[TxMt] Re: make mate behave like TM itself when opening folder

[Matt Neuburg]

Yeah, sorry, I can't really reproduce the problem any more. No doubt you're right; I'm always winding up in odd places in the browser by mistake. :) m.

> On May 10, 2020, at 6:13 PM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> wrote:
> 
> On 4 Jan 2020, at 11:23, Matt Neuburg wrote:
> 
> When I say (in ruby)
> 
> `"#{ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH']}/bin/mate" '#{p}'`
> 
> where p is the pathname of a folder, what appears in the project browser is that folder plus (hierarchically down from it) all its contents.
> 
> But when I open a folder using TextMate, directly, what appears in the project browser is just the contents of the folder; the folder itself is not in the project browser.
> 
> How can I make the former (`mate`) behave like the latter (TextMate itself)?
> 
> I think what is happening here is that at one point, you opened folder and then navigated to parent folder (in file browser) and closed the window.
> 
> The problem is that TextMate stores “state” for each folder, this includes file browser location.
> 
> So now when you open folder it restores the state, where file browser is actually pointing to a parent folder.
> 
> I realize in this situation, it will be confusing, and should improve this.
> 
> For now, try open your folder via mate and then select File Browser → Project Folder (⇧⌘P). Does that bring you back to the expected folder?
> 
> If you close window and re-run mate, I think it should then behave as expected.
> 
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