Sublime Text 2 Service

Question

I'm attempting to make an open in Sublime Text 2 service via Automator.

I am doing this by:

• Running Automator
• Adding a new service
• Adding "Run Shell Script"
• Setting Shell to /bin/zsh
• Entering a command line of: /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl -n $@
• Setting "Service receives selected" to "files or folders"
• Click save

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However, whenever I try to open a folder via right-click > services > "Open in Sublime", a new ST2 window is opened but with a randomly named text file (ie subl stdin N188RN.txt) and it's output is the path of the folder opened (ie: /Users/me/Desktop/project).

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Is there a way I can modify the automator command line to fix this?

Equate

Answer 1

Try setting Pass input: value to as arguments:

Scilla

Beautifully simple. Thank you. – Equate

Answer 2

Enable OSX Mountain Lion Context Menu Launch:

1. Open Automator. Add new service.
2. Search for "Run Shell Script". Drag over to the panel on the right (or double click it).

3. Enter:

   /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl -a $@

4. Set "Pass Input:" to "As Arguments"
5. Set "Shell" to "bin/zsh"
6. Set "Services Receives Selected:" to "files or folders"
7. Save as "Open-in-Sublime".

To use: right-click on a file or folder, and click 'Open-in-Sublime' in the 'Services' menu at the bottom of the context menu.

Enable OSX Mountain Lion Terminal Launch:

1. At the command line enter:

   sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin

2. Then enter:

   sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/sublime

3. ln creates a link. -s makes it a symbolic link.
4. You may need to prefix the command with sudo if it doesn't work.
5. Restart the terminal.

To use:

user$ sublime . [This will open the current folder structure in Sublime]

user$ sublime <filename> [This will open the desired file in Sublime]

Cumuliform

Lots of other tutorials recommend pushing the symbolic link to /bin/subl but your suggestion of /usr/local/bin/subl was just what I needed to get this to work. Thanks! – St

Answer 3

Try setting Pass input: value to as arguments.

And "/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" Path should in double quotes.

Undertone