[TxMt] Re: Textmate bundle disappeared

[Brett Terpstra]

May I have permission to repost your explanation of the bundle  
system?  If it's not already in the wiki it should be, but I'd like  
to quote you on my blog where I get a goodly amount of TextMate  
traffic and this breakdown is clear and concise and would help a lot  
of people.

Thanks,
Brett

On Mar 2, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> On Mar 2, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Bruno wrote:
>
>> Steve, my fresh install consisted of a new download and deleted  
>> prefs, rather than a whole new account, but as I said, finding and  
>> dragging the Textmate bundle from Pristine Copy to Bundles did the  
>> trick.
>
> For future reference, "fresh install" means also removing  
> everything from /Library/Application Support/TextMate and ~/Library/ 
> Application Support/TextMate.
>
> Your problems after your attempt at cleanup where arising because  
> this was not actually the case.
>
> The bundle mechanism seems a bit daunting at first, but it is  
> actually fairly logical. There are four locations where bundles/ 
> bundle items may reside:
>
> 1) Inside the TextMate application
> 2) In /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles
> 3) In ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles, where ~ is  
> the current user's home directory
> 4) ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/Bundles
>
> TextMate ships with a number of bundles, so that someone could  
> start using it immediately. It contains the current version of  
> those bundles at the time of packaging, and it doesn't contain all  
> the bundles, just the most often used ones.
>
> If you want a newer version of a bundle, you have the option of  
> checking things out from the repository. It is recommended that you  
> do that in /Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles.
>
> Now, each user might edit/add bundle items, and those changes are  
> recorded in ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles. This  
> contains typically "delta" files, that record the local differences  
> to the command, for instance if you change a shortcut or something.
>
> And finally we come to the Pristine Copy directory. When you get a  
> new bundle not via the repository, but via downloading a .tmBundle  
> file, then this initial version of this bundle is stored in this  
> directory. It is supposed to be the bundle in its "pristine state",  
> and any modifications you do to the bundle are recorded in ~/ 
> Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles. so you could return  
> to that pristine state by removing these local modifications. It is  
> supposed to be used only for bundles not shipping with TM, since  
> there is already a "pristine state" for those bundles inside the TM  
> application.
>
> All this is probably explained somewhere in the wiki and/or manual,  
> but I didn't really feel like looking it up. Hope this makes things  
> clearer.
>
>> Bruno
>
> Haris Skiadas
> Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
> Hanover College
>
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> For new threads USE THIS: textmate at lists.macromates.com
> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)
> http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate