Is it possible to add this snippet feature?

[ogrishman]

There is a feature called Snippet Pipes in e-texteditor (which is a dead project, not sure if there are any people heard of it). It’s a very powerful feature and it can make the snippets almost do anything you want. Below is an introduction on the e-texteditor website (already dead, I saved it on my disk several years ago). I want to if sublimetext can add this feature. Please consider it and I’m sure it will be a fantastic add-on for sublimetext.

[rppn]

Although currently not possible, you can do something similar if you already know the possible completions. Compare:

https://github.com/sublimehq/Packages/blob/master/LaTeX/Snippets/begin{}-end{}.sublime-snippet

[rppn]

Also compare:

[SOLVED] @Snippets: Is it possible to create an alternate placeholder for $SELECTION?

@FichteFoll Thanks!  That works great, and I managed to trim it down for its most basic implementation: ${1:${SELECTION/^$/__PLACEHOLDER__/}}     Here are a few examples for context: [image] <snippet> <tabTrigger>test_Selection_PlaceHolder</tabTrigger> <description>test_Selection_PlaceHolder</description> <content><![CDATA[ Selection_Or_PlaceHolder = "${1:${SELECTION/^$/__PLACEHOLDER_1__/}}" Selection_Or_PlaceHolder = "${2:${SELECTION/^$/__PLACEHOLDER_2__/}}" Selec…

[ogrishman]

Is this possible to be implemented as a plugin? I don’t have any experience with it however I’ll be glad to do some investigation if it’s possible to implement this way.