Ubiquitous Use of TextMate (Text Editor for Mac) in Cocoa Applications

One of my favorite things about TextMate and one the things that keeps bringing be back from Vim is how well it integrates with OSX. One example of this is the “Edit in TextMate” InputManager. To get it to work go to Bundles –> TextMate –> Install “Edit in TextMate”… If you’re on Tiger you’re done just restart the apps you want to use this with (Cocoa apps only, so Mail.app, Safari and so on.) However for Leopard users Apple has made this a little bit more difficult but still doable. Here’s how:

# Remove old version
rm ~/Library/InputManagers/Edit\ in\ TextMate

# Create InputManagers folder
sudo mkdir /Library/InputManagers

# Copy the input manager to /Library
sudo cp -pR /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/Edit\ in\ TextMate /Library/InputManagers

# Ensure everything is owned by root
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers[ Via: TextMate Blog]

And you’re done. Restart the apps you want to use this, go to a text field and press Control-Command-E and it will open up TextMate. Edit the text, save it and you’ll see the original text magically change.

Here’s a video showing it off:

Click on the picture and pay close attention the commands I’m using that are shown in the bottom right of the video.

 
 

Submitted on January 15, 2008 at 11:11 pm - Ubiquitous Use of TextMate (Text Editor for Mac) in Cocoa Applications was written by Travis Jeffery - There have been 5 comments - Categorized in Advanced Tips, Cool OS X Apps, Productivity Tips, TextMate Tips - Tags: editintextmate, productivity, texteditors, textmate

5 Responses to “Ubiquitous Use of TextMate (Text Editor for Mac) in Cocoa Applications”

1. 
   Morgan Daly
   Cool tip, but i really want to know where the desktop picture in your video came from?
   
   Thanks January 16th, 2008 at 5:50 am
   
   
2. 
   Travis Jeffery
   Morgan - I've checked around and I can't find it anywhere on the web and I deleted it a while ago on my computer so it's probably in some temporary folder but I can't find it. January 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am
   
   
3. 
   Morgan Daly
   Thanks.
   
   That desktop reference is a great idea and I might do one myself if I ever get the time. Be a good advertising tool for anyone. Like giving away calendars with your logo on them. January 18th, 2008 at 1:25 am
   
   
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   January 24th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
   
   
5. 
   Curious
   Thanks. Great information and explained very well. November 21st, 2008 at 9:02 am
   
   

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