[Geany] Snippets - support for variable values in multiple places?

[Jean-Daniel Bonjour]

On Wed May 11 10:30:31 UTC 2011 Eugene Arshinov wrote:

 > 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.


Yes, I spoke privately with Eugene about such a useful feature to be 
implemented in Geany. (This would allow me to give up with Gedit).


Another way to solve my problem would be to define a user-Keybinding 
executing a sequence of Geany or user Keybindings, in this case the sequence 
of the  following keybindings :
   <ctrl-X>     (to cut the selection)
   <ctrl-alt-S> (to insert HTML tags)
   <ctrl-V>     (to past the clipboard between 2 tags)

with the snippet :
     strong=<strong>%cursor%</strong>
and the Keybinding :
     [Keybindings]
     strong=<Ctrl><Alt>s


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Best regards,
Jean-Daniel