Now this is just brilliant!

You can, with TextMate, install a ‘Edit with Textmate’ feature into every cocoa application!

This means, with a keyboard shortcut, you can send emails, web forms etc to Textmate, write it, save, close and your back to where you started.

It’s very nice.
Here’s how you install it and do it (I used Mail as an example).

  1. Start Textmate
  2. Close Mail
  3. Under ‘Bundles’ select ‘Textmate’ and then ‘intall “Edit with Textmate”…’
  4. Start mail
  5. Select a message, and press commando+r to reply.
  6. Press ctrl+commando+e, this will bring the email into Textmate.
  7. Write what you like to write, then just save it (commando+s) and close it (commando+w)
  8. And now your back into the email, ready to be send with ‘commando+shit+d’.

This also then works with textareas and inputfields in safari… basically all cocoa apps!