[TxMt] Re: `mate <file>` from Terminal is occasionally very slow to open <file> in TextMate

jason jgavris at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 13:50:28 UTC 2018


This actually sounds exactly like the problem I was trying to address with
this PR. I'm glad someone else is experiencing it!

https://github.com/textmate/textmate/pull/1405

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Daniel Vollmer <lists at maven.de> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> when opening (existing) files from Terminal.app using the `mate` command,
> it occasionally (but not always) takes a fairly long time (more than 5secs)
> to open the file in TextMate. TM in all these instances is already running,
> but doesn't necessarily have any open windows.
>
> This is for small files (e.g. 30 short lines of code), so it cannot be the
> file size making a difference. If I open the files directly through TM's
> File -> Open... menu, no such delay happens.
>
> During such a delay, if I click on the already running TM in the dock to
> activate it, the desired document that `mate` is trying to open immediately
> appears.
>
> If I close the document and retry immediately afterwards, then no delay
> seems to exist for a while. Swap also doesn't seem to be an issue, my
> swapfile has size 0 on a 32GB Macbook Pro, with 16GB free. If TM hasn't
> been activated in a while (even though supposedly running according to the
> Dock dot) then this seems more likely.
>
> It seems to be the communication / connecting between mate and TM that
> causes this delay somehow. I've tried removing and reinstalling the `mate`
> command.
>
> This is on TextMate version 2.0-rc.10, but is not new behavior, I've seen
> this for quite some time.
>
> Does that sound familiar to anyone or have any diagnosis tips?
>
>
> Thanks,
>         Daniel.
>
>
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