On Oct 14, 2004, at 21:59, profprof@mac.com wrote:
This sounds like an elegant solution. It would give much more flexibility to the system. As was suggested by somebody on the Wiki page, this could be combined with a classification.
I believe the above mentioned suggestion was made by me, so I should comment on it further.
So, if in Latex, I want to generate a table, I type:
table[tab]If I wanted to include an HTML snippet in Latex mode, then I might type:
html:table[tab]If the command is not found in Latex, and only in another mode, then it is found without having to specify the type.
Ideally the 'joiner' character between "html" and "table[tab]" in the above examples should be a single key stroke, rather than the ' : ' which is a two-key keystroke. Although looking through the keyboard I don't find many good candidates.
The way I see things, perhaps wrongly so, is that each user can create their default bundle that contains all the common language syntax files that they use on a regular basis.
In my case these would primarily be: HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript
So in the Snippets folder - and Snippets editor window - there would ideally be a sub-directory/grouping called: HTML => for html based snippets PHP => for PHP related snippets CSS => for CSS related snippets JS => for JavaScript related snippets
Since the HTML syntax file is the host file - that embeds the other language syntaxes - this would be the default syntax for a .html file, and TM would (hopefully) know what mode we are currently in where the cursor is, and therefore by typing:
table[tab]
while in HTML mode would collect the "table" snippet from the HTML directory/grouping, even though we may have a snippet by that name in each of our sub-dirs/groupings.
IF we for some reason would wish to override the default action, then we can type:
PHP:table[tab] or <groupingID>:< snippetName>
My ideal scenario would be to have a structure something like the following:
Snippets/ /HTML/ /div/ header = basic HTML snippets footer sidebar
/PHP/ /div/ header = basic HTML & PHP snippets footer sidebar
If we had the above we would type:
php:div:header to collect the header snippet in the div grouping in the php grouping.
Why would I want to have it like this ?? Well, I have found that developing web sites I use similar snippets of code but with varied elements inside, so by having the ability of having multiple snippets in sub-groups we can have a snippet group for each type of project we are working on. In one project we may use a simple header div with just a simple logo text in there, whereas in another project we might have a lot more information in there.
Just my 2 pence worth : )
Kind regards,
Mats