What are some useful TextMate shortcuts? [closed]

Answer 1

Look up property specifications in W3C: CONTROL + H

This works for both HTML and CSS. Place your carrot over whatever property you'd like to look up and press CONTROL + h. This will open a new window listing the W3C info.

For example, place your carrot over background:

body {
  background: red;
}

Hit command + h and you'll see something like:

Answer 2

Titleize selected text: CONTROL + OPTION + U

Will turn:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit.

Into:

Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet, Consectetur Adipisicing Elit.

Answer 3

(these are mostly html-related)

• cmd + option + closes current open html tag
• shift + cmd + w wrap selection in tags
• ctrl + return insert escaped line end, i.e. \n or <br> depending on the occasion.

Answer 4

Format CSS: CONTROL + Q

Select some CSS and press CONTROL + Q to turn this:

body { background: red; font-size: 10px; color: black; }

Into this:

body {
  background: red;
  font-size: 10px;
  color: black;
}

Answer 5

Eliminate all whitespace / carriage returns between the location of your caret and the start of the next piece of content: SHIFT + CONTROL + J

For example, if you have:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip.

Place your caret at the end of the first paragraph and press SHIFT + CONTROL + J to remove the space in between the paragraphs:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip.

Answer 6

Control-T(ControlT): Transpose (works in most Cocoa-native text fields and areas, but TextMate enhances the behavior).

• Place your caret between two characters, hit ControlT, and the characters switch places (this is standard Mac behavior). Awesome for typos.

• Select a word or series of characters on a single line, hit ControlT, and the characters in the selection will now be reversed (not too useful, but this is a TextMate enhancement)

• Select a series of characters that spans more than one line, hit ControlT, and the lines will reverse. Characters within the line will still be in order. Most useful when selecting whole lines, but still works with partial lines selected, just so long as there is at least one newline character selected (TextMate enhancement).