[TxMt] Re: how can I make TextMate the default editor for text files on 10.5.6

[Scott Haneda]

The more I read this, the more it is becoming massively clear, this is  
not a textmate issue at all.  You are on 10.5.6, which is known to  
work, for what appears to be the better majority of users.

You have something strange going on with your system.  While there is  
a chance TM is making it more apparent, file opening, either by drag  
and drop or double click etc, are easily controlled by Mac OS X.

Curious what happens if you select a file and press command-O on the  
keyboard, or command-downarrow.

At this point, I suggest you crete a new user account in OS X, login  
to that account, and see if that solves it.  If that solved it, you  
know it is a preference issue, a preference pane, or some input  
manager or other installed item.

You can start picking around in your regular user folder to try to  
solve it, which is not all that bad.  Move everything out of ~/Library/ 
Preferences, logout, login, see if that solves it.  Put a handful of  
the prefs back in, log out, log in, see if the problem comes back.   
Rinse and repeat until you have solved it.

If it is not user setting related, it is higher up in the preferences  
chain of how OS X handles preferences.  At this point, I would just  
clean reinstall and rebuild my system from scratch.  Takes me a few  
hours to do so and be working, and then small fine tunes over the  
course of the next few weeks, but I have a known clean machine.

On Apr 4, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Bill Paxton wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
> Thanks -- the alias indeed takes care of the command line part of the
> problem.
> But I'd like to be able to double click on the files too.  And so far,
> nothing
> has fixed that.
>
> The Finder seems to have something against TextMate!  It refuses to  
> open
> files with it even when Get Info lists tm as the "Open with"
> application.
>
> Actually, the Finder doesn't really hate TextMate -- it just seems to
> get confused
> when trying to find it in the Applications folder and picks someother
> app instead.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> 1) create a new extensionless file
> 	echo 'ff' > newfile
>
> 2) select and Get Info for newfile.  It says Open with: TextMate.app
>
> 3) double click newfile.
> 	Finder tries to open it with an old version of GraphicConverter!
>
> Move the old GraphicConverter to trash and try again.
> This time I get the following message:
>
> 	You can't open this document because the
> 	application "TextMate.app" is in the Trash.
>
> So -- the Finder thinks that the old GraphicConverter is TextMate.
> The real TextMate.app is sitting in Applications still.
>
> After doing a Restart, double click on newfile now causes it to open
> in TeXShop!
> The Finder has picked up a different app to use in place of TextMate.

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