Re: [gedit-list] Code Snippet plugin suggestion

["Hermann Kaser" <hermann kaser gmail com>]

On 11/16/06, Jesse van den Kieboom <jesse icecrew nl> wrote:
> Op donderdag 16-11-2006 om 11:01 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Hermann
> Kaser:
> > The second thing is not so much an inconvenience as a suggestion to
> > improve speed. I've noticed on the screencasts where people use
> > TextMate that they don't get a drop down. Never having used TextMate I
> > can only guess how it works, but it seems that it simply looks at the
> > last word typed, checks through the available snippets and if it finds
> > one that matches the word then it expands the snippet. Again, I don't
> > know if this is how TextMate works, but this seems like a better idea,
> > or at least an interesting option. We could still use the standard
> > ctrl+space to get the dropdown, but we could assign ctrl+enter to this
> > new behaviour.
>
> Hmm, I think you don't know about the <tab> trigger feature of gedit.
> >From what I understand you only use Ctrl+Space to select a snippet from
> the popup dialog. This is not the prefered way to activate a snippet.
>
> In the snippets manager you see that most of the snippets have either a
> tab trigger or a shortcut key. A tab trigger is a little word
> (abbreviation) that when you type it in a document and press <Tab> is
> expanded to the snippet it references. So for example typing:
>
> 'for<Tab>' in a php file expands the for snippet.

I'm not on Linux right now, but if that works how you say it does,
then that's one problem solved :-)

> This is also how textmate works.
>
>
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