TextMate easter egg: find bundle commands by key combo
I’ve dreamed of the ability to ask TextMate “what frigging bundle command/snippet is being activated by Ctrl+P or Shift+Ctrl+G?” I’ve silently pined for it. (Answer: params[:id] in Rails, and all the Git bundle commands, respectively).
Really I’m an idiot because the correct thing to do is to ask on ##textmate, “is there a way to …?” but because I figured I knew everything about TextMate I just assumed you couldn’t search for bundle commands by their key combo.
I was pairing with chendo and he had obviously stopped listening to me monologuing about how to do TDD with Shoulda and was randomly clicking things on TextMate.
He found the following:
Find bundle items by key binding
Gold.
Updated image
Comments suggest that “what to do” isn’t clear above. My bad.
To get this working, there are 3 steps:
- Press Ctrl+Cmd+To to bring up the “Select Bundle Item” box. This feature of Textmate is awesome. You can enter the text of a bundle item and it will try to find what you are looking for.
- Click the magnifying glass
- Select ‘Key equivalent’
And here’s a picture:
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Nice one!
(Except that binding a command to ctrl + P sucks, as that’s what I use instead of the up arrow key. You know, the emacs-like navigation almost all OS X apps, including TextMate, supports.)
What’s the command to show up this window?
@Miguel - ah sorry. You click the magnifying glass to see the popup menu.
How exactly does one get to this menu? Where’s the magnifying glass? Perhaps a screenshot would help the confused.
@Nick, ok I’ve updated the article on the 3 steps to make this work. Sorry for the hassle.