<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Selecting text from the right to the left, stopping the selection before the tab trigger does in fact allow for tab triggered snippets with a selection.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">tab_trigger<Selection_end>SELECTED_TEXT<Selection_start></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are a couple of bad things about this. </DIV><DIV>There is no way to know how your selection was made, since you can't see the caret when you have a selection.</DIV><DIV>That, and the TM_SELECTED_TEXT variable isn't available.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Making the TM_SELECTED_TEXT variable work shouldn't be too difficult (I would imagine).</DIV><DIV>But making the caret visible with a selection would really be weird. I'd still like it, but i may be the only one.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">thomas Aylott—</SPAN></SPAN></FONT><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">subtleGradient—</SPAN></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;; font-size: 9px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><A href="mailto:oblivious@subtleGradient.com">oblivious@subtleGradient.com</A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>