While rmate’s main purpose is to be used in combination with SSH connections, this is not a requirement. When you trigger rmate on a remote box, it will connect back to your box, allow you to edit, and update the file on the server with the changes. TextMate 2 now ships with an rmate (Ruby) script that you can drop onto servers. If you regularly find yourself SSHed into a remote box and wanting to edit a file using TextMate on your own box, your ship has come in.
In the past, TextMate has suffered with editing files on a server, but that’s all changed now.
Somewhere in the past, TextMate introduced rmate which allows you to call TextMate remotely and pass the file you’d like to edit. Specifically, from within a Windows virtual machine (though it will work on a regular machine as well, it’ll just be more cumbersome). Sure, Windows has its number of perfectly adequate text editors ( Notepad++ comes to mind), but text editors are a strange beast and once you have found your match, it’s difficult to stray.Īnyway, this post will not show you how to run TextMate within Windows (it would probably be a suboptimal), but rather how to call TextMate from within Windows. It’s one of the platform’s most popular text editors and my personal weapon of choice, except when editing extremely large text files, which is TextMate’s Achilles’ heel.Īs I’m anything but a fan of Windows and simultaneously forced to work with the OS professionally, I try to make the experience as painless as possible. TextMate needs little to no introduction for macOS users.
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