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Mastering Sublime Text

You're reading from   Mastering Sublime Text When it comes to cross-platform text and source code editing, Sublime Text has few rivals. This book will teach you all its great features and help you develop and publish plugins. A brilliantly inclusive guide.

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849698429
Pages 110 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dan Peleg Dan Peleg
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Mastering Sublime Text
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Installing Sublime Text FREE CHAPTER 2. Code Editing 3. Snippets, Macros, and Key Bindings 4. Customization and Theme Development 5. Unravelling Vintage Mode 6. Testing Using Sublime 7. Debugging Using Sublime 8. Developing Your Own Plugin Index

Understanding your first snippet


We learned that snippets can be very helpful, so how about creating our own? We'll make an awesome HTML snippet, better than the one in the preceding example. First, let's have a look at how snippets work in more detail.

How do snippets work?

Snippets can be saved under any package folder, but we'll start with saving our snippets under Packages/User. Snippets must live in a Sublime package.

File format and syntax

Snippets are simple XML-formatted files with the extension sublime-snippet. The root XML tag will always be <snippet> and will then contain the following:

  • Content: This tag represents the actual snippet.

    • If we want to write $, we'll need to escape it with \$.

    • For indentation, use tabs only. If the translate_tabs_to_spaces option is set to true, tabs will be transformed to spaces automatically when the snippet is inserted.

    • The Content tag must contain the <![CDATA[…]]> section. Snippets won't work if we won't do it.

    • Also, the Content tag cannot...

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