Allow CSS and JS editor styles to be symlinked files (for use with iCloud)

[daviddarnes]

I have a work and home Mac and both of them I have MarkEdit running. I would like to make some slight presentation adjustments using the editor.css and editor.js customisation options, however I'd also like them to sync to my other Mac using iCloud. I've validated that I am able to customise the CSS using the correct file, but when I replace it with a symbolic linked file (so I can keep the original file in an iCloud directory called MarkEdit/Settings) the files are ignored.

I see that other symbolic files are being used so maybe these could accept them as well? Alternative is to just set Documents/Data directory as an iCloud folder, however that will be a bit of a confusing name. If there's an alternate path let me know! Thanks

[cyanzhong]

Thank you for the feedback. I am not sure if symbolic files are going to work, but I would like to take a look.

[daviddarnes]

Thanks! If there's another path I would love to know. Very happy editing the presentation using CSS and JS and would just like to utilise existing syncing options (iCloud) to keep the UI consistent across devices

[cyanzhong]

I see what's happening now, we have two issues here:

• When a path is symlink, we need to find its original content
• As a sandboxed app, the app only has access to user selected files

For #1, I will make a change to support this scenario. For #2, I will make another change to allow user grant access to an external folder.

[cyanzhong]

@daviddarnes I am making #538 to resolve this, also added a section in wiki: https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit/wiki/Customization#leveraging-symbolic-links.

[daviddarnes]

OH wow that was fast, thanks so much @cyanzhong! Looking forward to testing it out 👍🏻

[daviddarnes]

Looping back here to say this works exactly as expected. Thanks for adding!