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eftychia at 03:33am on 2010-07-11I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8 on a G4 processor.
I may or may not already have Terminal running.*
I want to double-click the icon of a text file (with
one of a particular set of filename extensions**) and
wind up with that text file open in vi inside a Terminal
window. I'm willing to have the icon I click be a
'bundle' with the target text file inside it, instead
of clicking the text file directly, if that's what it
takes. I'm pretty sure kinda sure
that if I can pop open a new Terminal window with vi
running inside it from a shell script (or a C program
that uses exec() or system()), I can get a GUI event
to invoke that. But so far, I haven't found a way to
pass startup commands to Terminal. If I were to use
xterm instead of Terminal, the trick in a script would
be
xterm -e vi {FILENAME}
but I've not found an equivalent for the Terminal app yet. Anybody out there happen to know how to do this (or know for sure that it can't be done)?
[*] Okay, I almost always have multiple Terminal
windows open, because tcsh gets lonely and I have
to keep it company (*cough*) because even with as
nice a GUI as a modern Mac, I still find the shell really,
really, really convenient for a lot of what I
do. The point is that I'm trying to initiate this
particular event from outside of Terminal and wind up
with something running inside of Terminal.
[**] Just *.abc and *.abp for now (though hey, why not extend it to *.txt and a few others once I get the basic concept working?), so it doesn't have to be able to distinguish text files from others files be peeking at their contents, just check an extension.
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I'm not positive because I haven't got anything I want run when I start up Terminal, but I believe you should be able to set what you like in the .login or the .bashrc or .tcshrc files in your ~ directory ... unless I'm misunderstanding you and you mean what code starts up a new instance of Terminal, in which case I believe that it's
/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal... yeah, that seems to do it, although I don't see how to pass parameters into it. I'm afraid all I set my Terminal to do is start the shell which offers suggested corrections for mistyped commands and so with that working I stopped investigating.
By the way, did you know you can open multiple tabs within Terminal? When I discovered that it was like the whole world changed at once.
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Fortunately, a solution does exist (*whew*), which I just posted a link to.
I knew I could open multiple tabs in the Linux equivalent; I think I'd accidentally bumped into that in Terminal as well ... I don't use that much (despite making extensive use of tabs in web browsers), because I often want to be able to look at multiple sessions simultaneously. But since you've reminded me the feature is there, I should start looking for situations where I don't need to see everything at once, so I can use tabs to save space on my screen. (I really want about six monitors, to see everything I'm working on at once, but that'd make a laptop rather unweildy.)