Adding a diff command (Mac)

Posts: 4 · ltoews 12 May 2017, 20:34

I'm trying to add a custom context menu item that will call TextWrangler's twdiff program, but I can't get it to work. Any help or a working example would be greatly appreciated. Here's what I've been trying for the command (all on one line):

"Macintosh HD:Applications:TextWrangler.app:Contents:Helpers:twdiff" "%item_path%" "%item_path2%"

Posts: 7285 · Zenju 13 May 2017, 08:44

Why are you using ":" as path separator?

Posts: 4 · ltoews 15 May 2017, 17:55

I copied and pasted the path out of my Dreamweaver preferences dialog, and that's how it was formatted there. I've tried substituting slashes for colons in the FFS custom context menu command line, but still no joy.

Posts: 7285 · Zenju 15 May 2017, 19:10

FreeFileSync expects the native path format. In this case the "Macintosh HD" needs to dropped:

/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/twdiff

Posts: 4 · ltoews 15 May 2017, 22:49

Tried that with and without the leading slash. Still stumped.

Posts: 4 · ltoews 15 May 2017, 22:51

Is there any way to see if there's a logged error message of some sort from FFS when I try to execute that command?

Posts: 7285 · Zenju 16 May 2017, 08:06

Just test the command in the macOS Terminal.

Posts: 2 · toni 11 Nov 2018, 14:11

Attention to the "quotes"!
> these yes "
> these no “

Open with TextWrangler
"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/edit" "%local_path%"

Compare with TextWrangler
"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/twdiff" "%local_path%" "%local_path2%"

Open with TextWrangler

"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/edit" "%local_path%"

Compare with TextWrangler

"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/twdiff" "%local_path%" "%local_path2%"

Posts: 2 · toni 27 Dec 2019, 12:51

Attention to the "quotes"!
> these yes "
> these no “

Open with TextWrangler
"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/edit" "%local_path%"

Compare with TextWrangler
"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/twdiff" "%local_path%" "%local_path2%"

Open with TextWrangler
"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/edit" "%local_path%"
Compare with TextWrangler
"/Applications/TextWrangler.app/Contents/Helpers/twdiff" "%local_path%" "%local_path2%"
toni, 11 Nov 2018, 14:11

I updated from 10.11.6 El Capitan to 10.14.6 Mojave.
Now "Compare" no longer works.
Anyone have a solution?

(FreeFileSync versione 10.18 - 19.11.2019)
(TextWrangler version 5.5.2 (397016)