TextMate Ctrl-Escape Shortcut Fix
January 19 2009One of the most important shortcuts in Textmate is Control-Escape, which opens a ‘Gear’ menu with important context-sensitive functions. However, if you turn on the Screen Sharing or Remote Management features of your Mac, you will find that the Control-Escape key combination no longer works. The remote-access applications hijack this shortcut.
To continue using the default Control-Escape shortcut with Textmate, you have no choice but to turn off all of the remote-access applications.
via Textmate: Use Command-Escape as a Shortcut to the Gear Menu.
TextMate stopped responding to Ctrl-Escape for me a while back, and it’s been irritating. I discovered today that this was the reason; I turned off screen sharing, and BAM! the shortcut was working again.