# Possible to implement Textmate key shortcuts in RadRails?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 16, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/possible-to-implement-textmate-key-shortcuts-in-radrails/57930 "2006-04-16T14:32:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/possible-to-implement-textmate-key-shortcuts-in-radrails/57930/1 "2006-04-16T14:32:20Z")

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The Rails demo videos is a great showoff on how productive Textmate  
editor  
is. The 15 minute build-a-blog example should be twice as long if there  
had  
been no keyboard shortcuts in Textmate.

Unfortunately, I use windows and thus RadRails. Does anyone know how to  
implement the same keyboard shortcut into RadRails?

Sebastian F. made an overview of the keyboard shortcuts:

[http://feldpost.com/lighthaus/textmate\_rails.pdf](http://feldpost.com/lighthaus/textmate_rails.pdf)  
(via [blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/03/10/rails-cheat-sheat-for-textmate/](http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2006/03/10/rails-cheat-sheat-for-textmate/) )

If somebody had the time and knows RadRails/Eclipse better than I do,  
I’m  
sure that all RadRails users would benefit from the productivity gains.

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**Author:** ![Jesper\_RSSSSnn-Jens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@Jesper\_RSSSSnn-Jens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jesper_RSSSSnn-Jens)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/possible-to-implement-textmate-key-shortcuts-in-radrails/57930/2 "2006-04-16T23:22:20Z")

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> Unfortunately, I use windows and thus RadRails. Does anyone know how to  
> implement the same keyboard shortcut into RadRails?

doesn’t radrails do snippets by now? if for some reason it still doesnt,  
you could check out rails.el fmr emacs.basically theres a lot of 2 char  
shortcuts that you type then they expand and move the insertion point to  
the right place. i havent used textmate but it seems similar to what ive  
seen in the screencast.

don’t be discouraged to delve into the land of emacs - for the first  
5-years the only keystroke i knew was ctrl-x-ctrl-s (save). mainly i use  
it beacuse nobody else gets tab-indent right. about 50% of editors even  
have some kind of ‘emacs-style’ indent-mode in the prefs, but it isnt!

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**Author:** ![Jesper\_RSSSSnn-Jens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@Jesper\_RSSSSnn-Jens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jesper_RSSSSnn-Jens)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/possible-to-implement-textmate-key-shortcuts-in-radrails/57930/3 "2006-04-16T23:24:52Z")

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> doesn’t radrails do snippets by now? if for some reason it still doesnt,  
> you could check out rails.el fmr emacs

heres a nice build of emacs if youre on windows:

[http://www.crasseux.com/emacs/emacs\_bin\_cvs\_2005\_04\_16.tar.bz2](http://www.crasseux.com/emacs/emacs_bin_cvs_2005_04_16.tar.bz2)

i really have a sneak suspicion radrails has snippet support though. you  
might want to ask in their freenode IRC channel… #radrails