Use BBEdit 9 as text editor in the Terminal

Matsaki · #1 January 31st, 2009, 08:02 PM

Before I could just type "$ bbedit file" Now I tried reading and installing instruktions from google but it don't work.

Any help pls.

Thanks,
Mats

ElDiabloConCaca · #2 January 31st, 2009, 08:13 PM

From within BBEdit, there should be a command to "Install command-line tools."

Failing that, check your path and make sure it contains the path to your BBEdit binaries.

Matsaki · #3 January 31st, 2009, 08:15 PM

Sorry, I did not say that it's the files on my server that I try to open in BBEdit. And the command line tools is installed. It works on local files but not from the server that runs Ubuntu 7.10.

ElDiabloConCaca · #4 January 31st, 2009, 08:32 PM

Are the binaries located in /usr/bin? (bbdiff, bbedit, etc.)

Matsaki · #5 January 31st, 2009, 08:36 PM

Yes

ElDiabloConCaca · #6 January 31st, 2009, 09:40 PM

If the binaries are in /usr/bin (bbedit, bbdiff, etc.), and /usr/bin is in your $PATH shell variable, then there shouldn't be any problem.

What happens if you type "bbedit" in the Terminal without giving it a filename? Does it report that that's an invalid command, or does it invoke the command-line bbedit program (which will simply do nothing, other than allow you to type text)?

Matsaki · #7 January 31st, 2009, 09:47 PM

I get:

Quote:

user@www:~$ bbedit
-bash: bbedit: command not found

But let me clarify again that it works on my computer lovally, but not when I SSH in to my server with Ubuntu.

So there must be something to install or config on Ubuntu maybe?

simbalala · #8 January 31st, 2009, 10:33 PM

It's not possible (I'm pretty sure). When you're logged into the server via ssh you're talking to the server. How is the server supposed to know what bbedit is? What the command means?

I tried it long ago for fun, knowing full well it wouldn't work.

Just use ftp, if you use BBEdit's projects feature it will open a ftp file in a flash. Add it to the project.