Here is what I have done so far.. I downloaded Allan's Ruby pastie from
http://pastie.textmate.org/20239
Created my small snippet activated using <esc> with save = nothing; input = selected text or word and output = insert as text.
That seems to works for me.. guess later I could choose which scopes I want this to work for me...
(It seems to use the tm_dialog thing that was introduced recently, which frankly I had not yet gotten to look at, but which seems to be paying dividends already)...
I guess this is obvious to the superusers but just wanted to bring it up to anyone who might have been as baffled as I was.
I will investigate Aylott's extension when I get the time..
danstan ps: BTW, since I am posting mail in TM, this also overcomes failure for the word completion to work within MAIL itself sometimes (for whatever reason).
Another route in the meantime is to get Aylotts subtlegradient bundle which displays the action at a screencast he sent out about month ago - but which I had missed..
http://subtlegradient.com/articles/2006/10/30/english-word- completion-for-textmate-screencast
Will see if it works out for me..
(he Thomas mentions Alan pastie - where is it implemented within the system?) Can I just include that pastie in the bundle preference?
thanks again
danstan