Question

My textmate suddenly stopped recognizing comments in code and the shortcut for commenting out code (Command + /).

I have found Comments in the Bundle Editor for HTML, but it doesn’t look like I can set an activation key for it or anything.

Does anyone have any experience with this part of TextMate?

cheers!

Answer 1

Maybe it went out of scope? Doesn’t matter what caused it, it’s easy enough to fix.

• Open your Bundle Editor
  ctrl-option-cmd-B

• Make sure that the Menu button at the
  top left-hand side of the Bundle
  Editor displays Show All

• If it doesn’t then click the up/down
  arrow and change it so that does

• Scroll down until you find the
  Source bundle

• Click the arrow to the left of
  Source to display the Bundle contents

• looking at the Source Bundle items
  with green “C”s next to them, find the item
  called Comment Line/Selection

• Click Comment Line/Selection

• In the upper right-hand corner of the
  Bundle Editor, click the Settings
  button

• Next to Activation, select the menu
  item Key Equivalent

• Whatever is in the text box to the
  right, replace it with cmd-/ (with
  your cursor in the text field, press
  the keys “cmd” and then “forward
  slash”

• Verify that the item Scope Selector
  text area is blank–nothing should be
  in there

• Exit the Bundle Editor, Restart
  TextMate, open a new editor window
  (cmd-N) then enter cmd-/ to verify
  that it’s working

This command is not limited by scope so it will work in any context/environment/language, but because it is not limited by scope it can be overridden by a Bundle-specific comment command (e.g., a comment command in the HTML Bundle, so, if after you’ve followed those steps, it’s still not working, you just need to find that Bundle-specific comment command and either fix it (using the steps above as a template) or then use the steps above as a template) or deleting it.

While you’re at it, you might as well fix the command in your HTML Bundle:

from your Bundle Editor, scroll down to the HTML Bundle then click on the Comment item (you said in your Q, you had located it). Click the Settings button on the upper right-hand corner, and verify that Activation is Key Equivalent and cmd-/ is in the adjacent text box. Next verify that Scope Selector is text.html