Excuse me for butting in again. I'm trying to reach a useful level of abstraction here. I, too, would like TM to do everything and then sing me a nursery rhyme in bed. But it seems the TM philosophy, unlike BBEdit or Emacs, is actually closer to the Unix K.I.S.S. principle: use other apps for ftp/ssh access, document validation, tags, etc., and make TM a component in an effective system.
QuickSilver is just one (graphical, top-level) way to do this. The Unix shell is another. This conflict (creeping featuritis vs. good component integration) is not unique to TM, but, as a relative newcomer to the field, a lot of this is yet to be solved.
Me, I prefer the K.I.S.S. approach: leave the complexity of the problem field in the problem field, use a set of simple tools and operations to freely map it out in the solution field, and then solve it.
Just my 2 cents.
Best,
Kamen
On 23/02/2006, at 14:41, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
Kamen Nedev wrote:
You're describing QuickSilver. QS rocks. Absolutely. I'm off to their forums to demand a TextMate plugin. (Ouch, their site is down... nevermind).
With QS you can already access all menus of an application through a custom shortcut.
- Enable advanced features in QS
- Enable Proxy objects (Catalog, Quicksilver)
- Setup a keyboard shortcut under Triggers for Current Application
(Show Menu Items)
Jeroen.
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