[TxMt] Re: key binding blues

Peter Cowan cowan.pd at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 06:21:21 UTC 2007


Kenneth,

Try ⌃⌥⌘K  the 'Show Keyboard Shortcuts' command in the TextMate bundle
might be helpful.  I don't believe it shows commands that have neither
a shortcut nor a tab trigger, but they are in the minority.

HTH

Peter

On 7/29/07, Kenneth McDonald <kenneth.m.mcdonald at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> This is somewhat related but more general. It would be really nice if,
> for any bundle (or for all as a whole) there was some easy way of
> generating a web page or equivalent listing _everything_ in the
> bundle(s). And if the bundle editor allowed authors to associate quick
> textual descriptions of bundles items that (if present) would print out
> along with the bundle dump.
>
> I certainly find that my biggest problem with TextMate is simply finding
> out what is offered by bundles, and how to use those features.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
> Darren Hardy wrote:
> > The main problem with the current setup is that bundles that have
> > keybindings *without* a scope are problematic -- they override my key
> > bindings and are not easily findable. I don't have as many problems
> > with key bindings that are defined within a specific scope because
> > they are easy to find and change. I would prefer that either my key
> > bindings dict override everything else. Or that you change your
> > conventions (in Help 16.4) that any Control+key or Control-Shift+key
> > is reserved for text editing or user's choice stuff.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Darren
> >
> >
> > On 25 July 2007, at 4:32 PM, Jacob Rus wrote:
> >
> >> Allan Odgaard wrote:
> >>> On 25. Jul 2007, at 22:06, Darren Hardy wrote:
> >>>> [...]
> >>>> my question is how do i ensure that my keybindings override
> >>>> everything? for example, TextMate uses ^h in lots of different
> >>>> bundles and i have to hand-edit a dozen different bundles to change
> >>>> ^h to something else. (i thought control- functions were reserved
> >>>> for user stuff?).
> >>> It is, but we mandated that after ⌃H was already in widespread use.
> >>> I am afraid that you'll need to change all the bundles which use ⌃H.
> >>> I am aware that this is tedious, and a future version is likely
> >>> going to provide an alternative.
> >>
> >> For the record, I very much hope that some other keystroke is
> >> substituted for ⌃H in TM2, so that ⌃ + letters can be preserved for
> >> users' personal stuff. :)
> >>
> >>
> >
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