Auto auto-complete in TextMate

Question

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.

Answer 1

Install the TextMate bundle "GetBundles" first

I believe these two terminal commands will do it:

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
svn co http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Review/Bundles/GetBundles.tmbundle/

Then, in TextMate, press Ctrl+Cmd+T (this should be a very familiar shortcut) to bring up the window of bundles that are valid in your current scope. Type 'get bundles' or 'getbundles' and press enter when you are on the right bundle. This opens a window to search a bunch of repos for bundles. In the upper right is a search box. Enter 'CSS'. There are 5-6 CSS bundles available, I would try them out and see if one fits your needs.

TextMate doesn't have that kind of that kind of code parsing built in to the core but I know of at least one bundle (the PHP bundle, now included with TM) that does it.