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open document via command line

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jgc

23 Apr, 2015 08:17 PM

It would be great to be able to open a file via the command line. TextMate lets you
do this via a binary they ship called mate. So you can do mate . to edit the
tree of files in the current directory. Another approach would be to integrate via the
exisitng open command. Either way, this would make a great new feature to an
already great app.
Thanks,

--Jim

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 23 Apr, 2015 08:45 PM

   

   Marked 1 originally shipped with a mark binary, but it became problematic when moving to the app store. Just can just use open -a 'Marked 2' filename.md.

   You can also create a shell alias:

    alias mark="open -a 'Marked 2'"
   

   and then just use mark filename.md.

   Further, there's a URL handler for more advanced tasks like previewing arbitrary text, changing styles, forcing all or individual windows to refresh, etc. This can also be called with the open command.

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