i'm doing that from terminal: $ touch ~/.MacOSX/.plist $ ^touch^mate it works fine but i'm extrimely rare need to write to/open from hidden folders so if you need to do it often - yep, option in Save dialog would be good. <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 28, 2007 5:40 PM, Phil Molyneux <<a href="mailto:molyneux@kingston.ac.uk">molyneux@kingston.ac.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> While the File -> Open... dialogue has a button to show hidden files, the File -> Save seems to have no obvious way to save a file to a hidden directory. I was creating an environment.plist file to save in ~/.MacOSX --- my immediate work around was to save the file to the Desktop and use Finder to move the file to .MacOSX --- I have set Finder to show all files using either the defaults command or TinkerTool. A search of the mailing list indicates that Cmd-Shift-G opens a sub dialogue box to the File -> Save dialogue that allows you to type the name of the directory directly but that would seem hard to discover. Is there a preference in Textmate that modifies the File -> Save dialogue to show hidden files ? Phil Molyneux ______________________________________________________________________ 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" target="_blank">http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div>