README.md

“Go Here in iTerm2” handler for BBEdit

This is a little helper script for BBEdit to make View > Go Here in Terminal use iTerm2 instead of Terminal.app. You can't simply give BBEdit iTerm2's bundle ID directly because iTerm2 doesn't respond to the open instruction from BBEdit, for unknown reasons.

It's based on this pastebin which in turn was based on rwilcox/open_here.applescript. It differs from both of these in that it will open a new tab in the frontmost iTerm2 window if there is one, rather than always creating a new window.

To install, open the .scpt file in AppleScript Editor. Run it to check it works, if you want. Then File > Export…, choose File Format "Application", and tick "Run-only".

You'll get an application called “Go here in iTerm2.app”. Put this somewhere suitable. /Applications/Utilities is a good choice.

Then from the command line issue this command:

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit TerminalBundleID -string "com.apple.ScriptEditor.id.Go-here-in-iTerm2"

If you changed the filename, you'll need to replace com.apple.ScriptEditor.id.Go-here-in-iTerm2 with whatever the new bundle ID is.

Go here in iTerm2.scpt

-- based on http://pastebin.com/MSPZWWAj
-- which was in turn based on https://gist.github.com/2006738
-- but will open a new tab in the current terminal if one is open, rather than always creating a new terminal

tell application "BBEdit" to set theFile to file of document 1
tell application "Finder" to set theFolder to (container of file theFile) as alias
set theUnixPath to POSIX path of theFolder

tell application "iTerm"
	if exists current terminal then
		set theTerm to current terminal
	else
		set theTerm to (make new terminal)
	end if
	tell theTerm
		launch session "Default"
		tell the last session
			write text "pushd \"" & theUnixPath & "\" && clear"
		end tell
	end tell
	activate
end tell