[TxMt] I must be missing something obvious

[Paul Welty]

Thanks for these suggestions. At least I now know I'm not missing too  
much. I, too, would very much like to use the TAB to get to the  
outside of auto-paired insertions. But, I will try Cmd-right-arrow or  
cmd-return for now.

-Paul


On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Timothy Bates wrote:
>>> blah['name|']
>>> So, now what do I do???
>
> I think a nice new feature here would be to allow the null-action  
> of "tab"
> to be to jump over any auto-created paired-chars. Then we could  
> just tab out
> of the nest and carry on. It must be very seldom that users want a  
> real tab
> character inside paired-characters.


On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:33 PM, jeff newman wrote:
> I use command+[right arrow]. They're close enough together on my
> macbook that I barely notice it. Granted, its the exact same number of
> keystrokes as pressing right-arrow twice.


On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Fred B wrote:

>
> On 13 Apr 2007, at 18:41, Allan Odgaard wrote:
>
>> On 13. Apr 2007, at 18:31, Paul Welty wrote:
>>
>>> [...] I guess it's trying to help me. So, I type 'name' and my  
>>> cursor is now like this
>>>
>>> blah['name|']
>>>
>>> So, now what do I do???
>>
>> See “Two useful shortcuts” here: http://macromates.com/textmate/ 
>> manual/working_with_text#auto-paired_characters_quotes_etc
>
> I addition to those two extremely useful shortcuts:
>
>  Most of the time the line is ending after the "]", so using 'cmd +  
> right arrow' or 'ctrl + e' works fine.
> You can also use 'option + right arrow' to go to the start of the  
> next word.
>