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jpillora
jpillora

Reputation: 5262

Sublime Snippets break with left-square brackets

Given the following test.sublime-snippet

<snippet>
    <content><![CDATA[//test replacement
//${1}
//${1/(.*)/<$1>/g}
]]></content>
    <tabTrigger>test</tabTrigger>
</snippet>

Install it. Trigger it with testTab. Enter some text and you'll see replacement stops when you enter the left square bracket [ key. Sublime correctly auto-places the other bracket ] though it should continue to match.

Is this a bug or am I missing a special escape character?

Here is the buggy snippet I'm trying to fix: Go Class snippet

Upvotes: 2

Views: 223

Answers (1)

Keith Hall
Keith Hall

Reputation: 16055

This is a bug in Sublime Text, whereby, when the insert_snippet command is executed when typing [ for example, when auto_match_enabled is set to true, it causes ST to lose the information about the regex substitution for the snippet you were originally typing in.

It has been logged as an issue here: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/1017

the only workaround at the moment would be to implement the same auto_match_enabled functionality without using the insert_snippet command.

Upvotes: 1

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