Command-line extension

[Kamik423]

It would be nice to open MarkEdit from terminal using a quick command. I mad a custom

#!/bin/bash

open -a MarkEdit.app $1

in /usr/local/bin/markedit. Thus I can easily call it from terminal as markedit myfile.md.
At least for me this is a common use case so I would appreciate an install command line extension button in the settings somewhere that creates this file with 755 permissions.

[cyanzhong]

Thanks for opening this issue, this is an interesting point.

I am not sure if it's feasible for a sandboxed app to create such a file, CotEditor (also sandboxed) requires users to manually link the script (it's written in Python): https://coteditor.com/cot will take a look anyway.

By the way, I noticed that you're the author of Hexer, I used a while ago and quite like your work!

[Kamik423]

Thanks for the compliment! I hope to get to developing Hexer further soon.

i think there is some way to prompt the user to give access to a specific Folder. Then this is non intrusive to users who don’t use the extension and the ones who do know what they are doing

[1024jp]

CotEditor does not provide the Install button for the command-line tool because the reviewer of the MAS rejected it, even though it did not tear Sandboxing.
My strategy at that time was similar to yours; open the open panel to get the permission from the user to the directory to create a link.
Instead, the reviewer blamed the term "Install".
Apple seems to prohibit installing something additionally from apps.
Since it was several years ago, the rule could be changed. However, because of that, I guess it is quite difficult to provide a "Install" button for apps for the MAS.

[cyanzhong]

@1024jp Thanks for sharing! Yeah, I can totally feel the pain of the App Store Review, I was rejected for similar reason for an iOS app, for mentioning "install" or "extension store", etc.

[cyanzhong]

I've decided to close this as I realized it can be as simple as just a shell alias:

alias markedit="open -a MarkEdit"

For those who know what cli is, this won't take too much effort, see: https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit/wiki/Manual#command-line-tool-for-opening-files

Thanks again for the feedback and discussions here!