I’ve been playing a lot more with Coda 2 upon purchasing it since its initial release a couple of weeks ago. While I had been teetering on purchasing version 1 last year, I held off on anticipation of the version 2 release. In the meantime I played with Sublime Text 2.
While I’m certainly no coding ninja I did find Sublime Text 2 a little difficult to undertake all my grasshopper coding stuff. In most cases I found 4 pieces of software open for my workflow:
- The Sublime Text editor itself (where all the coding action happened)
- Terminal (where I would interface with the server)
- Panic’s Transmit (if needed when uploading images, etc.)
- The browser (to check everything was working)
During this time I wore out my ⌘-Tab keys a lot!
Thankfully, when Coda 2 was released I jumped at the opportunity and bought straight away. All the things I have open in my Sublime Text 2 workflow were now all rolled into one nice neat piece of software.
However, upon using it more I did begin to ask myself the question: How can I open files from the command-line in Terminal and have them opened in Coda 2’s text editor?
For example, if I run the command:
$ coda test.jsI want text.js now opened as a tab in the text editor, and if text.js hasn’t been created or doesn’t exist in the current working folder then create it.
After scouring the internet for a while I stumbled upon Noah Frederick’s shell script code and slightly modified it to allow what I wanted in my Terminal. Here’s what I did to get it to work:
- Open up Terminal and navigate to your home directory (generally
cd ~or wherever your.bash_profilefile is)
$ cd ~- Edit your
.bash_profilefile by copying and pasting the code found below – I usually do quick edits in Terminal by using:
$ nano .bash_profile| #!/bin/sh | |
| # Coda from the command line | |
| # Version 1.0 | |
| # | |
| # Open Coda or open files in Coda from the command line | |
| # | |
| # (C) Noah Frederick 2011 <http://noahfrederick.com> | |
| # | |
| # Version 1.1 | |
| # point codapath to Coda 2.app | |
| # make coda default editor with open command | |
| # create alias for 'coda' | |
| ###################### CONFIG ###################### | |
| # Path to Coda.app | |
| codapath="/Applications/Coda 2.app" | |
| #################################################### | |
| # make default editor | |
| export EDITOR="$codapath -w" | |
| # create 'coda' alias | |
| alias coda=open_with_coda | |
| # open_with_coda (): | |
| # Open any number of files with Coda.app | |
| # Files that don't exist will be created | |
| open_with_coda () { | |
| for arg in "$@" | |
| do | |
| if [ ! -f "$arg" ] ; then | |
| touch "$arg" | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| open -a "$codapath" "$@" | |
| } | |
| # open_coda (): | |
| # Launch Coda.app | |
| open_coda () { | |
| open "$codapath" | |
| } | |
| # display_help (): | |
| # Show a helpful usage message | |
| display_help () { | |
| echo "usage: $0 [--help|-h] [<file> ...]" | |
| echo | |
| echo '\t--help|-h show this message' | |
| echo '\t<file> file will be opened in Coda.app' | |
| echo '\t (omit to launch Coda.app)' | |
| echo | |
| } | |
| #################################################### | |
| if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then | |
| case "$1" in | |
| --help|-h) | |
| display_help | |
| ;; | |
| *) | |
| open_with_coda "$@" | |
| ;; | |
| esac | |
| else | |
| open_coda | |
| fi |
- Save your
.bash_profile - Restart your .bash_profile with the command:
$ source .bash_profile- Test your code by opening a file and then creating a file – hopefully it all works!