[TxMt] 'Open Terminal' breaks opening .term files

thomas Aylott thomas.42 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 16:39:25 UTC 2006


On Jul 18, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> On 17/7/2006, at 21:02, Michael Reece wrote:
>> i keep a folder of saved terminals (*.term files) which i use to  
>> open color-coded terminals (blue.term, red.term, green.term, etc).
>>
>> after using the CTRL-SHIFT-o from textmate to open a terminal at  
>> the current files directory, double-clicking my .term files in  
>> finder no longer opens a terminal, until i close all terminals and  
>> re-open Terminal.app, then the *.term files work again until i  
>> next CTRL-SHIFT-o from textmate.
>
> I don’t think the problem is with TextMate. The Open Terminal  
> (⌃⇧O) just asks Terminal for a new window and instructs it to CD  
> to the directory of the current document.

It's a Terminal problem.
It's supposed to be some sort of virus protection thing, but it's  
extremely poorly implemented IMHO.

> There have been two cases in the past where this caused the users  
> Terminal preferences to somehow record that in the future Terminal  
> should CD to that folder as part of its startup (or similar.)  
> Though I haven’t been able to reproduce it, and TextMate doesn’t  
> do anything special in the Open Terminal command (you can have a  
> look at the code in the bundle editor.)

That is caused by hitting the Use Setting as Defaults button in the  
Window Settings inspector.

thomas Aylott—subtleGradient


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