[TxMt] Re: Dot completion for triggering bundle command

[Allan Odgaard]

On 24 Jan 2017, at 3:24, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> In TextMate it’s possible to set the key equivalent of a bundle 
> command to a dot, the problem is that the dot will then not be 
> inserted in the text. It’s also possible to manually write out a dot 
> in the bundle command. The problem with that is that the dot is not 
> actually in the text buffer when accessing it in the bundle command. 
> This will most likely not work because whatever is parsing the source 
> code to generate the completion expects the dot to actually be there.

One could do the completion command separately, then a macro that 
inserts a dot and run the completion command.

> Is this something that can be implemented in TextMate, perhaps as a 
> semantic class? Ideally it should be configurable to support any 
> character, ideally more than one. Example, for many languages a dot is 
> what’s needed, but for the C, C++ and Objective-C an arrow (->) 
> would be necessary as well. Just to be clear, I’m only talking about 
> a new way to trigger a bundle command, not implementing the actually 
> completion.

I do have a note about supporting “trigger patterns” which would 
allow this, these would be basic regular expressions, so you could also 
have a command trigger on certain “behaviors”, but the use-case list 
I have for this feature is very limited (despite sounding powerful), 
which means it’s not that high on my list, but it is there.