This would be much simpler to do with a real snippet, rather than a command. Choose "New Snippet" from the bottom-left of the bundle editor, and then just type "import pdb; pdb.set_trace()" in the big box. This can be tab- or shortcut-activated. Also, I don't really know python, but I'm guessing that you only need to import pdb once per file; afterwards, you can just use pdb.set_trace(). <div>On 4/13/07, Yi Qiang <<a href="mailto:yqiang@gmail.com">yqiang@gmail.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;">Hello, I am a relatively new TextMate user and am still learning all the ins and outs of it, but it certainly is a lot of fun :) When I am doing python development, a lot of times I just want to set a breakpoint in my code, and the way to do that in python is: import pdb; pdb.set_trace() Typing that each time got boring, so I wrote this little snippet for it. I would like some feedback, especially with the way I am figuring out the right indentation level :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/env python # This TextMate command inserts a breakpoint ABOVE the currently selected line # Yi Qiang (yqiang _at_ gmail dot com) import os import sys text = sys.stdin.readlines() line_number = int(os.getenv('TM_LINE_NUMBER')) - 1 # TM counts from 1 spaces = (len(text[line_number]) - len(text[line_number].expandtabs (4).lstrip())) debug_string = (' ' * (spaces)) + 'import pdb; pdb.set_trace()\n' text.insert(line_number, debug_string) sys.stdout.write(''.join(text)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Cheers, Yi -- <a href="http://www.yiqiang.net">http://www.yiqiang.net</a> ______________________________________________________________________ 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>