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| ttwi | Posted on: 2/17/2008 6:20 am |
Just popping in   Joined: 10/7/2007 From: Posts: 3 |
AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio "snippet" function in visual studio and many other IDEs saves a lot of time while programming, I really hope EmEditor would have a decent plugin which implements the same function.
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| jonhutch24 | Posted on: 3/6/2008 5:32 am |
Just popping in Joined: 3/3/2008 From: Posts: 10 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio I second that motion. This kind of functionality would make EmEditor nearly invaluable to me as a programmer.
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| jonhutch24 | Posted on: 4/23/2008 6:01 am |
Just popping in Joined: 3/3/2008 From: Posts: 10 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio Ok what I would REALLY like is tab stops in the snippets. That's my request! :)
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| Yutaka | Posted on: 4/23/2008 8:05 am |
Webmaster   Joined: 9/28/2006 From: Redmond Posts: 2401 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio Quote:
I am not sure what you want. You can use \t as a tab character.
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| jonhutch24 | Posted on: 4/25/2008 6:46 am |
Just popping in Joined: 3/3/2008 From: Posts: 10 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio Sorry, let me show you an example
Let's say I make a snippet and it looks like this (this is just in theory): if $con1$ = $con2$ then $expression$ end if Now when I run the snippet I'd like $con1$ already highlighted so I could just write over it, and when when I hit the tab key, it would move to $con2$ and highlight it so I could write over it, and when I hit tab again it would move to $expression$ and highlight it so I could type over it. So my typing would look something like this: Run the snippet var1 -> TAB -> 23 -> TAB -> writeline("It's 23!") and the text editor in the end would have: if var1 = 23 then writeline("It's 23!") end if does this make any more sense? Sorry, I'm not very good at explaining things some times...  |
| Yutaka | Posted on: 4/25/2008 7:59 am |
Webmaster Joined: 9/28/2006 From: Redmond Posts: 2401 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio Quote:
Yes, that makes a perfect sense. Thanks!
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| jonhutch24 | Posted on: 4/25/2008 12:13 pm |
Just popping in Joined: 3/3/2008 From: Posts: 10 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio Another request for the snippets, is text expansion.
Take my last example for instance: The snippet is: if $con1$ = $con2$ then $expression$ end if It would be nice if I could assign a command to type (in this example "ifstate") and type something like: ifstate -> TAB And then have the snippet put the entire snippet in with $con1$ already highlighted. Not sure if this interferes with any of the other systems already in place, but it would be SUPER useful instead of having to go back and forth to the snippet pane. :D Thanks for the great product! |
| jonhutch24 | Posted on: 4/28/2008 6:54 am |
Just popping in Joined: 3/3/2008 From: Posts: 10 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio YAR! (Yet another Request)
Along with everything mentioned above, the ability to complete multiple tab stops by naming them the same and only typing over one. Example (since I suck at explaining things): I have the snippet: while $var1$ = $answer$ continue msgbox("The user answered:" & $answer$) end while so when I fire it up (maybe by typing "mywhile" and hitting tab ;) ) I type something like this: userAnswer -> TAB -> "Forty two" -> TAB and the string "Forty two" is put in both places where $answer$ is so in the end it looks like: while userAnswer = "Forty two" continue msgbox("The user answered:" & "Forty two" ) end while Does this make sense? I know I'm asking a lot from this snippet plug in. But it's a VERY useful feature when doing a lot of repetitive coding... Thanks so much for your input and time!  |
| blackhawk | Posted on: 4/28/2008 7:02 am |
Not too shy to talk  Joined: 2/13/2008 From: Posts: 34 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio I agree. So long as when you replace the first one, it does all the rest, then moves to the next tag.
Second me on this one! |
| jonhutch24 | Posted on: 4/28/2008 7:43 am |
Just popping in Joined: 3/3/2008 From: Posts: 10 |
Re: AutoComplete plugin - Please make it closer to the "snippet" function in Visual Studio Quote:
Good catch blackhawk! I knew I was forgetting something in that last example. Yes, it would need to move on to the next unaltered tag when you hit tab.  Edit: I just realized that this thread may not be the best place to do this. This thread (I believe) was started in regards to the autocomplete plugin. My requests are more snippet plug-in oriented. If you need us to move this to a new thread, I'll be more than happy to copy and paste (or retype if necessary) everything others and myself have requested the snippet plugin do. |
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