On Oct 4, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Jason Moore wrote:

Hi,

I'm a new to textmate and loving it so far. i have a couple of questions that i've saved up after my first week of use that i was hoping someone could help me with:

• i find that snippets make it easy to add text - but i'm not so

sure how to modify existing text. e.g. i find i am always commenting out code in css, so i added this snippet (and bound to a key):

/* $TM_SELECTED_TEXT */

great! ok, now how would i remove comments? (or even better, how to toggle comments on the current line?)

Did you try command-/? ;) It's Comment Line / Selection in the Source bundle.

• hard-wrap: i know textmate doesn't support this out of the box,

but with vi i always used "fmt". so here's my command which i bound to a key:

fmt << ___END___ $TM_SELECTED_TEXT ___END___

this isn't ideal (what if the text has ___END___ in it? fmt barfs on non-ascii, and i always get an extra newline.) is there a better way?

Does control-Q help at all? That's Reformat Paragraph in the Text menu.

I believe you can change the command above to:

fmt <<< $TM_SELECTED_TEXT

• some snippets show a series of options, which you cannot select

(they just get erased when you start to type.) what's the idea - just a simple reminder - or am i using it wrong? e.g. in the css bundle:

list-style-type: ${1:none/disc/circle/square};$0

Yes, it's intended as a reminder.

why not just make 4 snippets - so then you get the popup and can choose which one? (so i could hit '1' instead of typing in 'none'.)

You could certainly do that. It will probably be a lot of snippets though, if you are going to expand them all.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II