On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Steven McDonald <mcdonald@triumf.ca> wrote:
<snip> Am I missing something or is the a easier way to use the find and replace in textmate, without having to bring up the dialog box all the time. seems a lot of key strokes with shift cmd, option, tabs, returns etc compared to my familiar
       s/regex-find/replace/g


Not exactly what you're looking for (no regex) but handy and dialog free:
1. cmd+e to load the find buffer
2. type your new text
3. select it
4. cmd+shft+e to load the replace buffer
5. ctrl+cmd+f to replace everything (add shift to limit the replace to a selection)