Comments on: Snippets.sugar for Espresso

By: Ian Beck

Ian Beck — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:24:30 +0000

There’s currently a bug within Snippets itself that is preventing Snippets.sugar from working. I need to check in with the Snippets devs and see what the deal is.

The main benefit to using Snippets.sugar is that it allows you to use Espresso’s special snippet syntax (with tab stops and placeholders). It will also parse Snippets-style placeholders and convert them into Espresso tab stops if you prefer that route.

Of course, all of that only works if the connection between the two apps is up and functioning. :-\

By: Nick Toye

Nick Toye — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:46 +0000

Hi Ian,

I just don’t understand the benefits of using this Snippets sugar over the built in Snippets app.

I created an unordered list, copied it, saved it as a snippet using your sugar, but then if I hold shift and press U nothing works.

Actually nothing works. I only seem to get a response when I am within script tags.

Any ideas?

Nick

By: baotuo

baotuo — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:27:47 +0000

Espresso + Snippets + Sugar are awesome. Looking forward to your update.
BTW, I have forked your repo in the GitHub. If you have no time, let me know what changed in Snippets 1.4. I think I can handle it.
Thanks you:)

By: Ian Beck

Ian Beck — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:49:29 +0000

Something must have changed in Snippets 1.4; I’ll email them and see.

By: baotuo

baotuo — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:01:59 +0000

Hi, Ian. Seems it doesn’t work for Snippets 1.4. Something changed?

By: Arturo

Arturo — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:51:18 +0000

Indeed, GitHub is great for this. Thanks a lot, Ian!

By: Ian Beck

Ian Beck — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:46:55 +0000

I’ve recompiled the Sugar and posted the updated version for Espresso 2 to the project’s GitHub download page:

https://github.com/onecrayon/Snippets-sugar/downloads

The GitHub project is the best place to watch for updates to the Sugar; I’ve emailed it to the Snippets.app folks, but I do not know when they will replace the copy on their server.

By: Arturo

Arturo — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:54:06 +0000

Great! Thanks a lot :)
It doesn’t seem to be working. The sugar options show in the preferences Advanced tab, but the Snippets option in the Action menu is gone… :P

By: Ian Beck

Ian Beck — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:27:00 +0000

Oh, is it not working? Hadn’t thought to test it yet, but probably just needs to be recompiled against 2.0. I’ll do that soon and post a new download.

By: Arturo

Arturo — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:00:28 +0000

Hi, Ian. Any plans to update Snippets.sugar to work with Espresso 2?

By: Ian Beck

Ian Beck — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:32:59 +0000

Yep, you can change the keyboard shortcut either in your System Preferences Keyboard pane, or else by modifying the sugar itself (right click the sugar in the Finder, choose Show Package Contents, and edit the TextActions/Actions.xml file to change the key-equivalents.

By: Axi tPatel

Axi tPatel — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:47:22 +0000

I find the sugar really helpful. It has helped me decrease my coding time significantly. Thanks for the effort. Is there anyway I can change the insert snippet key equivalent?