[TextMate] Feature - managing the snippets

[profprof at mac.com]

On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 04:45PM, Jan Sabbe <jan.sabbe at student.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:

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>Op 14-okt-04 om 21:44 heeft Allan Odgaard het volgende geschreven:
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>> On 14. Oct 2004, at 21:21, profprof at mac.com wrote:
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>>> It would be most useful if the snippets were only active when their 
>>> respective mode is active. This way, the same trigger could be used 
>>> for various modes and applications.
>>
>> The problem with this is that you wouldn't be able to have general 
>> snippets, and it would require you to set a "belongs to" for each 
>> snippet.
>>
>> I'm not completely rejecting the idea (since I definitely do not think 
>> the current solution is ideal).
>>
>> What I would however propose is, that when multiple snippets match, it 
>> will use the snippet from the same bundle as the current syntax rules 
>> -- if there is none, a menu will show.
>>
>> This should allow for general snippets, and in most cases will solve 
>> the ambiguity.
>>
>> There's still one problem though, for example we have a HTML bundle 
>> which may contain some HTML snippets, but the PHP bundle has a _new_ 
>> HTML syntax file, so HTML (PHP) would _not_ treat snippets from the 
>> HTML bundle with higher priority than any other snippets.
>>
>> Though this would probably be solved when I do style sheets, since the 
>> PHP bundle would then not define the HTML syntax (again), but only 
>> create a new style sheet for the existing HTML syntax.
>>
>> How does that sound?
>>

This sounds like an elegant solution. It would give much more flexibility to the system. As was suggested by somebody on the Wiki page, this could be combined with a classification.

So, if in Latex, I want to generate a table, I type:

      table[tab]

If I wanted to include an HTML snippet in Latex mode, then I might type:

     html:table[tab]

If the command is not found in Latex, and only in another mode, then it is found without having to specify the type.

Normand Mousseau