[TxMt] embedding snippets; find in macros

Allan Odgaard allan at macromates.com
Fri Nov 12 11:38:53 UTC 2004


On 12. Nov 2004, at 5:08, otheraccount at verizon.net wrote:

> Unless I'm doing something terribly stupid, it seems it's impossible 
> to use a snippet while in another snippet without losing the tab 
> placeholders of the first... Is that right? That'd be sort of 
> disappointing, especially since snippets are part of what makes 
> TextMate elegant and customizable---would that be hard to fix?

It's a current limitation, and it will be improved.

> And a related automating-stuff point: Would it be possible for find 
> operations performed by macros not to wipe out the previous find 
> string?

Most likely, since they already do have a local undo-stack, so probably 
all stuff they tweak should be on a local stack (e.g. also “filter 
through command”).

Kind regards Allan




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