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Dave Everitt
Dave Everitt

Reputation: 17871

TextMate 2 command-line `mate` failing: no /bin/mate in 'SharedSupport/...'

I've tried several solutions on OS X Snow Leopard to get TextMate2 to recognise mate filename, but it appears there's no 'mate' for the mate command to call: 

$cd /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/
$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 admin  staff  102  9 Jul  2012 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 admin  staff  306  9 Jul  2012 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 admin  staff  102  9 Jul  2012 Bundles

$ which mate
/Users/admin/bin/mate

But the mate script (~/bin/mate) fails because 'Contents/Resources/mate' doesn't exist:

#!/bin/sh
exec "${TM_MATE:-$("$TM_SUPPORT_PATH/bin/find_app" com.macromates.TextMate.preview)/Contents/Resources/mate}" "$@"

...so mate myfile gives:

/Users/admin/bin/mate: line 2: /bin/find_app: No such file or directory
/Users/admin/bin/mate: line 2: /Contents/Resources/mate: No such file or directory
/Users/admin/bin/mate: line 2: exec: /Contents/Resources/mate: cannot execute: No such file or directory

I can't find a solution to this, after about 2 hours, so if anyone's come across the same issue I'd appreciate some help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1269

Answers (1)

TechnoCat
TechnoCat

Reputation: 684

I think the problem is that you've installed TextMate but have not yet enabled shell support via Terminal. Here's now to fix that with a few clicks.

  1. Open Text Mate and navigate to TextMate | Preferences.

  2. Select Terminal. You will probably see a message saying that Shell support has not yet been installed and that you will need both to install the mate shell command and to add a line to your .bashrc.

  3. Click the "Install" button to install the mate shell command.

  4. Copy the line below and paste it into your .bashrc.

    export EDITOR="/usr/local/bin/mate -w"

  5. Close and re-open the Terminal and the "mate" command should now work as intended.

Upvotes: 3

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