It's not really the same, but there is something that achieves the same thing, especially if you do it often with the same patterns, namely snippets. If you define snippets, you can use $1..9 to define text insertion places, which can be skipped between using tab. But you can also use the same variable (say $1) any number of times and the text you type, will be mirrored in each location.

Jeroen.

I came across a similar problem when writing a php command completion tool (http://ian.ardes.com/phpcc). The way I solved it was to write two separate commands, one outputting as a snippet, the other as a tooltip. I then wrote a macro to run both of these commands, and bound this macro to the desired key.

Cheers, ian

On 13 Dec 2004, at 17:24, David Wooten wrote:

Greetings, I'm trying to figure out a clever little trigger mechanism for Running a Command sort of "invisibly". I'd like to assign a certain command to the comma "," key, for example, and yet have the comma appear in the current TM window, thus running the said command whenever I happen in the natural course of events to type a comma ;). Now the closest I've come is to "echo" the comma and send the results to the current window, but of course this also gives me the output from the command which I wish to be discarded. Any takers? Thanks again, David _______________________________________________ textmate mailing list textmate@lists.macromates.com http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate