<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><meta charset="utf-8"><pre style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Hello,</pre><pre style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Thanks for your reply. This works for stand alone typed variables but on snippets where I have let's say a "while loop" with </pre><pre style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; ">a certain condition as a place holder:</pre><pre style="color: black; white-space: pre-wrap; ">while (condition) ... end while </pre><pre>after I type my shortcut and press the tab, the snippet completes and takes the caret into the (condition) variable where If I type the name that I want and press my shortcut for the macro to add the "$" symbol then TM adds it infront of "while" so</pre><pre style="color: black; white-space: pre-wrap; ">it becomes:</pre><pre>$while (condition) ... end while</pre><pre>instead of:</pre><pre>while ($condition) ... end while</pre><pre> </pre><pre>Any way around this?</pre><pre> </pre><pre>Thanks</pre><pre> </pre><pre style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; "> </pre><pre style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap; ">You can do this by recording a macro. Type a word, then under Bundles on the toolbar, go to Macros and click Start Recording. Press the key combination for 'move to beginning of word' (which is option+left arrow for me), and then press '$'. Then click 'Stop Recording'. With any luck you should have a macro that does 'move to beginning of word' and then 'insert $'. You can do that for all the characters you need, and obviously much more complicated scenarios. Brandon > Hello, > I was wondering if that is possible. The symbol for variable in the > language I > am working on is the "$" sign. > Would it be possible to add this after the word has been typed and have it > added > in the beginning of the word? The same would go for the array symbol %, > strings array "!" etc.. > So I would type "counter" and then decide if I want this to be a variable > or an > array so depending if I type $ or % after that word it would end up being > $counter or %counter > Thanks in advance for any input. > Best, > John</pre></div><div style="color: black; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; position: fixed; "></div> </div></body></html>