[TxMt] How can TextMate be so popular???

Charilaos Skiadas skiadas at hanover.edu
Sat Mar 10 00:45:22 UTC 2007


On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Bertrand Landry-Hetu wrote:

> 2007/3/7, tlm <tlm1905 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hit a key and you get a command-line with completion with some
>> halfway-intelligent choice for the desired path (minus the filename)
>> already filled in, which disappears if one hits another key.  Every
>> texteditor worth its salt that I know of has this option.
>
> Sorry for continuing this thread. Cmd-O, Cmd-Shift-G will give you a
> tab-completed textfield where you can type the path of the file to
> open. Works in any Mac app that uses the standard open file dialog.
> Not quite what you wanted (2 keyboard shortcuts vs 1 key), but close.

That's far from ideal since it doesn't offer you tab completion on  
files and directories, as the terminal does.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College







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