TextMate in Path Finder

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Edit in TextmateI claimed in my last post that Path Finder had great integration with TextMate, and it does to an extent. However, I had forgotten that it takes quite a bit of fiddling to get any kind of decent project management out of the context menus (and some more third party applications). So to try to avoid that I put together this applescript (see below). Paste it into Script Editor and save it as an application in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Path Finder. If you want a pretty icon for it, find the TextMate application in your Applications folder and open an info window and highlight the small icon at the top left and hit ⌘-C. Then open the info window for your new script application and highlight the script icon and press ⌘-V. Now just drag it into the menu bar at the top of a Path Finder window.

The script allows you to select a single directory and open it as a project, or open a single file. If you select multiple files or folders it will create a project from those files. Just highlight your selection and click the icon.

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CODE:
  1. tell application “Path Finder”
  2.     set selection_list to selection
  3.     set ThePath to ””
  4.     if the (count of selection_list) = 1 then
  5.         set theItem to the first item of selection_list
  6.         set ThePath to quoted form of (POSIX path of the theItem as string)
  7.     else
  8.         set file_list to ””
  9.         repeat with one_item in selection_list
  10.             set file_list to file_list & (POSIX path of one_item as string) & ” “
  11.         end repeat
  12.         set ThePath to file_list
  13.     end if
  14.     set TheCommand to “open -a TextMate  “ & ThePath
  15.     do shell script TheCommand
  16. end tell

If you just want to download the file and not deal with all of the above… go ahead: Open_in_TM.app.zip

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  1. Reinier Meenhorst 01.19.07 / 3am

    Works fo me, thanks Brett!

  2. Dan Feder 01.28.08 / 12pm

    Any way to modify this to just open the current folder if nothing is selected? I have been trying with out luck to code this.

  3. brett 01.28.08 / 1pm

    Actually, it did that already, but AppleScript in Path Finder has been broken for some time now. I’m waiting for a fix, which will probably change the terminology in the script but should make this work again.

  4. Frank 01.07.09 / 12pm

    Is there any updates on this script? Doesn’t seem to work for PF5.x - it basically doesn’t work here with leopard 10.5.6, PF 5.0.6 and latest Textmate.

  5. Jean 06.11.09 / 5am

    This is a very useful script. Congratulations. However, I noticed a small bu. If you try to open a hidden file (such as .profile or .bashrc), the script crashes with the message

    Can’t make “class pthP” of “class cfiL” “.profile” of “class cfoL” … etc. etc.

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