Dr Nic

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:

1. 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.
2. Click the magnifying glass
3. Select ‘Key equivalent’

And here’s a picture:

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