How to add TextMate to my PATH on Mac?

My TextMate installation includes Terminal Usage... item in the Help menu, that allows me to install a symlink in a directory of my choice, the default being /usr/local/bin. This seems to be the preferred way to do this, as it is accessible from within TextMate itself.

In TextMate2, the option is located under TextMate » Preferences… » Terminal.

mate is actually a utility that comes with TextMate. It is located at /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate. The easiest way to add it to your path is to create a symlink to it:

ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate ~/bin/mate

Then add ~/bin to your path by adding the following line in your ~/.profile:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

More details can be found in the TextMate Manual. Info such as this:

Mac OS X comes with an open shell command which can be used to simulate a double click from within Terminal. It can also perform an Open With… operation by use of the -a argument, e.g.: open -a TextMate . will open the current folder in TextMate (as a scratch project).

This standard command has a few shortcomings: it can only open one file at a time, it cannot open a document at a specific line and it cannot “stall” the shell until the file has been closed, which is useful e.g. when using an editor to write something like a subversion commit message.

For this reason TextMate comes with its own mate shell command, which supersedes the open command. For usage instructions you can run mate -h (from Terminal).

you can add to your path in osx with the following command:

echo 'export PATH=YOURPATHHERE:$PATH' >> ~/.profile, replacing "YOURPATHHERE" 

obviously replacing 'YOURPATHHERE' with the path you need. This will add it to your profile so that every time you log it is set.

You can also check out the TextMate wiki: http://wiki.macromates.com/Troubleshooting/TextMateAndThePath