Question

I would appreciate if someone could direct me to a website that shows how to do this..
Can’t seem to find anything decent enough via google.

This will be the first time I’m doing this kind of thing with a text editor.. It has got to the stage where typing out things like <%= %> is getting old and slow.

I’ve got a rails snippet package and also ryan-on-rails package installed. Just confused with how to start using them.

I’m on max osx – snow leopard

Kind regards

Update

This helped me out. http://webtempest.com/sublime-text-2-how-to-create-snippets/ but I still need a little practice.

1. I have a package “rails” can’t remember where I got it but the triggering of snippets is working. I’d just like to find a nice list of the commands rather than have to go to each snippet and look for myself. I can find the by clicking on snippets but isn’t there a way I can create a shortcut for that?

2. Also would like some auto indentation.. and also complete.

Answer 1

Since you’re new to Sublime Text, I highly recommend you check out: ST2’s Unofficial Documentation. If includes a ton of getting started info plus tons of info for extendibility and plugin development.

Another great “Getting Started” guide can be found here on Nettuts+.

If you’re looking a list of your snippets and their associated shortcuts, go to “Tools > Snippets…” from your menu.

To expand <% into <%| %> (where | is the cursor), add the following you to your User-keybindings (Preferences > Keybindings – User):

 {
   "args": {
     "contents": "% $0 %>"
   }, 
   "command": "insert_snippet", 
   "context": [
     {
       "key": "selector", 
       "match_all": true, 
       "operand": "source.ruby", 
       "operator": "equal"
     },
     { "key": "preceding_text", "operator": "regex_match", "operand": ".*<", "match_all": true }
   ],
   "keys": [
     "%"
     ]
   }

The latest beta includes improved auto-indentation, so if you don’t have that installed, try that out.
As for autocompletion, Sublime Text 2 by default offers autocompletion of words in the current document (plus all of your snippets/completions from packages). However, if you’re looking for IDE-like autocompletion, there is the SublimeCodeIntel plugin. I am reluctant to mention it because it has not been updated in months and the bug reports keep flowing in.

Hope that helps.