Uses plutil or defaults to view binary property lists #2
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If plutil is available, use it to convert the property list to XML format and then insert a warning to the user, either using perl if it is available, or else using bash's (much slower) regex engine. If plutil is not available, fall back to pretty_plist (TextMate's standard behaviour).
If XML representation is not possible because plutil is not available, use the defaults tool to get an old-style property list. Only use pretty_plist as a last resort, since it produces invalid output anyway.
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The XML is probably the only safe representation, if the goal is to be able to save the property list again (and not lose data), although strictly speaking, XML cannot contain control characters, but that might not be enforced. Using XML though would limit the usefulness of this command, but there is of course ⌃⇧H to get to the ASCII representation. Thoughts? |
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Since you've already implemented your own version of some of these changes, I will close this PR and submit new ones based on the current code. 🙂 |
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Since
pretty_plistcan produce invalid output, it makes more sense to useplutilto create a legible version of a binary property list file, or even justdefaults, and to fall back topretty_plistonly as a last resort.