Greg Benedict

This is just mind blowing to me. I already use Textmate to take notes, draft posts, etc., so this just speeds up my workflow.

You can also edit any Mac text field in Textmate using the an input manager that comes with textmate.

Here are a few things to make it better.

• Go to Tools -> It’s All Text! -> Preferences
• The default path is /usr/bin/open. It will use the default editor for text files, probably TextEdit. If you hit command i when you select a text file in finder, you can change the default program that opens it.
• If you don’t want to change your default, you can have it call an executable shell script. You can’t directly call TextMate.app due to restrictions.
• Set a hot key. I use command option e, the same as for editing a mac text area.