Wim Leers Freelance Drupal Developer

Is it also for you a routine to look up the documentation for Drupal hooks at api.drupal.org?
If you also use TextMate and are sick of having to command-tab to your browser to get to the documentation, then you'll have a much better alternative in about 15 seconds.

Go to Bundles > Bundle Editor > Show Bundle Editor. There, click the plus-button in the bottom left corner to add a new command. Set the input to None, the output to Show as Tool Tip and the scope selector to source.php. Copy/paste the command below and assign a shortcut -- I use CTRL + D.

If you now place the cursor above a Drupal core function and press the shortcut, you'll be presented with a direct lookup of that function at api.drupal.org. Better even, if you place the cursor on a hook implementation, e.g. mymodule_menu, then you'll get the documentation of hook_menu. Note that your file must be saved for this to work (and it must be named according to Drupal conventions, i.e. mymodule.module).

Add these lines to your ~/.bash_profile if you're using the Bash shell:

Now you have three new commands at your disposal:

ddiff

Usage: ddiff patchfile.patch, creates a patch file.

dhead

Usage: dhead, checks out Drupal HEAD in the current directory.

dupdate

Usage: dupdate, updates the current directory recursively.