Hi Lewis,
you don't need to post three times we all got it the first time but maybe nobody had time to answer.
Lewis Overton schrieb:
I'm trying to learn about writing useful snippets for things I do often. It looks like I need some conceptual help. For example, I use this snippet:
<tr> <td><cite>${1:title}</cite></td> <td>${2:composer}<br /> arr:${3:arranger}</td> </tr> </table>$0
with a tab trigger of </table>
already helps a lot when building tables of works performed. It nicely gets rid of the ending </table> and inserts another set when I press tab at the end of the snippet.
That worked so well I got greedy. I'd like to cause the snippet to force the title be Title Case.
Pardon?
A second interest is an easy way to get rid of the break and the arranger when the piece doesn't have one without killing the ability to use a tab trigger at the end. I can use lots of deletes. Is there a better way.
you can put the br and arranger inside another $ e.g.
<tr> <td><cite>${1:title}</cite></td> <td>${2:composer}${4:<br /> arr:${3:arranger}}</td> </tr> </table>$0
Now you can tab through: title - composer - arranger and with the next tab you'll select the whole br+arranger block and can delete it.
Fascinating tool, TextMate.
Lewy
PS: I'm having trouble getting posts into the list. If this is a duplicate, please forgive me.
Max