TextMate - completion using an external file or file contained in project?

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Published on 2009-10-10T19:26:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 22:03 UTC
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Does anyone know how to get TextMate to search an external file (or even the files contained in a TextMate "project") with which to perform word completion?

I'm coding some stuff on the C64 (using TextMate to write the code) and I have an external file containing labels for all of the hardware registers/kernal routines e.g

VIC2InteruptStatus = $D019

It would be really handy to be able to type, say, 'VIC2I' then press the key for word completion and have TextMate find matches in the external library file. Rather than how I'm having to do it at the moment by opening the library file and copy-paste the register names into my code.

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