I see. So, I agree that using Quick Look wouldn't work for you. I have to say when I tried Sublime Text I found the behaviour you're looking for rather annoying - but of course, that's probably just because I wasn't used to it.
And I still don't see why this is superior to open an file in a tab, copying the parts you need and then pressing command + w to close the tab again. I wanted to suggest that you might want to record a macro which is doing "copy, then close tab" and bind this macro to a keystroke, but then I saw that TextMate obviously doesn't include "close tab" in the macro recording.
I'd probably turn off this feature if it was introduced in TextMate. But I wouldn't mind if it would be added as long as it _can_ be turned off (as you suggested in the first place).
Kind regards, Tobias Jung
Adam Štěpánek wrote (Thu, 8 May 2014 21:00:34 +0200):
Unfortunately that's not a solution. I work a lot with HTML files which means they open up as the actual HTML document in QuickLook and not the source code... Also, you cannot select and copy in QuickLook.
- Adam
On 8 May 2014 at 20:54:31, Tobias Jung (newsgr@tobiasjung.net) wrote:
Adam Štěpánek wrote (Thu, 8 May 2014 19:59:36 +0200):
If you're working on a large project where you actually edit only several files at the time but you need to peek into other files from time to time as well (usually as a one-time look), the tab bar gets full very quickly and it's almost impossible to find there the file you're looking for.
Well, for a peek you always can right-click the file and select "Quick Look..." from the contextual menu. Not the same thing, but maybe sufficient...
Kind regards, Tobias Jung