[TxMt] Re: Edit in TextMate broken in OS 10.6.7?

Jenny Harrison profharrison at gmail.com
Fri May 20 03:45:26 UTC 2011


On 5/19/11, at 8:04 , Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 19 May 2011, at 22:55, Jenny Harrison wrote:
> 
>> […] used Bundles → TextMate → Install “Edit in TextMate”.  But the Symbolic Link button returned the message "The input manager (/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/Edit in TextMate) was not found in the TextMate application bundle."
> 
> This seems to indicate you have an old version of the TextMate bundle (which contains the installer + the Edit in TextMate input manager). Unless you have made changes to it, you can revert by deleting ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/TextMate.tmbundle
> 
> The proper location of the Input Manager should be: /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/TextMate.tmbundle/Support/Edit in TextMate (if you have latest TextMate, as would be the case if you just re-downloaded, it should still be here, regardless of the local version of this bundle eclipsing the newer installer).
> 
> So the steps to manually install would be:
> 
> # 1. Remove all local input managers
> rm -rf ~/Library/InputManagers
> 
> # 2. Create InputManagers folder
> sudo mkdir /Library/InputManagers
> 
> # 3. Copy the input manager to /Library
> sudo cp -pR /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/TextMate.tmbundle/Support/Edit\ in\ TextMate /Library/InputManagers
> 
> # 4. Ensure everything is owned by root
> sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers
> 
> # 5. Set permissions properly on system wide input managers
> sudo chmod -R go-w /Library/InputManagers

It works now, thanks, Allan!!!!  Edit in TextMate is so much better than QuickCursor.  Typical, I would say.  When  you do something, you do it right.    Now I can start latexing with a blend of TeXShop and TextMate just like the big guys.   

-Jenny


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