Hi all!
Can anyone tell me why this isn’t working?
<snippet>
<content><![CDATA[
\begin{itemize}
$TM_SELECTED_TEXT
\end{itemize}
]]></content>
<tabTrigger>im</tabTrigger>
<scope>text.tex.latex</scope>
<description>Enclose in itemize</description>
</snippet>
It’s not putting my selected text within the itemize environment, it creates the environment but puts no text in it… If I implement this with a keyboard binding instead, it works fine!!
Am I doing something wrong?
I don’t think anything’s wrong with your snippet, but, to my knowledge, what you want to do isn’t possible. The $TM_SELECTED_TEXT variable won’t be available when you fire off the snippet by its tab trigger. I’ve never used Textmate, so I don’t know whether it does that.
but there are plenty of other snippets already in ST2 which make use of TM_SELECTED_TEXT. This can’t be !!
Then maybe I’m not understanding what you want to do. Can you give an example of a snippet that does what you’re saying?
e.g. the javascript if else snippet. (Packages\JavaScript\if-___-else.sublime-snippet)
<snippet>
<content><![CDATA[if (${1:true}) {${0:$TM_SELECTED_TEXT}} else{};]]></content>
<tabTrigger>ife</tabTrigger>
<scope>source.js</scope>
<description>if … else</description>
</snippet>
From what I understand,
If i type ife and I have previously selected some text, it should put the text somewhere in my if statement.
This isn’t working!! I can’t make any example like this work! (yes, i have set the syntax as javascript)
I can only make it work as you describe by inserting the snippet from the api:
view.run_command('insert_snippet', {'name':'Packages/JavaScript/if.sublime-snippet'})You re right, I tried it right now and it works. So the other way doesn’t work for you either? Maybe it’s not supposed to work like this then?
thanks for your help !
Thanks very much sublimator, that was really informative and helpful!!
I had to change the formatting a little though, I don’t know why, it would report errors, even in the syntax highlighting. (this JSON thing is not very reader friendly, to a non-programmer anyway)
Anyway, it works perfect now !! Thanks again!