I'm trying to maximize my use of textmate. One of the first things I'm doing is looking through the ruby bundle to see what snippets I can use. I first noticed the hash key/val snippet, which starts with a colon.
The first thing it does is highlight the key so that I can type in a new key.
The next thing it does is highlight the sample string so that I can type in something different. However, I'm having trouble typing something in at this point. If I want to edit the string inside, is there a key I can type that will put the caret inside the quotes? If want to edit the string contents, I have to move my cursor over then back. If I start typing, it erases the quotes. If I type quotes, it surrounds the quotes in another set of quotes. Is this behavior there because the snippet writer assumed I would not always want to put strings in the hash buckets? This is understandable, but as a shortcut for creating symbol/string combinations it is actually quite tedious.
I figured maybe I was missing some secret keyboard shortcut that would put me inside a fresh set of empty quotes instead of the sample that is highlighted.
Thanks, Carl