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Diego DeSouz
Diego DeSouz
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Posted by Diego DeSouz
Diego DeSouz
2,379 Points

Hey Jason, Im new to this and I'm having a hard time opening textmate using mate from my terminal in mac.

I tried doing everything you did from the beginning and since i had ruby and homebrew and rvm all installed i don't know if i did anything incorrect from start. I even thought about reformatting my mac and do everything from scratch again. please help

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Sri Sreedharan
Sri Sreedharan
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Sri Sreedharan
Sri Sreedharan
5,526 Points

What happens when you type : 'mate -h' in terminal?

Diego DeSouz
Diego DeSouz
2,379 Points
Diego DeSouz
Diego DeSouz
2,379 Points

it says -bash: mate: command not found

Sri Sreedharan
Sri Sreedharan
5,526 Points
Sri Sreedharan
Sri Sreedharan
5,526 Points

Go to 'preferences' in Textmate

Click 'Terminal'

 Follow those instructions: 
     Open the bashrc file in textedit: open -e .bashrc 
     Add this line to it: export EDITOR="/usr/local/bin/mate -w"
     Save it.

Click Install in the 'Terminal' tab

Hope that helps!

Rishi Shah
Rishi Shah
5,298 Points

So helpful!

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points
Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Here's a bit more about installing the Textmate 2 command line stuff, in case anyone else is wondering!

Diego DeSouz
Diego DeSouz
2,379 Points
Diego DeSouz
Diego DeSouz
2,379 Points

wow that amazing. would've never thought of going to preferences at textmate. Thank you very much. I certainly have to learn the terminal a little better. it's a whole other world for me. thanks again