Textmate gem

Posted May 19, 2008

As I said last week, I created thor while building a binary to handle my textmate bundles.

I wanted a way to install/uninstall/list textmate bundles like gems. Textmate already has a centralized svn repository for its bundles, and there’s a way, through AppleScript, to tell Textmate to reload bundles. The end result: a textmate binary that handles textmate bundles like gems.

$ textmate remote

Marcomates Trunk Remote Bundles
-------------------------------
ANTLR
ASP
ASP_vb_NET
ActionScript
Active4D
Ada
Apache
AppleScript
Bison
Blogging
Bulletin Board
Bundle Development
C++ Qt
C
CSS
CTags
CVS
ColdFusion
Context Free
D
Darcs
... snip ...

$ textmate remote JavaScript

Marcomates Trunk Remote Bundles
-------------------------------
JavaScript MooTools
JavaScript Prototype & Script_aculo_us
JavaScript YUI
JavaScript jQuery
JavaScript

Marcomates Review Remote Bundles
--------------------------------
JavaScript JSDoc
JavaScript MooTools
JavaScript Prototype & Script_aculo_us
JavaScript

$ textmate list

Application Bundles
-------------------
ActionScript
Apache
AppleScript
Blogging
Bundle Development
C
CSS
... snip ...
User Pristine Bundles
---------------------

User Bundles
------------
RSpec
Ruby Haml
Ruby Sass
Ruby
Rucola
Treetop

System Pristine Bundles
-----------------------

System Bundles
--------------
Ragel

$ textmate install

Checking out JavaScript jQuery…
svn co http\://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/JavaScript\ jQuery.tmbundle /Users/wycats/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Pristine\ Copy/JavaScript\ jQuery.tmbundle 2>&1
A /Users/wycats/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/JavaScript jQuery.tmbundle/Commands
A /Users/wycats/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/JavaScript jQuery.tmbundle/Commands/Documentation for Word : Selection.tmCommand
A /Users/wycats/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/JavaScript jQuery.tmbundle/Snippets
A /Users/wycats/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/JavaScript jQuery.tmbundle/Snippets/each.tmSnippet
A /Users/wycats/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Pristine Copy/JavaScript jQuery.tmbundle/Snippets/clone.tmSnippet
… snip …
Checked out revision 9623.
Reloading Bundles…
Done.

$ textmate uninstall “JavaScript Prototype & Script_aculo_us”

Removing bundle...
Reloading bundles...
Done.

Pretty cool, huh? If you want it, do gem install wycats-textmate --source http://gems.github.com.

9 Comments so far

  1. Dr Nic on May 20th, 2008

    Cool idea.

    A bunch of tm bundles are now being cloned onto github and/or being hosted only on github. I name all mine xxx-tmbundle (e.g. hobo-tmbundle).

    Perhaps a search of github projects by *-tmbundle might be a bonus too? The UI might need to prompt for the actual bundle’s name (e.g. hobo-tmbundle -> Hobo.tmbundle folder)

    Might be fun.

  2. Dr Nic on May 20th, 2008

    Another bonus feature might be a bash autocompletion script for the textmate command. So many cool features :)

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  4. Adam Sanderson on May 20th, 2008

    This looks like a great tool, thanks for writing it.

  5. Cate on May 20th, 2008

    Nice. Can it be configured to use /Library/Application Support/Textmate instead of ~/Library/Application Support/Textmate?

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