Hi,

On 03 Aug 2016, at 11:14, Ross Ahmed rossahmed@googlemail.com wrote:

When I file drop a .shp file, the cursor jumps to the line below. How can I have the cursor jump to before the <- ?

actually simple and it follows the TextMate logic. Think of Snippets.

In your case you can try the following:

echo -n "${1:my_shape_var} <- readShapeSpatial("$TM_DROPPED_FILE")"

After dragging "my_shape_var" is highlighted, change the name, and press TAB

Apply this to the other ones as well.

Also, once I have dropped the file into TextMate, how can I make TextMate the active window (rather than the active window being Finder)?

Hmm, one option via AppleScript:

osascript -e "tell application "TextMate" to activate" & echo -n "${1:my_shape_var} <- readShapeSpatial("$TM_DROPPED_FILE")"

Cheers, Hans