TextWrangler as Editor on mac

[driven]

To open the linked error file on a line number, requires the TW bin tool 'edit'. man edit in Terminal shows the options, I used '--separate-windows' as it seems to work best for me.

In conjunction with changing the default editor in testup 'Preferences' to '/Applications/TextWrangler.app'

I edited 'editor.rb' to use TW as shown...

  def self.open_file(file, line = 0)
    editor = self.application
    if editor =~ /TextWrangler/
      command = %[edit --separate-windows "#{file}:#{line}"]
    else
      arguments = self.arguments
      arguments.gsub!('{FILE}', file)
      arguments.gsub!('{LINE}', line)
      command = %["#{editor}" #{arguments}]
    end
    system(command)
  end

for some reason #{arguments} failed to expand so I used "#{file}:#{line}".

john

[thomthom]

Do you have a reference to the docs for TextWrangler on how command line arguments are invoked for this application?

[thomthom]

So specifying edit --separate-windows as the editor in TestUp preferences doesn't work? I don't see any reason for why #{arguments} should fail - unless you didn't have the correct formatting in the TestUp preferences. Can we see a screenshot of what you entered into the Preferences dialog?

[driven]

reference to the docs is man edit, or I can attach a PDF made using pman [a useful bin script]

[driven]

specifying edit --separate-windows returns

"edit --separatewindows" "/Users/johns_iMac/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2015/SketchUp/Plugins/testup/tests/TestUp/TC_TestErrors.rb:32"

which won't open because of the quotes, I used

[driven]

this is expanding now... must have cocked it up last night

  def self.open_file(file, line = 0)
    editor = self.application
      arguments = self.arguments
      arguments.gsub!('{FILE}', file)
      arguments.gsub!('{LINE}', line)
    if editor =~ /TextWrangler/
      command = %[edit --separate-windows #{arguments}]
    else
      command = %["#{editor}" #{arguments}]
    end
    puts command
  system(command)
  end

[thomthom]

So if you hard coded edit --separate-windows in the RB file, why not just type in edit --separate-windows in the Application text box in Preferences?

[thomthom]

(P.S. it's easier to read chunks of code if you mark them up as code blocks)

[driven]

why not just type in edit --separate-windows

it returns

"edit --separate-windows"

which won't run due to the quotes...

[thomthom]

Ah, so maybe the quotes needs to be specified in the Preference dialog so there is enough flexibility.

[driven]

It less obscure to use the app name in Preferences and hardcode conditionals.

A lot of people use TextWrangler, but never unix tools like 'edit'

[thomthom]

I have been thinking of a dropdown list of editor names where the command lines has been set up in advance.

[driven]

the default on the mac is really

  system(open "`#{file}")

that will open the file depending on it's extension, in whichever app the user normally uses, if you prepend that with -a, it opens in a chosen App, so

  system(open -a "#{application}" "`#{file}")

if you want to open at the line number then you need the 'command-line' versions depending on your choice of editor, which not everyone will have...

what about an advanced tab, in preferences, that allows you to enter your own command?

[thomthom]

Ruby files are often associated with the Ruby interpreter - we don't want to execute the RB script.

I was thinking of simply having a drop down list with per defined editors above the Editor and Arguments text fields. This is after all just a developer tool.

[driven]

I like the idea of the drop-down, but there are a lot of editors out there... would the input app text field stay? and could it also have an editable text field for the command?

[thomthom]

The existing text boxes would stay, we just add a drop down list of known configs. If people want their editor listed they just make a pull request with the patch to add it.

[macfreek]

Here are the commands for the three common plain text editors on MacOS:

General: open "#{file}" TextMate: mate -l #{line} "#{file}" BBedit (successor to TextWrangler): bbedit "#{file}" +#{line} Sublime: subl "#{file}:#{line}"

[thomthom]

@macfreek awesome!