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Mastering Sublime Text
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We learned that snippets can be very helpful, so how about creating our own? We'll make an awesome HTML snippet, better than the one in the preceding example. First, let's have a look at how snippets work in more detail.
Snippets can be saved under any package folder, but we'll start with saving our snippets under Packages/User. Snippets must live in a Sublime package.
Snippets are simple XML-formatted files with the extension sublime-snippet. The root XML tag will always be <snippet> and will then contain the following:
Content: This tag represents the actual snippet.
If we want to write $, we'll need to escape it with \$.
For indentation, use tabs only. If the translate_tabs_to_spaces option is set to true, tabs will be transformed to spaces automatically when the snippet is inserted.
The Content tag must contain the <![CDATA[…]]> section. Snippets won't work if we won't do it.
Also, the Content tag cannot...
Change the font size
Change margin width
Change background colour