Question

I have installed Textmate editor on my terminal and I am looking for some tutorial to discover Textmate’s command lines ? Does anyone has a some links ?

Best,
Newben

Answer 1

The textmate bin that is optionally installed for command line access is really nothing but a simple manner to open files in the OSX gui application.

That said, there are a few handy shortcuts. -w issues a “wait” while opening the file, thus following commands in a sequence will wait until the document is closed to execute. For example:

alias bashrc="mate -w ~/.bashrc; source ~/.bashrc"

That said, if you are looking for a good command set for using within the gui itself, let me know and I will fill in a list of handy commands (it has been my default editor for 6 years now).

Edit: Here are the beginnings of my TextMate docs. I currently have the Cheat Sheet in a state that should prove useful. I will be adding to it and writing up some more extensive docs in the near future.

TextMate Cheat Sheet