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

[Rick Gigger]

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> 
> 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
>>

It actually would be pretty cool to have a nice "open by path" command 
with good auto-completion.