is there a way to enforce an auto-replace?

[cutcopypaste]

I want sublime text to automatically replace

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<?

with

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<?php

while in HTML or PHP code.

Is there any way to do that?

I tried even setting it up as a regular snippet but including a < makes it so Sublime won't save the snippet bc there's an error parsing the snippet xml

[agibsonsw]

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<snippet>
    <content><![CDATA[
<?php
]]></content>
    <!-- Optional: Set a tabTrigger to define how to trigger the snippet -->
    <tabTrigger>&lt;?</tabTrigger>
    <!-- Optional: Set a scope to limit where the snippet will trigger -->
    <scope>text.html.basic</scope>
</snippet>

Although, personally.. I think it's more trouble than it's worth - and you're more likely to forget the php in future .

[cutcopypaste]

That is pretty good.. is there any way to make so I don't need to hit tab to complete it? There isn't, is there..

I know it's potentially 'bad habit forming'.. but I want this for a passive insurance system, and I will continue to type the PHP. I nearly always do.. but the one time you don't and spend a long time debugging and being very confused makes me wish that could just get taken care of behind the scenes

[agibsonsw]

That is pretty good.. is there any way to make so I don't need to hit tab to complete it? There isn't, is there..

I know it's potentially 'bad habit forming'.. but I want this for a passive insurance system, and I will continue to type the PHP. I nearly always do.. but the one time you don't and spend a long time debugging and being very confused makes me wish that could just get taken care of behind the scenes

If you look in the default key-bindings then you will see that you could create a key-binding to insert a snippet, with the snippet itself defined as part of the key-binding. An example:

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{ "keys": ["\""], "command": "insert_snippet", "args": {"contents": "\"$0\""}, "context":

You could ignore (delete) the context part.

You could use the on_modified event so that it would happen automatically but I think this is way overkill!