[wingide-users] double-clicking on mac to open file

[Wingware Support]

Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote:
> Sometimes, on a Mac, I have a Python file
>
> /that/is/buried/in/some/deeply/nested/path/filename.py
>
> I might be in Emacs looking at that file, and I wish I could open it with:  open -a wingide
>
> Or, alternately, I wish I could double-click on the file and have it open in Wing IDE.  In Emacs dired mode, I have a silly function od that opens the current directory in the Mac Finder, which is how I'd get to something deeply nested quickly in order to double-click on it.
>
> (defun od ()
>    "Open current directory (Mac)"
>    (interactive)
>    (shell-command "open ."))
>
> I find that if I use any of these techniques, or the command-line scripts I found in:
>
> /Applications/WingIDE.app/Contents/MacOS{,/bin}
>
> WingIDE will start up, but the file I want to look at hasn't been opened, requiring me to go digging for it.  I was wondering if someone has found an elegant way of doing this.
>
> The only other thing I can think of is copying the value of (buffer-file-name) in Emacs to the pasteboard so that (hopefully) WingIDE can pick it up in an open-file dialog as a paste.


If you pass the file name to 
/Applications/WingIDE.app/Contents/MacOS/wing it should be opened.  You 
can also pass --reuse or --new to force reusing an existing instance of 
Wing or opening a new one.  Is that not working?

Also, these may be of interest:  http://wiki.wingware.com/OSXHelpers

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Stephan Deibel
Wingware | Python IDE
Advancing Software Development

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