On 6 Nov 2007, at 20:25, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
I think your best bet is to create a snippet. You could set it with key equivalent ", and have it do something like: "`$0"'. There are variations on this of course.
There is a thread with a command that does this: http://lists.macromates.com/pipermail/textmate/2006-October/013553.html
And for the records, it is not default since `"…"' is only one of several local quoting styles in LaTeX, and having ` auto-insert it by default will conflict with people who use the ` character differently.