Add intelligent placeholder

[CaptainQuirk]

Hi,

I find myself reentering the same text string over and over again. Would it be possible for you to make placeholder references ?

For example when doing

  touch %1 && chmod +x %1

Only filling the first placeholder would be enough, the second one being filled automatically.

[pindexis]

This is a nice feature, but a little bit complex to implement :( The reason is that I have to listen to all insertions and update the command accordingly, and there's no simple way to do the listening. Therefore I'm reluctant to implement it. A possible alternative would be: file=%% && touch $file && chmod +x $file

[CaptainQuirk]

Hi !

Thanks for your reponse ! I think that it's not that big an issue if the whole operation is not live. I'm more interested in the final result than in some fancy stuff ! Especially if it's not doable ;-). That being said, couldn't it be implemented by replacing the dynamic placeholders on a user action, whether by a MARKER_KEY_NEXT_PLACEHOLDER, or by a new key mapping ?

This would lead to the following scenarios:

Action triggered by MARKER_KEY_NEXT_PLACEHOLDER

• user types characters
• user hits key to expand
• bookmark is displayed and cursor is placed at the first placeholder's position
• user hits the next placeholder key
• If one or more references are found, fill the references accordingly and go to the next placeholder position
• If none, go to the next placeholder position

Action triggered by a new key mapping

• user types characters
• user hits key to expand
• bookmark is displayed and cursor is placed at the first placeholder's position
• Filling placeholders is made as usual
• Users hit the custom key mapping and references are expanded