Thanks, Allan, but that isn't it. First I tried commenting out everything in my .bash_profile except for the alias declarations. When that didn't work, I created a new user account and logged in with that. I still can't use the File/New from Template command. I tried something else. I created a file, test_tm.sh, with the content: <div style="margin-left: 40px;">#!/bin/bash echo #TM_SUPPORT_PATH </div> When I run that from TextMate, I get no output and no error message, just "Program exited with status 0" Should #TM_SUPPORT_PATH have a value? Any other ideas? Richard <div>On 4/1/07, Allan Odgaard <<a href="mailto:throw-away-1@macromates.com"> throw-away-1@macromates.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 1. Apr 2007, at 20:34, Richard Blumberg wrote: > I am unable to use the File/New from Template/Python/* menu item, > or to > create a new file in an open project, by any of the available means > (application File menu, control-click in project drawer, use gear icon > menu). I gather, from following several different Google searches, > that my > problem(s) has/have something to do with the search path that > Textmate is > using to look for the template files [...] More likely that you have a custom bash startup that interferes: <a href="http://macromates.com/wiki/Troubleshooting/Templates">http://macromates.com/wiki/Troubleshooting/Templates</a> -- try e.g. test it using a new user account. ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div>