[TxMt] tm update needed

[Chris Thomas]

On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Gavin Kistner wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2005, at 8:11 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded TextMate today, but it didn't have the usual  
>> includes (the service and the bin/ applications).  Now running  
>> "tm" says, "tm: you need to update this helper tool (server at  
>> version 2)."  How can I get the latest version of these extras?
>>
>
> I ran into that this morning, too. I found a copy of the mate  
> command (which replaces 'tm' due to closeness to 'rm') in the  
> Contents/Resources directory of TextMate's package. Copying this  
> to /usr/local/bin made my machine happy again.

To future-proof this, what you actually want is:

  ln -s /path/to/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate /usr/local/bin/ 
mate

Per this release note:

> [NEW] The 'mate' shell command is now contained in the TextMate.app  
> bundle (under Contents/Resources). So I encourage you to delete  
> what you previously installed in ~/bin (or maybe /usr/bin) and  
> instead use a symbolic link, e.g.: ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/ 
> Contents/Resources/mate ~/bin/mate. That way, if the command is  
> updated in the future, you will get this update as part of the TM  
> auto-updating mechanism (I'll likely give TM the capability to  
> create this link in the future).

Chris