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...