[TxMt] Re: exclude snippets from menu

[Henrik Nyh]

Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
> 
> On Mar 30, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Henrik Nyh wrote:
> 
>> Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>>> On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>>>> well, I personally like to have tab completion, I can't see how this
>>>> would work without having the command names as a snippet.
>>>>
>>> Yes, tab completion is indeed nice and I like it too, unfortunately 
>>> there is no easy way to have both worlds.
>>
>> I reckon I'm misunderstanding you, but just in case: a command can be 
>> triggered by a tab trigger (like a snippet), and output its results as 
>> a snippet.
> 
> You are misunderstanding me, this would still require a different 
> command for every tab trigger. I am talking about a single command, that 
> would have to be activated on tab, receiving as input the current word, 
> and looking up the word in a hash/dictionary and inserting the 
> appropriate snippet in. 
> ⋮
> Problem is that this effectively takes over the tab key and effectively 
> disables all tab triggers. Hence we have to use another shortcut for the 
> command, which makes it a bit unnatural since one is used to trigger 
> these things via tab.

Thanks for explaining.