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SubEthaEdit

Bonjour-based, collaborative text editor.

Version: 3.5.2

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Command line tool

Feedback Type: Usage Tip

Contributed by: Chris Knight Monday, May 17 2004 @ 04:14 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

Since the only reason I would use bbedit instead of SEE is the command line tool, I wrote the following:

#!/bin/bash
if [ -e $1 ]
    then
        open -a /Applications/Utilities/SubEthaEdit.app $1
    else
        touch $1
        open -a /Applications/Utilities/SubEthaEdit.app $1
fi

It assumes you have SubEthaEdit in your Utilities directory, obviously. Call it "see", make it executable, put it in your $PATH somewhere, and let BBEdit gather dust... :-)

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Command line tool - wgscott

And if for some reason that isn't enough:

http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/%7Ewgscott/xtal/functions/edit

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Monday, May 17 2004 @ 04:38 PM PDT

Command line tool - sooloo

All you really need is an alias in your shells rc file:

alias see open -a SubEthaEdit

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Tuesday, May 18 2004 @ 07:39 AM PDT

Command line tool - wgscott

No, that misses the point. If you issue

open -a SubethaEdit foo.txt

and foo.txt doesn't exist, it will fail.

The "touch" creates foo.txt first, and then an empty window with that title appears, allowing you to create files in the manner of other unix editors like vi(m) and emacs.

A further tweak is to open the file with sudo if you are not the owner, allowing you to edit system files (after authenticating). This you HAVE to do with the originally posted syntax.

What I posted is just an elaborate superset of this.

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Tuesday, May 18 2004 @ 09:40 AM PDT

Command line tool - quentinsf

The real limitation with this is for scripts etc that need to know when you've finished editing the file, so they can carry on. Anyone got a good solution for this with SEE?

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Sunday, August 01 2004 @ 03:52 AM PDT