[TxMt] escaping characters (in the document)

[Rob McBroom]

I've read the documentation and done some searching and haven't found  
the answer to this.

For shell init scripts and various other purposes, I'd like to be  
able to "type" characters like ⌃[ or ⌃G. You know, the kind of  
thing you would precede with ⌃V in the Terminal. It seems that Cocoa  
has a key binding for this (NSQuotedKeystrokeBinding, which is ⌃Q by  
default), but it is used for another purpose in Textmate. Has the  
functionality been remapped or do I need to try to define it for  
Textmate myself? It doesn't seem to be set…

     rob at kendra ~> defaults read com.macromates.Textmate  
NSQuotedKeystrokeBinding
     2006-11-29 14:47:10.910 defaults[6713]
     The domain/default pair of (com.macromates.Textmate,  
NSQuotedKeystrokeBinding) does not exist

On a related note, I'd like to be able to "see" these characters as  
well, or perhaps toggle them of and on (with ⌥⌘I ideally). Texmate  
is better than most Cocoa apps, as it seems to display a space in  
place of such characters instead of nothing at all, but I'd like to  
know what that space represents. Has anyone tried enabling  
[NSTextShowsControlCharacters][] in Textmate? I'm guessing there  
would be undesired side-effects.

Should I have asked these questions before Allan took off? :)

[NSTextShowsControlCharacters]: http://developer.apple.com/ 
documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/ 
chapter_9_section_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000468-610689

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Rob