[TxMt] How to freeze your TextMate

Allan Odgaard throw-away-1 at macromates.com
Sun Oct 29 00:30:52 UTC 2006


On 28. Oct 2006, at 20:47, Nicolas Schmidt wrote:

> There seems to be a problem with how TextMate deals with processes  
> run from a document. If you want your TextMate to become  
> irresponsive, just do the following
>
> 1. Open a new document
> 2. Type "yes"
> 3. Press ^R
> 4. Voilá!
>
> Of course what you do is to run into an endless loop here. But the  
> problem is that the whole application becomes irresponsive. It  
> really should not be as prone to errors in external programs, since  
> this creates the risk of data losses.

So what do you suggest? I remove the ability for you to run shell  
commands (and scripts) from TextMate?

Btw: you can always press ⌃C or ⌘. to kill the currently running  
sub process.




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