Now, on to the reason I’m here: is there any way I can get expandable directory aliases in the project drawer? At the moment, when you create an alias to a directory it just appears as a file in the TextMate project drawer. The only useful thing you can do with it is to right-click and view it in finder.
Also I can’t actually move directories into other directories in the project drawer but that bug has been there for ages so I guess you all already know about it.
Ollie
What about creating a symbolic link as opposed to an alias?
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On 2011-09-17, at 20:37, Ollie Saunders oliver.saunders@gmail.com wrote:
Now, on to the reason I’m here: is there any way I can get expandable directory aliases in the project drawer? At the moment, when you create an alias to a directory it just appears as a file in the TextMate project drawer. The only useful thing you can do with it is to right-click and view it in finder.
Also I can’t actually move directories into other directories in the project drawer but that bug has been there for ages so I guess you all already know about it.
Ollie
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Well the trouble with a symbolic link is that, if the target moves, it breaks. Besides, aliases are basic and long standing feature of OS X so it’s surprising that they aren’t supported.
You could use a hard link instead since that will directly reference the same inode in the filesystem :)
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2011/9/20 Ollie Saunders oliver.saunders@gmail.com
Well the trouble with a symbolic link is that, if the target moves, it breaks. Besides, aliases are basic and long standing feature of OS X so it’s surprising that they aren’t supported.
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On Sep 20, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Ollie Saunders wrote:
Besides, aliases are basic and long standing feature of OS X so it’s surprising that they aren’t supported.
They’re a feature of MacOS (9 and older), not OS X. They don’t exist in any meaningful way outside Finder, which I’m guessing is why they don’t work the way you want in TextMate.
They could be made to work though.
This script (AppleScript in BASH) give you the path pointed to by an alias: https://github.com/olliesaunders/osEnv/blob/master/bin/apath
And makes use of abs_path (BASH), which you can see here: https://github.com/olliesaunders/osEnv/blob/master/bin/abs_path
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 14:50, Rob McBroom mailinglist0@skurfer.com wrote:
On Sep 20, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Ollie Saunders wrote:
Besides, aliases are basic and long standing feature of OS X so it’s surprising that they aren’t supported.
They’re a feature of MacOS (9 and older), not OS X. They don’t exist in any meaningful way outside Finder, which I’m guessing is why they don’t work the way you want in TextMate. -- Rob McBroom http://www.skurfer.com/
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OK. Does in future mean TextMate or TextMate 2?
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:43, Allan Odgaard mailinglist@textmate.org wrote:
On 20 Sep 2011, at 18:13, Ollie Saunders wrote:
They could be made to work though.
We’ll support resolving aliases from the file browser in the future — you will only be able to descend into them, not expand them as tree nodes.
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