Question

At the command-line, if I do mate <filepath> it opens up the right file for me in TextMate.

But when I do:

$ mate -v
open: invalid option -- v
Usage: open [-e] [-t] [-f] [-W] [-R] [-n] [-g] [-h] [-b <bundle identifier>] [-a <application>] [filenames] [--args arguments]

Also, when I do git commit, I see this:

$ git commit
error: cannot run mate: No such file or directory
error: There was a problem with the editor 'mate'.
Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

My ~/.bashprofile has these lines:

#Set Textmate as my default editor from the command-line
alias mate='open -a TextMate.app'

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

And ~/.bashrc has just this one:

alias mate='open -a TextMate.app'

Edit 1

My ~/.gitconfig includes the following:

[user]
    name = My Name
    email = [e-mail]
[core]
    editor = mate
[github]
    user = marcamillion
    token = 50e3iuaidsgadjkhwkjegakjhbsdkjb30432 (don't worry, this is fake)

Help!

Answer 1

By adding the following to the core section in ~/.gitconfig

[core]
    editor = mate

Update:
Ok if it’s already there then the issue is probably with textmate and not git.

Textmate 2:

In preferences there is a terminal tab and an install button
When you click on install mate will be in /usr/local/bin/mate and everything should work.

Textmate 1:

You need to create a symbolic link
http://manual.macromates.com/en/using_textmate_from_terminal.html

I have textmate 1 (I use vim now 🙂

ls -l `which mate`

lrwxr-xr-x  1 jameskyburz  staff  66 Jul  1  2011 /usr/local/bin/mate -> /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSup

ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate /usr/local/bin/mate