Protocool ack-tmbundle

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  Trevor Squires November 27th, 2008 @ 06:30 PM

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  Very odd - it works for me (never had this complaint before either), I use it all the time.

  I've coded the dialog to be seeded with the contents of the 'find' pasteboard plus the last 10 searches. Ticket #7 mentions that your search list is always empty so I'm thinking this is related somehow to preferences.

  My first question is this: have you done any alterations to the bundle? As in, this is behavior you see in my version of ack-in-project (not a fork) and you haven't modified it in any way right?

  From the command line, type this:

  
  defaults read com.macromates.TextMate ackHistory
  

  It should be a base64 encoded string. If it's empty then I'm going to guess that there's something up with your version of ruby. If it's not empty then this will require a bit more digging...

  Let me know what you find.

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  Trevor Squires November 27th, 2008 @ 06:37 PM

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  Ed Ruder December 4th, 2008 @ 11:06 PM

  No, I haven't modified the bundle at all.

  When I type,

  
  defaults read com.macromates.TextMate ackHistory
  

  on the command line, I get:

  
  The domain/default pair of (com.macromates.TextMate, ackHistory) does not exist
  

  I'm pretty sure that my version of Ruby is OK--I'm a Ruby/Rails developer, using TextMate's Ruby & Rails support every day.

  I wonder whether the problem I'm having with awk-tmbundle is related at all to a problem I started to encounter a while ago and haven't figured out the cause: many, but not all, of the applications that I own that have a "check for updates" feature consistently fail when they try to apply the updates that they download. (Path Finder is one notable exception--I think they're doing their own self-updating and they've figured out how to avoid whatever problem I'm having. I'm guessing that OS X itself provides support for this feature and the stock mechanism isn't working on my Mac for some reason and Path Finder doesn't use the stock mechanism.)

  The error message that these apps consistently report is related to file/directory permissions--something they do in the process of updating themselves fails because they don't have adequate permissions. This, despite the self-updating process having flown a dialog requiring an administrator (me) to authenticate.

  Does this give you any clues?

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  Trevor Squires December 8th, 2008 @ 01:16 PM

  Hrm...

  well, complaints about permissions are certainly a clue. Does it complain when you do this?

  
  defaults write com.macromates.TextMate ackTestingPrefs -bool yes
  # if that works, make sure the output of the next command is '1'
  defaults read com.macromates.TextMate ackTestingPrefs
  

  If it complains about permissions then there's nothing the ack-in-project bundle can do because the OS is denying you the ability to write to your preferences file. Your best bet in that case would be to hop onto freenode irc in the #macosx channel and see if anyone can help you diagnose your permissions problems.

  Trev

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  Ed Ruder December 11th, 2008 @ 03:30 PM

  Hmm. Here are my results:

  
  [trunk]$ defaults write com.macromates.TextMate ackTestingPrefs -bool yes
  [trunk]$ defaults read com.macromates.TextMate ackTestingPrefs
  1
  [trunk]$ 
  

  It looks like permissions aren't getting in the way of these commands from the command line. Is this accurately mimicking how the tmbundle is using those commands?

  Ed

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  Ed Ruder February 4th, 2009 @ 11:04 PM

  Problem resolved!

  Self-inflicted--it was related to the problem I started having a few months ago (some apps' self-update feature stopped working). The problem is that I had created a /Users/ed_ruder/.MacOSX/environment.plist file, to get some command-line tools to work well with TextMate, and I was setting the PATH to a bad value. It was good enough to work with TextMate, but it didn't include all of the directories that those apps (and ack-tmbundle) needed--most notably, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and the like!

  Sorry to have wasted your time.

  Ed