Compiling with TextMate produces incorrect result

[jacob-carlborg]

Compiling a coffee script file with TextMate (Compile and Display JS) gives a different result compared to compiling with coffee on the command line. This happens if I insert raw javascript with backticks and the javascript code is invalid. For example:

<% if @autoload %>

The above will be compiled into an empty expression ending with a semicolon.

[jashkenas]

Huh? did you mean:

`if @autoload`

That compiles into this for me, using Compile and Display JS:

  if @autoload ;

[jacob-carlborg]

No I meant <% if @autoload %> and I see now that the backticks are not displayed. I'm inserting Ruby on Rails template code and compiling the CoffeeScript file to a Ruby on Rails JavaScript template file (.js.erb). This is working fine using the command line but not in TextMate. I think it's the <% and %> that is causing the problem.

[jashkenas]

Gotcha. The command was using TextMate's "Display as HTML" ability, and wasn't escaping angle brackets in the output. Here's a patch that should fix your problem:

http://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script-tmbundle/commit/3cc7839e9d03e7d02790bd2e004bd52151ddf3f1

[jacob-carlborg]

Thanks.