[TxMt] Latex Config and backward compatibility questions

[Robin Houston]

On 25/07/07, Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at macromates.com> wrote:
> Just for the records; the result of 'defaults' looks like old-style
> plist, but it is not. As of such, the result is only useful as a
> human-readable format.

Surely it is at least useful for reading single preference items, e.g.

  last_root=$(defaults read -app TextMate NSNavLastRootDirectory)

in a shell script?

Robin