Does nppsnippets respect TABed cursor position

[BW2001]

Hello

I have a lot of TABed code and find that the plugin doesn’t respect the initial cursor TABed (or multiple space indent) position for the inserted snippet code -see below. Is there anything I can do to fix this anomaly.

Before cursor

<empty line>
Nameobject(folderName);
BeginFolderN(kSYMBOLDEFS); {kSYMBOLDEFS = 16;}
<empty line>

After cursor

<empty line>
EndFolder;

Some example code

                SetSelect(objH);
                <-cursor
  end;

If I add snippet at cursor position above, I get the following

                SetSelect(objH);

Nameobject(folderName);
BeginFolderN(kSYMBOLDEFS); {kSYMBOLDEFS = 16;}
<-cursor                 
                  EndFolder;
  end;

[ffes]

Since v1.6.0 snippets should be inserted with the indention, but as mentioned in the release notes, I have only been able to test it for a few languages.

From your report I am not able to spot what language you are using. Could you please tell me, so I can take a closer look.

[BW2001]

Hello

Thanks for responding.

I am new to Notepad++ and snippets. I have had another look at the problem and it seems that the snippets plugin ignores indents (ie TAB or spaces) within the body text – see attached screen grab I tried various combinations and found a workaround using “Before cursor” entry only followed by selection and TABbing to correct indent although not ideal.

Also, is there any way I can change the target language. Originally I edited the overrideMap to refer to a copy of Pascal function definition ie I have since created a UDL (user defined language). The problem is that snippets refers to previous definition. Is there any way to change the referenced language (otherwise I will have to rebuild from scratch). I had a look at the SQLlite database – table “LibraryLang”/Lang = 11 What is the language reference number for a UDL? If I haven’t missed it, can I change snippets language in the UI.

The language is a derivative of Pascal

Vectorscript web page https://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/VectorScript

Good Example https://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/VS:Progress_Dialog

Thanks

Bill Wood

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Since v1.6.0 snippets should be inserted with the indention, but as mentioned in the release notes, I have only been able to test it for a few languages.

From your report I am not able to spot what language you are using. Could you please tell me, so I can take a closer look.

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[ffes]

There are various issues with UDL and plugins (including my Snippets plugin). AFAIK for a plugin it is impossible to properly detect a UDL. Therefore things like adding the right language to a libraries, and apparently indenting (haven't tested it myself yet) don't work. See #43 as well.

[timint]

+1

Looking back at the whitespace before insert position, and prepending it to each and every following linebreak should solve the problem.