https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456846
Bug ID: 456846 Summary: Kate Snippets: not clear how to work with selected text Product: kate Version: 22.04.3 Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: minor Priority: NOR Component: plugin-snippets Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org Reporter: ilmari.lauhakan...@libreoffice.org Target Milestone: --- The docs for Snippets could use some love: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kate/kate/kate-application-plugin-snippets.html I am looking for a way to wrap the selected text in tags, for example to help with MediaWiki Translate extension. Searching all over the web, I found many others looking for the same information. There is an old blog post with relevant discussion in the comments: https://milianw.de/blog/snippets-in-kdevelop-kate.html It is said that at some point this used to work: <strong>%{selection}</strong> There is a function in the view API view.selectedText() but it does not seem to be applying or maybe I am missing something. https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kate/katepart/dev-scripting.html#dev-scripting-api Given this in the Snippet tab <translate>${text}</translate> and in the Scripts tab text = view.selectedText(); the variable will be simply be replaced by "text". I also tried with editor.clipboardText() but the result was still "text", which I don't understand at all. If I use the percentage sign instead of dollar sign, like %{text}, the result will just be %{text}. I found this doc from 2010 that explains the difference between $ and % variables: https://kate-editor.org/2010/02/03/snippets-in-kdevelop-kate/ "snippet gets inserted (properly indented) and potential placeholders/variables get expanded. A variable is something like %{date} or ${email}. Also take a look at the API documentation. variables that get inserted via “${…}” will be “selectable”, meaning you can jump from one var to the other by hitting TAB / Shift TAB the %{…} vars will only get expanded and inserted, without getting selectable." -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.