Hello,

Thanks for your reply. This works for stand alone typed variables but on snippets where I have let's say a "while loop" with 

a certain condition as a place holder:

while	(condition)
...
end while  

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

it becomes:

$while	(condition)
	...
end while

instead of:

while	($condition)
	...
end while

Any way around this?

Thanks

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