GetBundles

Al3x:

GetBundles is totally sweet. It goes out and checks not just the official TextMate bundle repositories but GitHub as well. Once it’s got an authoritative list of all the bundles out there, it lets you install them with a click. You don’t even need to restart TextMate to make use of newly installed bundles. GetBundles is how you should get bundles.

It’s really weird that GetBundles is so unknown, given that it’s so great. Here’s how you install it the easiest way:

1. Open a new TextMate document
2. Paste this text in it:
   

   mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
   cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
   svn co http://svn.textmate.org/trunk/Review/Bundles/GetBundles.tmbundle/

3. Select all and press ctrl-R
4. Wait until you get a lot of “A” lines in the document
5. Restart TextMate (or do Bundles > Bundle Editor > Reload Bundles) and you now have GetBundles! It’s under Bundles > GetBundles > GetBundles.

Here’s what it looks like:

Just double clicking a row installs the bundle.