If you wish to activate TextMate from an ssh session you can do so by copying the rmate (ruby) script to the server you are logged into. The script will connect back to TextMate running on your Mac so you should setup an ssh tunnel (as your Mac is likely behind NAT):

ssh -R 52698:127.0.0.1:52698 [email protected]

You can install rmate via gem:

gem install rmate

Updating to latest version can be done using:

gem update rmate

rmate [options] file

Call rmate --help for a list of options. Default options can be set in /etc/rmate.rc or ~/.rmate.rc, e.g.:

host: auto  # prefer host from SSH_CONNECTION over localhost
port: 52698

You can also set the RMATE_HOST and RMATE_PORT environment variables.

For more info see this blog post about rmate.

• Bash by Harald Lapp