the "mate" command-line tool is great, but i find myself also wishing that i had some way to pipe input into a textmate html window, e.g. rather than long_running_command | mate
which waits until the command is completed, and then throws the output in an editable text window, i'd like to be able to say long_running_command | pre | mate -html
and get a continuously-updated, non-editable window (with the option of adding javascript and formatting).
i could see how to hack this up myself if there were a way to initiate a textmate command from outside textmate (i.e. provide stdin, a command line, and one of the standard output choices (arguably only "show as html", "show as tool tip", and "create new document" would really make sense)) -- but i couldn't see how to do this (i'm no applescript wizard, but i poked through the scripting dictionary).
is there some trick here i'm missing? if not, consider this a feature request...
On 13/12/2005, at 18:35, m-junk@still-crazy.org wrote:
is there some trick here i'm missing? if not, consider this a feature request...
No trick, sorry. I do have some vague “more (asynchronous) piping” on my to-do. I'll add this request as a concrete sub-item to that :)