I’ve done what I think has been some reasonable investigation before posting this. Moderators, feel free to correct me on this 😉
I’m a longtime Macbook user and I interface with the OS primarily from the Terminal command line. I recently started a new job where I was issued a fairly locked down M3 but I have managed to install a few free tools on it, and I’ve installed a version of SlickEdit that I purchased on my own dime.
On all previous macs, I was able to set an alias to the SlickEdit executable and it would open a file and SlickEdit to the foreground/focus:
alias vs='/Applications/SlickEditPro2022.app/Contents/MacOS/vs '
On this Mac (Sonoma 14.7 (23H124)), opening a file this way works, but it does NOT bring the SlickEdit window to the foreground/focus.
I have another alias, “open .” which opens finder in the directory I am in in Terminal and it fails in the same way, not bringing the window to the foreground.
alias exp='open .'
Here is my OSX about:
Advice?
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