HOWTO: Debug Commands Using Scope as Input - TextMate

29 Mar 2008


      The following process will give you a command which you can run to  
help debug commands:
1) Create a Command in the Bundle Editor called "Command Output"
2) Paste the following script into the Bundle Editor:
    #!/usr/bin/env ruby
    print '<pre>'
    print while gets
    print "\n"
    print "------------\n"
    print "END OF STDIN\n"
    print "------------\n"
    print `env | sort`
    print '</pre>'
3) Set Input to Selected Text or Scope
4) Set Output to Show as HTML
5) Set the scope to whatever scope you want to use in your command
Try it out. It will dump the input followed by a divider followed by  
the entire environment supplied to the command.
I used this to determine what TextMate was supplying to the Command I  
was writing.