Hi -
Using TM v.1.5 (906), I selected Terminal Usage... from the Help menu. I got a message window titled "Enhanced Terminal Usage" which explained about the shell command "mate" and asked where to create a symlink. I left the default location as /usr/bin and clicked then "Create Link" button. The standard admin user authentication box pops up, I enter the secret password. Then I get a error message box that says:
Couldn't Create Link
Creating the link "/usr/bin/mate" failed with the following reason: Operation not permitted
Hmmm. I check to see if mate is in /bin. Nope. Okay let's check /usr/ bin. Ahh a symlink but not a valid one. The link is /Users/aurora/ Desktop/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate. The correct link should be /Users/aurora/Desktop/TextMate/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate. Which in turn is a symlink to ../SharedSupport/Support/bin/mate where it truly is. So, I deleted the bad symlink at /usr/bin and recreated it properly. After a rehash, where mate shows it at /usr/bin/mate. And mate -h returns help as it should.
Conclusion: whatever process or command within Textmate that created the original (bad) symlink in /usr/bin needs to get tweaked to add the TextMate bundle (Textmate) into the source file name. The Textmate app name (TextMate.app) is fine, but both are needed.
Hope this helps,
Brian Caldwell
On 2/3/2006, at 6:45, Brian Caldwell wrote:
Conclusion: whatever process or command within Textmate that created the original (bad) symlink in /usr/bin needs to get tweaked to add the TextMate bundle (Textmate) into the source file name. The Textmate app name (TextMate.app) is fine, but both are needed.
I think more likely the link was already created, while TM was running from just ~/Desktop (instead of ~/Desktop/TextMate).
Though why it did not detect, that there already was a link, I don’t know. A quick test shows that this code works here -- but “operation not permitted” would indicate failure to overwrite the existing link (which does have to be removed for TM to be able to create a new, unline e.g. files, but TM should also detect when there already is one).
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Allan Odgaard -
Brian Caldwell