more efficient.

Jackie

-- Jackie Chappell jmchappell@mac.com