Hi,
Is there any way to specify the language of a file from the mate command?
I'm using mate in the middle of shell pipe lines so there isn't any filename to pick up on.
The simplest example is "svn diff | mate". While I can set the language to diff, that becomes the default for all piped in text, so "cat README | mate" will use the diff language instead of plain text.
Am I missing something very obvious? (mate -h doesn't appear to show anything relevant).
cheers, mick
On 26/7/2006, at 14:17, Michael Twomey wrote:
Is there any way to specify the language of a file from the mate command?
No.
The simplest example is "svn diff | mate". While I can set the language to diff [...]
TextMate should generally detect diff files w/o relying on extension.
On 7/27/06, Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com wrote:
On 26/7/2006, at 14:17, Michael Twomey wrote:
The simplest example is "svn diff | mate". While I can set the language to diff [...]
TextMate should generally detect diff files w/o relying on extension.
It does 99% of the time, I've had cases where it's used diff for plain text or plain text for diff (probably as a result of me manually switching the language). If I encounter a failure to detect the file type again I'll try and document it.
A more common case for me is choosing restructured text or plain text for piped content, autodetection won't easily catch the format. I work almost exclusively from the command line, piping in input into mate. Haven't quite migrated to using bundle commands yet :)
cheers, mick
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