[TxMt] Overloading the tab key

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Rob McBroom wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Steve King wrote:
>
>> Anyone have suggestions on how overload the tab key without losing  
>> what it already does?  I'd also accept some way of binding tab  
>> triggers and snippets to some other keystroke.
>
> I'm thinking you should set TextMate to use "Soft Tabs" with 8  
> spaces and then use some Snippet or Command trickery to make it  
> insert an actual Tab when you hit the ⇥ key from the beginning of  
> a line.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to set "beginning of a line" as a  
> Tab Trigger, but perhaps you could modify the relevant language  
> grammars to have a "beginning of line" scope or an "empty line"  
> scope and have a Snippet or Command with a Key Equivalent of ⇥  
> that inserts a literal Tab only in that scope.
>
> I say "Snippet or Command" because I'm not sure which is best here.  
> When Snippets containing actual Tabs are used, the Tabs are usually  
> replaced according to your preferences. There may be a way to  
> escape the Tab, or some hidden XML property that can be manually  
> added to the Snippet to prevent this behavior. Otherwise, you might  
> need a Command.
>
> ---
> Rob McBroom
> <http://www.skurfer.com/>
> I didn't "switch" to Apple... my OS did.

Or you could just make a simple snippet that insets a real tab character
	and set it to use option-tab
Then you just have to always remember to hit option-tab for a real tab

thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors

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