[TxMt] Re: 'mate' command from within 'screen'

[Martin Kühl]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 18:01, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2010, at 17:49, Justin Catterall wrote:
>
>> [...] The initial call to TM is working because TM activated. Any ideas how to make the next step work?
>
> The mate command uses distributed objects to talk to
> TextMate. Starting with 10.5 or 10.6 this is no longer supported from
> a shell session when there is no connection to the window server
> (AFAIK).
>
> As a workaround you can alias ‘mate’ to ‘open -a TextMate’. It
> won’t be able to do -w though.

Also, I seem to recall Apple patching the version of screen shipping
with 10.5 and 10.6 to maintain this connection to the window server.
If you built screen yourself or installed it with an external
packaging system, you might want to try /usr/bin/screen instead.

Martin