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TextMate Backtracer 1.1
Author: Duane Johnson18 Feb
Added a small feature to the TM backtracer: it will now only load on Mac machines, helping prevent clutter for group projects where there are some Mac/TextMate developers and some non-Mac developers.
If anyone has a good way of detecting if TextMate is being used on the Mac as well, let me know.
4 Responses for "TextMate Backtracer 1.1"
Why don’t you just check for the ‘mate’ unix command?
`which mate` ought to do it.
Nice work - I love the backtracer! I had already added a line to make backtracer only load in development environment, so the OS detecter is a nice touch too.
Seriously, though, if you’re deving on a Mac, and you’re not using Textmate? Something is wrong. There is so much to love and so little to hate (for example the undo functionality. 1 char at a time?)
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