[TxMt] Question and possible feature request: Dictionary

[Sune Foldager]

On 15/06/2005, at 13.41, Robert M. Zigweid wrote:

> Tiger has a new feature in Cocoa apps.  The dictionary feature.  I  
> had thought that TextMate was Cocoa.

Oh, it definately is :-).

> (To be honest, I haven't looked that closely).  Out of curiosity  
> when I was using the dictionary feature, which is activated with  
> command-control-d, I noticed that it did not do anything.  Is this  
> explicitly disabled in TextMate, or is there a key-binding that I  
> haven't found yet that masks the system key-binding.

The dictionary pop-up only works for the system gadgets such as  
mainly NSTextView. TextMate uses a custom class for text editing,  
and, as I understand, there is not too much documentation out there  
on how to implement this feature yourself.

-- Sune.