[I'm copying the list back in on this exchange, since it now includes a full resolution.]

On Jun 28, 2006, at 9:07 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

On 29/6/2006, at 2:37, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley wrote:

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[...] The simple solution: copy KeyBindings.dict to ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/, and optionally merge with my one existing custom TextMate binding (^space => nextCompletion:), and bam -- ^q, ^r, ^u, etc., etc. all work now, where before they didn't.

That would imply that it didn't successfully read the one inside TextMate.app, as it simply merges the various key binding files found, well, with the exception that if one is found in ~/Library/AppSupport/TextMate, the default one is skipped.

Could it be you had a dummy/empty file there?

Nope, I just misunderstood the usage until I read your "well, exception" and double-checked to find:

You can copy this file to ~/Library/‍Application Support/‍TextMate and edit it, this will then take precedence over the bundled file.

in the manual. This is at odds with the normal behavior of ~/Library/KeyBindings relative to the system bindings (it only overrides those it sets -- its mere existence doesn't blow away all bindings), so I somehow missed this, and just had a skeletal set of extensions and modifications in my TextMate user keybindings. Also, using KeyBindingsEditor's built-in "Open TextMate user keybindings" to get an empty Application Support/TextMate/KeyBindings.dict doesn't help matters.

So the simple answer is "RTFM -- very, very carefully."

Thanks. -jrk