TextMate recover after kernel panic

From the View menu, select Gutter, and click to uncheck all of the selected view options there, i.e. Foldings, Bookmarks, Line Numbers, and Soft Wrap Indicators. Once all of the above are unchecked, the gutter will disappear.

From the same question asked on SO:

To remap the esc key you have to copy

/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/KeyBindings.dict

to

~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/KeyBindings.dict

and then edit it, preferably using TextMate :) as Property List Editor messes up the codes.

Look for nextCompletion and previousCompletion and replace their values with whatever suits your needs best.

For example, you could replace \033 (code for esc) to ->|tab.