On 20 Jul 2007, at 13:45, Mat Schaffer wrote:

At a high level, I'm trying to give our developers an easy way to use textmate to do svn commits with our company-mandated log template.  Snippets seem like a good way to accomplish this.

Just to check – you know about Edit in TextMate, right? Bundles → TextMate → Install “Edit in TextMate”…
With that installed you could simply ⌃⌘E tpl⇥