Autocomplete in Textmate

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Elliot picture Elliot · May 27, 2010 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

Sometimes I watch screen casts where someone is using text mate.

I'm a rails developer, so these are rails screen casts.

They'll type something like:

def

for example

and "end" will automatically appear underneath.

I do have the bundle for Rails enabled - why doesn't this happen for me?

Thanks!

Answer

microspino picture microspino · May 27, 2010

The file you're editing needs the right extension (.rb in your case) to make Textmate understand the right bundle to use.

What do you see down at the bottom of your TM window? (After Line# and Column#)?

Is that "Plain Text"?

If you see something different from Ruby or Ruby on Rails click on the little up/down arrows on the right of It to open the dropdown list of bundles and select: Ruby or Ruby on Rails.

This way, when you hit TAB after writing "def" It will auto-complete the method creation for you.

You can also check Bundles > Bundle editor > Edit snippets... (then choose Ruby) to see if you have the snippet "def" configured to being fired when you hit TAB (see under Declaration > Methods).

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