[TxMt] another PATH question (well, sort of)

[Rob McBroom]

I got a new machine recently and one of the first things I installed  
was obviously TextMate. This was before I had installed anything in  
(or even created) `/usr/local`. I realized this when TextMate offered  
to create the `mate` symlink in `/usr/bin`. No big deal. I declined,  
created `/usr/local/bin`, and started TextMate again. It still wanted  
to put the link in `/usr/bin` and `/usr/local/bin` didn't appear on  
the drop-down list. So, I just choose "Other…" and specified a path.  
Still no big deal. It's a one-time operation after all.

But yesterday, I tried to use the Subversion bundle for the first  
time on the new machine and it couldn't find `svn`. I typed `echo  
$PATH` and hit ⌃R and saw that `/usr/local/bin` hadn't made it to  
this list either (while it does appear on another machine I've been  
using for a while).

Now, I know I can fix these problems one at a time as they come up  
(specify a path for `mate`, set a path in `$TM_SVN`, etc) but I'd  
rather not do that. Plus there may be other ramifications that aren't  
obvious and I won't know they need fixing. This applies to newly  
created users as well, so it seems to be a global thing, but I can't  
figure out where. I see nothing in `/Library` that would affect  
TextMate and I know Allan has a rule about the app not modifying  
itself in `/Applications`.

Does anyone know how to make TextMate generally/globally aware that `/ 
usr/local/bin` exists now (as though it existed the first time I ran  
TextMate)? Thanks in advance.

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Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>
I didn't "switch" to Apple... my OS did.