On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:44 , trout swim wrote:

this situation revolves around the action of placing a textMate file in XAMPP htdocs.

I suspect your htdocs folder is not owned by your user.

Try ls -l htdocs and see if you are the owner. If not, TextMate needs to escalate to root in order to save to a folder it does not have write access to.

-Alex