On 11 Feb 2005, at 11:57, Rich Barton wrote:

On 11 Feb 2005, at 12:47, Mats Persson wrote:

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2. There is always a New line character behind the input, whereas I

would just want the cursor to remain immediately behind the inserted text on the same line.

You can use the -n switch to remove the trailing newline, i.e. echo -n `date +%Y-%m-%d`

Thanks Rich, that helped me a lot. Now I can just 'arrow-left' and continue typing. Thank you!

Kind regards,

Mats

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On Feb 11, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Mats Persson wrote:

Ah, spoke to early there. :( The following command still produces a New line character behind it.

echo -n $TM_FILEPATH | sed "s|^$TM_USER_ROOT_DIRECTORY(.*)$|\1|"

Any idea of how to avoid that one ???

echo $TM_FILEPATH | sed "s|^$TM_USER_ROOT_DIRECTORY(.*)$|\1|" | tr -d '\n'

On Feb 11, 2005, at 12:47, Mats Persson wrote:

1. The inserted text is always selected, and I would prefer it to not

be selected.

You should be able to not have it selected if you insert as snippet.

2. There is always a New line character behind the input, whereas I

would just want the cursor to remain immediately behind the inserted text on the same line.

I know this was already answered, but just to summarize:

echo -n <your text> # insert text w/o newline echo <your text> | tr -d '\n' # let tr delete any newline characters

Additionally you can also create your “command” as a snippet. Snippets lets you execute shell commands using backticks (`) so e.g. this snippet:

`date +%Y-%m-%d`

Would insert current date. For shell commands in snippets, TextMate automatically removes the last newline. And actually, if you look in the Text Utilities bundle, there already is a snippet to insert current date, though with time zone set to GMT [1] and including hours/minutes/seconds. The tab trigger is 'isoD'.

[1] after having worked with date-stamped information, I have given up on local time-zones and their DST oddities ;)

On Feb 11, 2005, at 21:28, Sune Foldager wrote:

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[...] with time zone set to GMT [...]

I believe using UTC would be more "correct", since GMT is a zone, and UTC is a different time standard ;)... but this is nit-picking of course, since they of course coincide.

Since the actual snippet is:

`TZ=GMT date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ`

It quite literally sets the time zone (TZ) to GMT! :)

But I see that TZ=UTC actually also works -- quite sure I discarded that as non-working when I did the snippet. Must have been the latest 10.3.8 update ;)