TextMate Here

That was actually the first post in a series (of two). This one opens a new TextMate window on the selected item (if there’s a single item selected), or the current folder otherwise. This makes the script a lot shorter (that and there being a simple command-line TextMate launcher that I can use).

The instructions are the same as last time; save it as an application somewhere you can find it, and call it “TextMate Here”. Find it with the Finder, copy and paste TextMate’s icon onto it, and drag it up into your Finder toolbar.

If you have TextMate installed someplace strange (or have an old enough one that it doesn’t have the mate command in it) it will break; if this happens, you get to keep both pieces.

Here’s the script:

on currentFolder()
    tell application "Finder"
        try
            return POSIX path of (front window's folder as text)
        on error
            return null
        end try
    end tell
end currentFolder

on selectedItem()
    tell application "Finder"
        try
            get the selection
            return POSIX path of (the result's first item as text)
        end try
    end tell
    return currentFolder()
end selectedItem

do shell script "/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate '" & selectedItem() & "'"

{: lang=applescript }

Feedback, improvements, etc. still welcome.