Wow, that was beautiful, and it is exactly what I've been looking for lately. I do a lot of text work and snippets have been a godsend for standardizing on data, so I end up manually creating a bunch of temporary snippets. Recently I had posted a request, asking about this particular functionality and thankfully many people responded telling me about the "Scratch Snippet" in the Textmate bundle, which has helped immensely, but it was still limiting when you've only got one register and an odd key combo to initiate it.

PS: many thanks to everyone who chimed in earlier letting me know that the Textmate bundle had that one scratch snippet. I really appreciated it. I was in digest mode and so it was hard to respond to the thread. (no longer a problem though :) ).

---- Brian H binarynomad@gmail.com http://www.binarynomad.com

On Oct 24, 2007, at 5:32 AM, Hans-Joerg Bibiko wrote:

Hi,

I just uploaded the new version 0.903

Download: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~bibiko/downloads/textmate/ TMTools.tmplugin.zip Help: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~bibiko/downloads/textmate/tmtoolshelp.html

"$TMTOOLS" help me

Changes: added: get contentOfWindow added: get/set smartTyping added: get allBundles added: get uuidFor added: get defaultBundle added: get allBundleItems added: do checkUUID added: get bundlePathsForUUID

Regarding to the issue of generating dynamic commands (esp. snippets) I attached an example bundle "SCRATCH SNIPPETS" which contains one command: "Create New Scratch Snippet". This command takes a selection which contains the snippet (last line := tab trigger = name of the new snippet) and installs a new snippet into the "SCRATCH SNIPPETS" bundle (scope is set to the current one automatically, but this can be changed easily). After doing that the new snippet is ready for usage.

Of course, one can also create commands, macros, etc. dynamically ;) [This bundle requires TMTOOLS release 0903!]

A demo movie is here: http://www.bibiko.de/TMscratchSnippet.mov (1.2MB)

Have fun,

Hans

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