How to start textmate in command line

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Because I didn't create textmate link when installing, so it can not find 'mate' command. who can help me to deal with this? thanks

score 78 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 17:30

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Textmate 2:

From the menu:

Textmate -> Preferences -> Terminal: click install

For more information read the "Terminal Preferences" from Help

answered Oct 15 '13 at 17:30

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Thanks, it worked! Then to write commands, preface them in command line with `mate`. – Azurespot Jun 11 '16 at 04:40

score 34 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 25 '10 at 03:53

Even though is question is more suited for Super User, I'll bite:

Creating a symbolic link can either be done by selecting Help → Terminal Usage… from the menu, or from the shell by running something like the following:

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

This assumes that you have ~/bin created and in your path and that TextMate is installed in /Applications.

Therefore, I'd recommend looking inside of the Textmate.app bundle :)

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Mavericks was acting strange with a bunch of the other solutions, but Help → Terminal Usage couldn't have been simpler. Cheers! — gbdev, Jun 24 '14 at 20:24

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 13 '16 at 18:35

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Install TextMate

If you're using bash, open .bashrc or .bash_profile; or if you're using zsh the open .zshrc and add

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

Navigate to the Preferences -> Terminal and click install

answered Nov 13 '16 at 18:35

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 11 '11 at 05:37

TextMate will create the symbolic link you need. Launch TextMate as you would any other Cocoa app, and under the "Help" menu, select "Terminal Usage..." A simple GUI presents you with some defaults you will almost certainly use but can tweek if necessary. Click "Create Link" and you're set.

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 27 '11 at 14:52

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Create a symboling link to bin folder

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

then export all links to path variable

export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

for more detailed information go to TextMate's official help page.

answered Sep 27 '11 at 14:52

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