On 27. Feb 2007, at 02:44, Jacob Glenn wrote:

I seem to have messed up my TextMate theme default and was wondering if anyone could tell me how to fix it. I toyed with the colors of my favorite theme (Vibrant Ink) and decided I didn't like the changes, so I uninstalled and then reinstalled the theme. But now when I restart TextMate it doesn't recognize Vibrant Ink (which does not show up in the theme list).

How did you uninstall it? If you somehow deleted it from inside TextMate, and the theme was outside ~/Library, TM will record it as having been deleted, rather than remote it from disk.

To reset the state of deleted (default) themes, execute the following from Terminal (while TM is not running):

defaults delete com.macromates.textmate OakThemeManagerDeletedThemes

I looked in ~/Library/Applcation Support/TextMate/Themes, and the .tmTheme file is there. So what's up? Any clues? I miss Vibrant Ink :<

Try cat the theme to see if it is intact -- e.g. grep it through ‘pl’.