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The 'initial selection' behavior you want isn't quite possible with tabstops in the current version. My advice instead would be to:

- *not* select any text in the snippet
- get used to hitting TAB once after inserting the snippet

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JeffG

Note: There is a request to have the tabstops auto-select the first tabstop feature within Komodo:
http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=71330

In trigger I get a handle on the Snippet as the variable 'tmpl'. The snippet has the property 'value' IIRC which contains the string of the snippet itself. You could do something like:

var rx = /«/g;
if(rx.test(tmpl.value)) {
    // we have a tabstop
}

That *might* work, I'll dig more into this when I get into the office this morning. Cool idea!

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JeffG

So the code I came up with is:

komodo.view.setFocus();
try {
    komodo.editor.wordLeftExtend();
    var name = komodo.interpolate('%s');
    var snippet = komodo.findPart("snippet", name, "container");
    if(snippet) {
        Snippet_insert(snippet);
        var rx = /(«|\%tabstop\:)/g; if (rx.test(snippet.value)) {
            ko.commands.doCommand('cmd_indent');
        }
    } else {
        var msg = "no snippet found named " + snippet;
        StatusBar_AddMessage(msg,"debugger",5000,true);
    }
} catch(e) {
    alert(e);
}

I was slightly worried that JS's regular expressions would have problems with the '«' chevron character, but it seems to work quite well (in UTF-8, anyway);

Note: I've posted a toolbox package for this here:

http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/trigger-now-tabstop-support

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JeffG

Hello Jeff, thanks for the update.
I just tried this on my Linux machine and it doesn't seem to add the tab, I still need to manually tab. That's with python code and the following snippet :
connect([[%tabstop:toggled]], [[%tabstop:test]])

thanks,

Nat

Sorry, I was using an old snippet to test, it should work now with any snippet that uses tabstops. I've corrected the original code, above, and replaced the toolbox package in the other post.

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JeffG