[TxMt] external Editor

[Hans-Joerg Bibiko]

On 14 Apr 2008, at 15:02, Takaaki Kato wrote:
> I tried the code, as Hans writes in the comment, you need to quit  
> the app not just close the window. It would be great if closing the  
> window writes back to TM document.

Well, without AppleScript I guess it's a bit tricky to do it, but you  
can try the following:


...
# wait for CSSEdit (it must be quitted)
touch /tmp/tm_css.tmp
while [ `ps -ax | grep 'CSSEdit\.app' | wc -l` == "1" ]
do
	sleep 0.5
	[[ /tmp/tm.css -nt /tmp/tm_css.tmp ]] && break
done

# write file back to TM
if [ -f /tmp/tm.css ]; then
	cat /tmp/tm.css | sed "s/^/$HEAD/"
	rm /tmp/tm.css
	rm  /tmp/tm_css.tmp
else
	beep
	exit_discard
fi
...

That means, IF you quit CSSEdit OR you save the document in CSSEdit,  
TM will get the current content. But this works only once. Once you  
have saved that file TM won't be notified about further changes. One  
could write an HTML output window command, where you define a  
JavaScript loop using TextMate.system() as a kind of a listener, but I  
do not know how stable and/or useful it will be.

Maybe to use AppleScript would be better. But, as I already mentioned,  
I do not have CSSEdit.

--Hans