Cool. Thank you for your reply.

I don't have to use the AppleScript command, but it's the shortest way for creating a fresh document that's not associated with a physical file on disk yet.

What started as an AppleScript exercise, I am now trying to script a workaround for the missing "Edit in TextMate" menu option in Xcode 3. I installed TM as the Input Manager as described in the blog for Leopard and it's working for many applications. Save Xcode. So I have a script for getting the actual displayed buffer from Xcode and sending it to TM by creating a new untitled window. As you can see I like using TM in tandem with Xcode 3. It's very powerful.

With the

do shell script "mate " & "/tmp/" & random_file_name

I could create a new document, open that in TM and

tell the front document insert buffer end tell

appears to work for setting the document contents to the buffer from Xcode.

Again thanks for your help.

André

--- Original Nachricht --- Absender: Hans-Jörg Bibiko Datum: 06.07.2008 10:28 Uhr

On 06.07.2008, at 05:44, André Berg wrote:

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Hi,

I am trying to get this basic command to work. Here's my script:

tell application "TextMate" activate make new document end tell

I am getting an error message in German which loosely translates to:

"TextMate" has recieved an error: Error in the AppleEvent routine"

TextMate 1.x supports only very few AppleScript commands.

Do you have to use AppleScript in order to create a new document?

Because, you can do this:

• e.g. as shell command: mate ~/Desktop/TEST.txt (this can be used

inside of AppleScripts do shell) [to install the mate command go to Help > Terminal Usage]

• e.g. as Web URL : txmt://open/?url=file://~/Desktop/TEST.txt

and some other ways.

Servus --Hans

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