<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Apparently, looking deeper into the TM manual it appears there is a way to do this at:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/preferences_items#completions">http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/preferences_items#completions</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Haven't figured it out yet - it mentions though that what I was requesting should be the default (?) ... If so, does seem to be the case for me.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Another route in the meantime is to get Aylotts subtlegradient bundle which displays the action at a screencast he sent out about month ago - but which I had missed.. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0020E4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2006/10/30/english-word-completion-for-textmate-screencast">http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2006/10/30/english-word-completion-for-textmate-screencast</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Will see if it works out for me..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(he Thomas mentions Alan pastie - where is it implemented within the system?) Can I just include that pastie in the bundle preference?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>thanks again</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>danstan</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:34 AM, <A href="mailto:xolela@mac.com">xolela@mac.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mail has this thing where by when you are typing and you are not sure of the <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>spelling of the word (or even if<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>such a word exists) you can press <esc> before yo complete the<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>word & it gives you a pull down of various choices.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is this something that can be incorporated in the text scope of textmate?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(note: i know of ctr-apple-D which can check for the word in<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>dictionary but that is not the functionality I need in this case - ie, since that assumes you already know how to spell the word...)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">danstan</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ps; interestingly the Mail functionality doesnt<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>seem to work within a sentence.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">______________________________________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For new threads USE THIS: <A href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>