using snippets with selected text

[Hondoe]

Hi! I'm a complete newbie with WeBuilder (the latest version) and want to ask a basic question.

I've created several snippets, a feature that I'm coming to love, but I don't know how to get snippets to surround a selected text instead of replacing it.

For example, if I select the following sentence:

I want this sentence to be in purple color

and then run my snippet which begins with -- before the caret:

<Font COLOR="#8000ff">

and ends with -- after the caret:

</FONT>

or another example:

I want to add link code:

I select the text:

click here

and my snippet is, before the caret:

<A HREF="" Target="_blank">

and after the caret is:

</A>

Is there some code or wildcard I can use to get snippets to surround selected text instead of replacing it?

thank you very much.

[Gatis]

Hi,

Actually it must work the way you have described.

Here is what you need to do:
1) Select the text in code editing area;
2) Double click the snippet or call it by the short-cut you have assigned to it;
3) The selected text will not be replaced, but will stay in place, only the Fields "Insert before caret" and "Insert after caret" will be placed inside the code editor before and after the selected text.

If you are doing it somehow differently, then please give us the steps you take.

Kind regards,
Gatis

[Hondoe]

Dear Gatis,

Thank you for responding so promptly.

Actually, the problem is a bit more than I've stated.

I've been using the Control-J hot key to show the list of Snippets, but the list doesn't appear unless I press Control-J when my cursor is on an empty space.

If I press Control-J after having selected text, the text is automatically replaced with one of my snippets (I don't see the list of snippets at all or even have a choice of which snippet it uses).

I don't want to assign a hot key to each snippet (too much to remember) -- I want to use the snippet listing -- and am unclear how else to call the snippet up effectively with selected text.

Help please!

thank you very much

[Gatis]

I've been using the Control-J hot key to show the list of Snippets, but the list doesn't appear unless I press Control-J when my cursor is on an empty space.

The list must appear, if you have assigned a call-word to snippets you use. If there is only one snippet with this call-word, the snippet with this call-word will be automatically inserted. Otherwise you can choose from the list.

Selection will not work with the list you use when pressing Ctrl+J, because it is a different feature - called Code templates. It only tries to insert a snippet based on the word before your cursor. You can learn more about this under Main Menu; Reusing Code; Code templates.

Kind regards,
Gatis