Copying bundles from one machine to another is cumbersome and easily forgotten.

I always find myself adding one command to a custom bundle at the office and then forgetting to add it to one of my machines at the house.

Before we begin you will need a Dropbox account. If you don’t already have one you can get a free one here

Once you have Dropbox running you can run these 3 steps in Terminal.app

It is highly recommend to run a backup of your bundles before attempting the steps below.

Step 1. Move to your the folder where the Textmate bundles are located:

$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/

Step 2. Move the Bundles folder to your Dropbox folder:

$ mv Bundles ~/Dropbox/Bundles

Step 3. Create a symlink in the DropBox folder to the “Application Support/TextMate/” directory:

$ ln -s ~/Dropbox/Bundles/ Bundles

Repeat steps 1,2,3 on any machines that you need to sync up.

Recently I started using Textmate for more things then just coding websites since thats bascially the tip of the iceburg then it comes to the most powerful editor on the mac.

If you interested in trying something new with Textmate here are basic instructions to use texmate to compose messages with OSX mail.

1. Make sure you have installed the “Edit in Textmate” Bundle. This is found in “Bundles>Textmate>Install Edit in Textmate bundle.
2. Once the bundle has been installed you will be able to edit your email message in text by hitting the following short cut keys “Control + Command +E” or optionally going to the edit menu in Mail and the very last option will be “Edit in Textmate”.
3. Once you the command has been keyed a blank Textmate text file will be opened.
4. Type your email message and then save. If your done editing the email you can close the Textmate window and you will see your message in message window of the Mail app.

Other Mail features you can with Mail

• Increase quote level “> or shift+.”