Hi all,

I recently joined a small Java development team. Everyone here is using Eclipse, and I'm the only TextMate user. They're all ganging up on me, trying to make me switch to Eclipse. And I must say they do have a point: For Java development, Eclipse is simply a more productive environment than TextMate. It can do some truly amazing code completion and refactoring acrobatics, and debugging is simply a matter of setting a breakpoint and hitting the Go button. The complete feature list is here:

http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/tips/jdt_tip...

Now, I realize that TextMate is an agnostic text editor and not a Java IDE, so I can forgive the lack of debugger integration. And some of the simpler code completion stuff might be replicated with the right snippet or macro. But there is one feature in Eclipse of which I am green with jealousy: navigation across source code files.

For example, you can put the cursor over a variable, class name, or whatever, then hit F3 to automatically navigate to wherever it is declared. You can instantly jump from a method invocation to its implementation, for example. You can also easily navigate across complex class hierarchies, jumping from a class definition to its parent, then its grandparent, and so on.

This is so much quicker and easier than anything TextMate provides for project navigation. The closest thing I could find was TmCodeBrowser, but it only works on a single file. It's kind of useless for projects like mine with several hundred classes.

Have there been any attempts at creating a TextMate bundle or plugin that would allow the kind of source code navigation I'm looking for? If not, does anyone have some suggestions on how I would go about writing my own? (It would be nice to have some kind of generic framework for this feature, since it would apply to almost any language in TextMate, not just Java.)

Trevor