[TxMt] Re: mate: failed to establish connection with TextMate.

[Tamara Temple]

On Jul 25, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 3 Jul 2011, at 22:09, Tamara Temple wrote:
>
>> I do not know why i sometimes get this error. It seems to happen if  
>> I am running inside a shell in screen. It has happened other times  
>> as well when I'm not in a screen shell.
>
> The mate shell command uses distributed objects to communicate with  
> TextMate.
>
> Apple added some “session isolation” around Leopard, but I think  
> they “fixed” it again in Snow Leopard, so that commands running  
> under a screen session would have access to the “services” that a  
> logged in user should be able to access.
>
> Perhaps you are using a custom build of screen? Unless you use the ‘- 
> w’ option of mate, you can use ‘open -a TextMate’ as an alias for  
> mate (and I think that should work regardless of session context).
>

No, but I am still running Leopard, so that explains it.