On 1 Mar 2007, at 03:15, Richard Burford wrote:

It seems textmate has no option to ignore whitespace when searching for text. I used dreamweaver previously and that is where the reliance came from. If there is a way to do this easily I would be grateful for a reply. If I must use dreamweaver then I can do that but I would prefer to maintain the flow in textmate.

Use a regular expression. \s+ matches one or more whitespace characters.