From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T03:00:59+09:00
Subject: Re: I need to learn...

On Mar 12, 2007, at 8:32 AM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> 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

Actually, the point I wanted to get across was that, for code  
snippets, the user can change from tab-invoked completion to shortcut- 
key invocation (or vice-versa) at will. As usual, I didn't express  
myself very clearly.

Regards, Morton