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Updated Textmate WordPress Bundle

Well, I’ve finally updated the WordPress bundle from the previous release. In this bundle I’ve included some fairly neat snippets. Almost all of them are wrapped in the brackets. Below is a screenshot of what snippets the bundle contains.

Why are these snippets helpful?

Textmate snippets enable you to tie lengthy, complicated strings of code to a tab trigger, so in each of these snippets, you only type something like url and hit tab and (for this example) Textmate would spit out .

Here are just a few reasons why snippets are so helpful:

1. Syntax is correct; This is actually the biggest reason. If you’re not extremely familiar with PHP, it’s pretty easy to make mistakes. Using Snippets helps you to avoid those mistakes.
2. Less typing; For the above example, only three characters and a tab are needed instead of many.
3. Complicated, sometimes cryptic blocks of code are easy to employ, without having to remember anything but the tab trigger.

By the way, if you have a Mac, textmate is a killer text editor. I’ve tried a bunch…and it’s well worth the 40 bucks.