[TxMt] Re: How can TextMate be so popular???

[Hans-Joerg Bibiko]

On 12 Mar 2007, at 21:26, Rick Gigger wrote:

> Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Jacob Rus wrote:
>>> Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>>>> On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Bertrand Landry-Hetu wrote:
>>>>> Sorry for continuing this thread. Cmd-O, Cmd-Shift-G will give  
>>>>> you a
>>>>> tab-completed textfield where you can type the path of the file to
>>>>> open. Works in any Mac app that uses the standard open file  
>>>>> dialog.
>>>>> Not quite what you wanted (2 keyboard shortcuts vs 1 key), but  
>>>>> close.
>>>> That's far from ideal since it doesn't offer you tab completion  
>>>> on files and directories, as the terminal does.
>>>
>>> Actually (as I learned today), turns out it does.  But it's case  
>>> sensitive.
>> Yes, and if there are more than one available completions it just  
>> selects the first one. You also can't see all options on multiple  
>> available completions.
>>> Also, typing / or ~ is easier than cmd-shift-g
>>>
>
> It actually would be pretty cool to have a nice "open by path"  
> command with good auto-completion.
>

I use my File/Path Completion tmCommand mentioned in http:// 
article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.textmate.general/18072 to open a file.

Just type in a TM window 'mate ', invoke that tmCommand, and finally  
press CTRL+R. It works fine for me. See also the screencast.

Hans