On 7 Mar 2014, at 14:10, Ross Ahmed wrote:

Is the "New from template² feature still working in TextMate2? If yes how can I create a template?

It is not, for now there are a few ways to get some of the benefits:

To get the boilerplate: Setup a default file type via the project’s .tm_properties, e.g. for TextMate itself I have this:

[ attr.untitled ] fileType = 'source.objc++'

You can also set it globally in Preferences → Files → New document type.

Thus when pressing ⌥⌘N (New Tab) it will be set to Objective-C++ and one can for example use cl⇥ to insert the “new class” snippet.

Incase we want to split it into two files, pressing ⌘S (Save) and giving it a name like “Foo.{mm,h}” does brace expansion, so the current document is saved as “Foo.mm” and a new tab is opened for “Foo.h”.

Some people liked templates just to start with a file on disk, in which case one can use ⇧⌘N. This creates a new file on disk and brings focus to the file browser where one can then (re)name the new file.