Parameters to snippets

[notuo]

I made some snippets, for example: one that add a div with a class. The snippet ask for the class name and works very fine. In this example I like to (without typing twice the class name) produce the following code:

<div>
</div> <namefortheclass>

Actually I can produce just this (without typing twice the class name)

<div>
</div> <!-- -->

So, I am asking for some of the "old DOS" parameter passing like %0, %1 in the definition of the snippet.

Do I made myself clear?

Regards

[syrupcore]

I've wished for something similar a few times. There are many times when you want what the snippet has asked for in two places. I think the second situation Nutuo is asking about is one that I run into a lot - adding a wrapping div and wanting to add a comment to the end, saying it's closed like:

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<div id="foobar">

</div><!-- /end foobar -->

To do this now, you've got to enter "foobar" twice. Certainly not a big deal but if the software could do it for you, I wouldn't mind.

Another common situation for me is wrapping something in tags. I have a shortcut with this in it:

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before:<%[Enter Tag]%>
after: </%[Enter Tag]%>

So I type "blockquote" or "abbr" twice. If the second variable could be auto populated with the data from the first, it would a be a little faster and, more importantly, it would reduce the chance for typos.

The snippets library is so great. It makes my workmates jealous.

Will

[notuo]

Exactly my point.

Cheers

[syrupcore]

had another situation this evening where auto repeated variables in snippets would have made my life a little better. I was doing massive select lists and spent an hour typing stuff like:

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<option value="foo">Foo</option>
<option value="bar">Bar</option>
<option value="another">Another</option>
<option value="andanother">Andanother</option>
<option value="andandanother">Andandanother</option>
<option value="andandandanother">Andandandanother</option>

Webuilder not having this feature is not a big deal to me at all. Just sharing an example of where it would be useful in my work.

Will

[notuo]

Karlis.

I like to see your opinion on this.

Regards

[Niels Matthijs]

I want to second this request.

Especially when working with forms this feature would be extremely useful. Check the following code:

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[label for="id"][input type="text" id="id" name="id"]

That's a lot of ids, and a lot of room for typos. It would be incredibly handy to have to type the id only once. The snippets are great already, but this would make them extremely powerful.

[Gatis]

Actually we have this in our to do list.
So, it is not "if" but "when"
We have still some time till next major version, let us hope we manage to make some improvements here.

[notuo]

Good to hear this.
Thanks