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

[jason]

If you're willing to rebuild TM from source, I tried to play with how
`mate` launches in this pull request
https://github.com/textmate/textmate/pull/1405. Allan suggested this was
not the right approach, but I wonder if it was close to exposing the
problem.

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 1:50 PM Jay Soffian <jaysoffian at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know I'm bumping an old thread. This behavior happens to me all the time
> (a few times a day). I haven't been able to figure it out. I don't use fish
> shell, but rather bash. I do use a multi-monitor setup but I think I've
> seen it when only using my laptop alone. It probably dates back to High
> Sierra. My typical use case is "mate ." in a directory, not a specific
> file. That directory will have a ".tm_properties" file making it a project.
> I use iTerm2.
>
> So TextMate is running, I switch to a directory in iTerm2, type "mate ."
> then the command just hangs for 5-10 seconds before TextMate finally comes
> to the front.
>
> The laptop has an SSD. I think the problem is worse when I have a USB
> drive attached for Time Machine.
>
> I haven't thought to try clicking TextMate in the dock or command-tab
> switching to it. I will try that next time this occurs.
>
> I assume the folks who were suffering from this problem in this thread
> have continued to put up with it? I know how frustrating it is. :-(
>
> j.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 3:53 AM Daniel Vollmer <lists at maven.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I haven’t really managed to diagnose this further, but occasionally I get
>> the feeling that this might be due to how `fish` shell triggers execution
>> of binaries (but again, I’ve only observed this in conjunction with `mate`
>> — but that’s probably my most-used command-line utility that connects to
>> the WindowServer by a large margin).
>>
>>         Daniel.
>>
>> > On 12. Nov 2018, at 05:30, Kevin Reid <kpreid at switchb.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 7:42 PM Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org>
>> wrote:
>> > On 29 Jul 2018, at 16:57, Kevin Reid wrote:
>> >
>> > I can't confirm right now because the problem is not happening (it's
>> > intermittent and I haven't identified a cause).
>> >
>> > Try run something like this from a terminal to see if it is
>> reproducible:
>> >
>> > for (( i = 1; i < 50; i++ )); do echo -n "Edit $i..."; mate -w
>> "/tmp/test $i.txt"; echo "Done!"; done
>> >
>> > I did this myself but only issue I saw was that sometimes TextMate
>> wouldn’t activate, mostly addressed in these two commits:
>> https://github.com/textmate/textmate/compare/cc9faa602...d93972f95 and
>> should only hapen when `mate` is used in succession.
>> >
>> > No hang/slow when I ran your test. However, in my experience since the
>> last discussion, the problem seems to come and go on a long time scale.
>> Like there's something else about the system, like maybe the state of
>> Spaces/fullscreen, that determines whether it happens; it isn't random each
>> time.
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > textmate mailing list
>> > textmate at lists.macromates.com
>> > https://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> textmate mailing list
>> textmate at lists.macromates.com
>> https://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> textmate mailing list
> textmate at lists.macromates.com
> https://lists.macromates.com/listinfo/textmate
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.macromates.com/textmate/attachments/20190712/6d12c4e6/attachment.html>