How to customize Mac TextMate keyboard shortcuts with a “copy current line” command?

Question

I would like to be able to click on a line of text without selecting it, and use a keyboard shortcut to copy all text on the current line. Is this possible? If so how?

Answer 1

Closest thing to that is ⇧⌘L followed by ⌘C.

Answer 2

Don't know if this helps but another useful one is Ctrl+Shift+D which will take the current line and duplicate it right below.

Answer 3

To have that in all standard text views, create ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict that looks like:

{
    "^~c" = ("selectParagraph:", "copy:"); // ⌃⌥C
}

For more info, see Cocoa Text System.

Some of TextMate's text editing shortcuts are defined in a similar property list file at /path/to/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict. Modifications should be made to a copy in Application Support as usual.