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

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Jacob Rus wrote:

> Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Bertrand Landry-Hetu wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Actually (as I learned today), turns out it does.  But it's case  
> sensitive.

Yes, and if there are more than one available completions it just  
selects the first one. You also can't see all options on multiple  
available completions.

> Also, typing / or ~ is easier than cmd-shift-g
>
> -Jacob

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College