Hi,

I have to write much XSL stuff. I use among others the snippet collection of Andreas Schöller (BTW thanks for that). He was so kind to add information about the valid values of parameters.

example: Snippet ou => <xsl:output name="" encoding="utf-8|ASCII|US-ASCII|iso-8859-1|utf8|KOI8R|cp1251" indent="no|yes" use-character-maps="mapping1 mapping2" method="text|html|xml|xhtml" />

As usual I can use TAB to jump to each ${n:} token. Now my question: Would it be possible to convert e.g. the token 'text|html|xml|xhtml' into a pull-down menu?

I tried it this way: After pressing TAB TM highlights 'text|html|xml|xhtml'; I invoke a command:

`echo -en "$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" | ruby -e ' require File.join(ENV["TM_SUPPORT_PATH"], "lib/dialog.rb") words = STDIN.read().split("|") print words[(Dialog.menu words)] '`

and I can choose what I want. After that, of course, I cannot use TAB to navigate through the snippet any more, unfortunately.

I also tried a snippet like:

<xsl:output method="${1:`echo -en "text|html|xml|xhtml" | ruby -e ' require File.join(ENV["TM_SUPPORT_PATH"], "lib/dialog.rb") words = STDIN.read().split("|") print words[(Dialog.menu words)] '`}" encoding="${2:`echo -en "utf-8|ASCII|US-ASCII|iso-8859-1|utf8| KOI8R|cp1251" | ruby -e ' require File.join(ENV["TM_SUPPORT_PATH"], "lib/dialog.rb") words = STDIN.read().split("|") print words[(Dialog.menu words)] '`}"/>

In principal this works and the TAB behaviour isn't disturb but I have no visual feedback what I'm typing while the menus popping up and the TAB mechanism starts at token 1 which I already entered.

Would it cost much effort to implement such a behaviour? Meaning if I press TAB and within the new selection occurs a given delimiter (here | ) or tag or what ever that the snippet parser will show this selection as pull-down menu automatically without distroying the TAB mechanism. And, would it make sense as a global snippet feature?

Regards,

Hans