From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T21:32:49+09:00
Subject: Re: I need to learn...

On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:28 AM, 7stud 7stud wrote:

> Morton Goldberg wrote:
>> the tab key is the key used to
>> complete code snippets.
>> ...if you highlight the two lines
>>
>> foo = bar
>> zot ||= []
>>
>> and hit cntrl-shift-W, inserts the code snippet
>
> I don't get the digit gymnastics that most text editors require you to
> perform to use auto completion.  Is there no way to bind the auto
> completion to the space bar in TextMate?  If you've never coded with
> space-bar auto-completion, you haven't lived!  The type of auto
> completion I'm talking about seems like such a simple feature to
> implement: you have a flat text file with a list of character  
> sequences
> and the corresponding code(phrase, name, whatever), and then the  
> typing
> the characters plus hitting the space bar produce the code.

Morton was showing an unusual TextMate example above.  Typically in  
TM you type a sequence and push tab.  For example, try these in TM:

ea-tab
inj-tab
ase-tab

James Edward Gray II