Snippets

To use snippets you need:

• plugin "Snippets" (install from Addon Manager)
• snippet package for needed lexer (install from Addon Manager)

Each snippet has a name (shown in the dialog when Snippets plugin is called) and short id (letters, digits, '_', dot). You can type id in editor and press Tab key: snippet for this id will be inserted into text. You can insert snippets also by choosing in dialog: call menu item "Plugins / Snippets".

Only those snippets are enabled, which are suitable for the current lexer. For example, a snippet may be for lexers "C,C++,Objective C" - it is enabled only when these lexers are active. If a snippet has no lexer property, it is always enabled.

Dialog of Snippets plugin:

Snippets have markers in them. Markers are placed in editor (small colored triangles), and caret jumps to the first marker. Then you type text at this marker and press Tab key, caret jumps to the next marker. Markers may give multi-carets too (if exactly the same text is needed at several places, for example "class name"). While markers are shown, Tab key works specially (it jumps to next marker). After you collect all markers by Tab, Tab key will work as usual.

Snippets for HTML tags

CudaText has preinstalled 120+ snippets for HTML tags. (You still need to install Snippets plugin.) They are enabled with HTML lexer. Just type tag name without a bracket, press Tab, and snippet is inserted. E.g. "a"<Tab> will insert:

 <a href="http" title="Title" target="_blank"></a>

These snippets have markers, so Tab key jumps to the next marker. Last marker is usually placed after the entire tag, ie after ">" bracket.

Snippet Panel

Plugin "Snippet Panel" is preinstalled in CudaText. It gives an alternative way to use short text fragments (only simple ones) in editor. It adds button to sidebar, and command "Plugins / Snippet Panel". When called, plugin shows panel in the sidebar, with a drop-down list of folders, which contain several "snippets". You can double-click snippets to insert them into text (multi-carets are supported).

Preinstalled folders:

• Arrows
• Currency symbols
• Greek alphabet (lower)
• Greek alphabet (upper)
• HTML - Arrows
• HTML - Color names
• HTML - Color names+values
• HTML - Letters
• HTML - Math symbols
• HTML - Special characters
• Math symbols
• Quote selection
• Special characters

Plugin looks for its folders in two places:

• Folder "clips" in the plugin folder.
• Folder CudaText/data/clips, which is absent by default, for custom user folders.

Each snippet folder can contain one or more .txt files, in UTF-8 (no BOM) or UTF-16 (with BOM) encoding. Files have snippet per line, in the form "name=value" or simply "name" (if value missed, it equals to name). Each snippet can be simple short string, or string with ${sel} macro to replace selected text. This allows to quote currently selected text by calling snippets from "Quote selection" folder.