I don't get it. What's the point of this script when you can just drag a file or directory from Finder and drop it onto the TextMate dock icon?


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Because you can't open some things as a plain text document (i.e., textmate project files... textmate theme files etc.) An easy way to do the same thing is use terminal, mate ./file.ext will open the source of the file and not the project/theme.

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Here is a zsh shell script (or function) to cd to the directory displayed in the frontmost textmate window:

#!/bin/zsh -f

#  cdt

        DocPath="$(osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to return path of first document')" 
        DocDir="$(dirname "$DocPath")" 
        print "The frontmost TextMate file is $DocPath"
        fdc () {
                if [ -n "$1" ]
                then
                        if [ "${1%%/*}" = "" ]
                        then
                                thePath="$1" 
                        else
                                thePath="$(pwd)""/$1" 
                        fi
                else
                        thePath="$(pwd)" 
                fi
                osascript  /dev/null
                print "Changing Finder display to $DocDir"
                print "Current Working Directory remains $PWD"
        elif [[ $1 = "-F" ]]
        then
                command cd $DocDir
                fdc $DocDir > /dev/null
                print "Changing directory and Finder display to $PWD"
        else
                command cd $DocDir
                print "Changing directory to $PWD"
        fi

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As excited as I was about this hint, I just realized that it's not even necessary. If you have the TextMate icon on your Finder window toolbar (and really, you should, because it allows you to simply drag-and-drop any file onto it to open in TextMate), all you have to do is drag the Finder window's proxy icon (the small one next to its name in the top menu bar) onto the TextMate icon. Ta-da! No AppleScript needed!

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But then again, you can save this script as an application, then us QS' "Open With.." command for a quick keyboard-only approach.


Sharing is caring! Thanks OP.

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You don't need to save anything to do this in Quicksilver. It'll work "out of the box". Just hit

⌘⎋ ⇥ ow ⇥ tm ↩

In case those characters don't come through correctly, that was

Command-Escape, Tab, ow, Tab, tm, Return

I don't have Front Row, but I think it uses Command-Escape, so in that case, you can just bring up Quicksilver the usual way and hit ⌘G (Command-G). Enjoy!

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