On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:09:43 +0100 Oliver Marks oliver.marks@gforces.co.uk wrote:
* On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 11:10 +1000, Russell Dickenson wrote:I wonder if it's possible to insert in multiple places within a snippet the same string? For example, I have a snippet which inserts some HTML code that refers to an image and I use the description of the image in two places within the same snippet. As I understand the manual, you insert "%cursor%" anywhere that you want the cursor to jump to so that the user can insert text. If I enter a title for an image in my example snippet I would prefer to have that also inserted elsewhere in the same snippet.
This sounds very useful would be something i would like to see but to expand a bit what about parameters ie %arg1% %arg2% a dialog could then be dynamically generated for the input if needed and the results placed in the generated snippet.
It would be nice. I have one more suggestion: new %selection% parameter for current selection. It will make sense when used together with snippet keybindings. For example, some users may find it useful to create HTML snippets like s=<strong>%selection%</strong> and assign keybindings to them. Gedit provides this functionality via $GEDIT_SELECTED_TEXT [1] (though I must note that Gedit snippets are generally more powerful than Geany's as for today). Currently I don't feel the need for such functionality myself (for me, HTML editing is already comfortable enough with tag autocompletion enabled), but recently I received a private mail from another user who talked precisely about that.
[1] http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins/Snippets
It would also be nice if we could have snippets in the snippet file over multiple lines because some of mine are very long so it makes it hard to spot where i need to put in changes.
-- Best regards, Eugene.