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blah['name|'] So, now what do I do???

I think a nice new feature here would be to allow the null-action of "tab" to be to jump over any auto-created paired-chars. Then we could just tab out of the nest and carry on. It must be very seldom that users want a real tab character inside paired-characters.

I have disabled Auto Pairing in preferences and have defined several commands like the next one for () pair. I feel it more intuitive and coherent: you have a kind of snipped only when you are writing under the assumption you are are inside pairs but you must ask for it apart the usual ( character that is yet there. _For me_ is very stupid to need to delete the ) char so frequently because you usually are re- touching code, not writing it down like a literary work...

#!/usr/bin/env ruby if ENV['TM_SELECTED_TEXT'] == nil print '($1)$0' else $s = ENV['TM_SELECTED_TEXT'].to_s.gsub(/(?=[$`\])/, '\') print "(#{$s})$0" end

--- Command (Opt-Cmd-8, from old Mathematica), Use Selected text of nothing, insert as a snipped

Then when you want a single (, use (.. and when you want a (|)| use the command.