using $SELECTION variable in snippets

[Ken Ledeen]

Hi All,

Forgive my ignorance.  I would like to create a simple snippet that uses the selected text several times;   For example, if I select “abc” the snippet would produce:

abcLH = {   }

abcRH = {  }

I encountered two problems.  FIrst, $SELECTION was fine for the 1st instance only - not for the 2nd.   It was as if it lost the value after the 1st insertion.

Next, I couldn’t concatenate the $SELECTION with the subsequent text.  I needed to leave a space, or it was interpreted $SELECTIONLH as variable name.

Any suggestions would be much apprepciated

Ken

[Peter Bjuhr]

Hi Ken,

Could you post your snippet? For more complex usage it's probably better to use a Python snippet.

Best wishes
Peter

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[Jakub Pavlík]

Hi,

both using $SELECTION more than once and inserting $SELECTION without surrounding space seems to be impossible with simple snippets. Use a Python snippet instead. (I tried to post a code example, but it seems that Google spam filters consider code harmful and the message was deleted. Let's see if this one will pass through.)

Best regards,

Jakub

[Jakub Pavlík]

Hi,

both using $SELECTION repeatedly and inserting $SELECTION without surrounding space doesn't seem to be possible with simple snippets. Use a Python snippet instead:

-*- python;

text = text + '''LH = { }
''' + text + 'RH = { }'

# snippet ends here

Best regards,

Jakub

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