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Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

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Re: Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

#11

Post by gr3g »

ajross wrote: post #7

What a bizarre packaging choice: bash/curl command to pull a shell script to pull and compile a github project which compiles and installs a Text Mate plugin. Yikes.

1) This installs EGOTextMateFullScreen plugin (https://github.com/enormego/EGOTextMateFullScreen). I didn't write it and author didn't put a package out.

2) URL Shortening? I didn't have time to write the CSS to format my code on the page. The long links breaks the layout

3) How does it matter how its done as long as it works, especially when I spent more time responding to your comment than writing that script.

Re: Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

#15

Post by msbarnett »

epochwolf wrote: post #8
ajross wrote: post #7

What a bizarre packaging choice: bash/curl command to pull a shell script to pull and compile a github project which compiles and installs a Text Mate plugin. Yikes.

rvm and pow.cx also do this.

That's a little different, pow.cx and rvm are running installer scripts to get other scripts into place on your system and add them to your .bash_profile.

This is having you run through a bunch of rigamarole to download and compile source for a plugin, and then triggering textmate to install said plugin, when you could achieve the same effect by distributing the binary plug-in and having the user double-click it.

Re: Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

#16

Post by jarin »

jasontan wrote: post #2

awesome, thank you. now if only we could do split panes...

This might sound kind of trivial, but the lack of split panes (and no hope on the horizon) is what finally pushed me over the edge to learning vim. Haven't looked back :)

Re: Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

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Post by msbarnett »

gr3g wrote: post #11
ajross wrote: post #7

What a bizarre packaging choice: bash/curl command to pull a shell script to pull and compile a github project which compiles and installs a Text Mate plugin. Yikes.

1) This installs EGOTextMateFullScreen plugin ( https://github.com/enormego/EGOTextMateFullScreen ). I didn't write it and author didn't put a package out. 2) URL Shortening? I didn't have time to write the CSS to format my code on the page. The long links breaks the layout 3) How does it matter how its done as long as it works, especially when I spent more time responding to your comment than writing that script.

> How does it matter how its done as long as it works

Executing unknown scripts hiding behind obfuscated URLs is generally not considered a good idea.

Given that this is a very non-standard and decidedly odd way of distributing a TextMate plug-in, a large degree of skepticism is warranted.

Re: Text Mate Fullscreen on Lion

#20

Post by sdfjkl »

Piping things from curl into bash is about the dumbest thing you can do security wise. Except if you also use an URL shortener, which means that in addition to trusting the author not to be evil, you're also trusting the shortener service to deliver what you (or the author) expected.
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