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Bbedit turn off hints7/26/2023 My script was to analyze specificity of my CSS selectors. # ^^^^ this script is in the same folder as npm_paths Now that we have a script to tell us where Node is, we need yet another script to execute the previous script and use those environmental variables to run the appropriate Node. Notice how it sets NODE_PATH and also gives us some good hooks to know both where node and npm is.Īlso notice how we ask npm itself where it installed things, instead of assuming “it must be in ~/.node_modules” Step 2: A shim script ( node_runner) WD-rpw 03-25-2014Įxport NODE_BIN="$NODE_BINARIES_PATH/node"Įxport GLOBAL_NODE_MODULES_PREFIX=$($NPM_BIN config get prefix)Įxport NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH:$GLOBAL_NODE_MODULES_PREFIX/lib/node_modules/ # ^^^^^^^ avoids "npm not in path" errors. # installed via homebrew, MacPorts, NVM, etc, so askĮxport NODE_BINARIES_PATH=$(PATH=$PATH:`dirname $NPM_BIN` $NPM_BIN bin -g) # let user's shell, with config options tell us where npm is. # This could be because of the slightly non-standard way I've installed Node # can install modules there and call them from BBEdit scripts # ensure that NODE_PATH includes our global module folder so people # It's possible that $NODE_PATH isn't defined, and/or we need to So I created npm_paths to set the paths correctly: #!/bin/sh Unless you hard code the module path, and that’s not very charitable. None of this matters if you’re using a binary like coffee, but if you’re in a Node.js script yourself and using require to access a module stored in… well, whereever the Node Package Manager stores modules, you’re going to have a bad time. I have no idea what happens if you install Node via Homebrew or Macports.Īnyway, a 100% sure way to get Node to find your modules is to include them in the NODE_PATH. It’s possible Node wasn’t placing globally installed modules in one of the default places because of how I installed Node (via NVM). But of course where npm installed the modules for me isn’t on that list. Node has a declared list of places it will search for modules. Step 1: A shared script to set the paths right ( npm_paths) Writing a Node program that calls a globally installed module is harder. Modules like Coffeescript are easy to interact with: just call their command line tools. This is easier if the Node module includes a binary. I needed to write some Javascript code to read BBEdit input from STDIN (like you do with a text filter), do a transformation, call the node module and echo that back to BBEdit. In my work I was integrating a node module that I had installed via npm install -g. There are a few people who have integrated Node with BBEDit ( Brent Simmons and Tim Whidden), but these scripts show the basics. Instead, no DNR file is created and my system functions just fine.Today I integrated a Node module in a BBEdit Text Filter I was writing. I was hoping this would result in a correctly named and functioning DNR file being created. The work-around I adopted was to create a folder with this name. However, a few weeks ago, the DNR file began regularly changing its name back to the weird characters and became unusable. Deleting this file and restarting the computer used to create a new, okay DNR file. He writes: "In the past, prior OS 9, occasionally I would find myself unable to connect to anything looking in the System Folder, I would find that the DNR file, or at least the file with that icon, had its name changed to a line of gooblydegook. So far, Nick Chapman is the only reader to report any connection problems associated with this odd renamed file. Sample similarly adds: "If I throw away the MacTCP DNR file, it does return, but corrupted under a mangled file name." If he deleted the file, it returned with the same odd name.Ĭ.K. If I delete the file I get a new one, usually with a different weird name."Ĭraig Cobban's file had such an unusual set of characters in its name that we won't even try reproduce it here. The name doesn't show up in the Finder, of course I had to paste it into BBEdit, turn on Show Invisibles, and use the Show button in the ASCII Table window to figure out what the characters were. He adds that the file was named (an ASCII 2 followed by an ASCII 0). Jerry Kindall found a file that was empty but had the same type and creator as MacTCP DNR (cdev/mtcp). Lynn Rardin writes: "A file appeared with the same icon but named "Command-V" (actually the character generated by typing Command-V)." Several readers, who deleted the file from their Mac OS 9.0.4 System Folders after reading this, had a mysterious result: After a restart, the file returned again but with a different name. We recently covered the issue of the MacTCP DNR file being officially dropped (or not) from Mac OS 9.0.4.
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