Auto auto-complete in TextMate

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Dachande663 picture Dachande663 · Oct 27, 2010 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

I've recently switched to TextMate from Coda after getting annoyed by the long delays and general slowness of the app. There are a few annoyances in TM but it's mainly because I'm used to one over the other. One aspect that is driving me nuts however is the lack of automatic auto-complete.

For example, in a CSS document in Coda I could begin typing fo and Coda would pop up a list of font-style, font-weight etc. Selecting one of these would then show available properties, bold, light etc, again selectable. In TextMate I've begun using the Bundle auto-completition shortcuts but they're pretty useless as you have to type practically the whole thing for shorter snippets.

Is there any way of making TextMate replicate Coda's behaviour of automatically suggesting as you type? If not, are there any other editors that do (BBEdit?)? Thanks.

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Henrik picture Henrik · May 26, 2013

Pressing escape autocompletes for you. At least nowadays. Maybe it's not as seamless as one would like, but it works.

TextMate has a simple yet effective completion function on ⎋ (escape). It will complete the current word based on matches in the current document. If there are multiple matches, you can cycle through these by pressing ⎋ continuously. It is also possible to cycle backwards using ⇧⎋.

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