[quote=ācastles_made_of_sandā]http://zencoding.akalias.net/releases/z ā¦ ation.html
zencoding.akalias.net/releases/1.6.0a.html[/quote]
Cool stuff man, how can I get this?
[quote=ācastles_made_of_sandā]http://zencoding.akalias.net/releases/z ā¦ ation.html
zencoding.akalias.net/releases/1.6.0a.html[/quote]
Cool stuff man, how can I get this?
Yeah, itās not finished
soz
I donāt really want to be obliged to support something in the case of just a few people buying/donating.
It was just one of those, oh damn, I need some money, stupid ideas.
So, failing that, Iām not sure how much time Iād want or even could could sink into it.
Iām not sure when exactly Iāll get around to finishing/pushing it but I plan to.
Personally, Iām not attempting to build anything significant with this. ZenCoding is a fantastic feature already. Iām just studying/ dabbling at the moment. If it happens that I create something that others find useful or interesting, then thatās great
Dude, keep having fun and experimenting, what itās all about! Fuck the naysayers! Just do what your doing.
Iām discovering a lot about regular expressions . Iāve managed to compact it such that terms such as bb, bbc, brs construct:
border-bottom, border-bottom-color, border-right-style
but the separate words (border, bottom, color) only appear once within the regex expressions. That is, it grabs the term āborderā and then decides whether it needs to append ā-bottomā and then perhaps ā-colorā. (It also means I no longer need to type hyphens.) In a similar way Iāve combined margins with padding. I like this
Itās amazing what can be achieved in one Snippet (with a little effortā¦)! Iām having second thoughts about the help text though, as itās making it a bit verbose. I might change my mind and just have a second snippet (proph) which just produces help text within a css comment, or just abbreviate the help text.
I would still like to be able to put apostrophes or quotes around font names, but they throw everything off(?).
Again, Iām not attempting to substitute for ZenCoding, but I like the idea of a single Snippet being capable of all of this. Regards, Andy.
PS It occurred to me that, using the technique above, I could also provide property-values that are contextual (like ZCā¦). Iāll probably not do this thoughā¦
Iāve finished this now (and I can move on!). I think itās in its optimal state for a single Snippet. It includes most of the major properties. You can now type āporā for āposition: relative;ā, etc.
I eventually discovered that the maximum number of variables is 100 (or 99)!
<snippet>
<content><![CDATA[/* ${1} : ${1/($)|.*(?:\b| )((b)|(c)|(d)|(e)|(f)|(h)|(l)|(m)|(o)|(p)|(q)|(r)|(t)|(v)|(w)|(z)).?$|.*/?1:Type to for top etc., followed by a space:?3:BAckground-Attach etc BOTtom BOrder-Collapse-Spacing BC BS BW BorderBottom\(Color\/Style\/Width\) etc:?4:CLear CLIp COlor CONtent CUrsor Counter-Inc-Reset Caption-Side:?5:DIsplay DIRection:?6:Empty-Cells:?7:FOnt F-Family-SI\/ST\/W\/V FLoat:?8:HEight:?9:LEft LEtter-Spacing Line-Height List-Style I\/P\/T:?10:MArgin T\/R\/B\/L MAx\/MIn-Height\/Width:?11:OUtline-Color-Style-Width OVerflow:?12:PAdding T\/R\/B\/L POsition-Abs\/Rel\/Fixed\/Static:?13:QUotes:?14:RIght:?15:TOp TExt-Align\/D\/I\/T:?16:Vertical-Align VIsibility:?17:WHite-space WIdth WOrd-spacing:?18:Z-index/i} */$0${1/\\|(?:\b| )((ba((a)|(c)|(i)|(p)|(r))?)|(bot)|(bo((c)|(s))?)|(((bb)|(bl)|(br)|(bt)|b)((c)|(s)|(w))?)|(cli)|(con)|(co)|(cu)|(cl)|(c((i)|(r)))|(cs)|(dir)|(di)|(ec)|((ff)|(fsi)|(fst)|(fv)|(fw)|fo)|(fl)|(he)|(les)|(le)|(lh)|(ls((i)|(p)|(t))?)|(((ma)|(mi))((h)|(w)))|(((ma)|(pa))((b)|(l)|(r)|(t))?)|(ou((c)|(s)|(w))?)|(ov)|(po((a)|(r)|(f)|(s))?)|(qu)|(ri)|(to)|(te((a)|(d)|(i)|(t)))|(va)|(vi)|(wh)|(wi)|(wo)|(z)|([0-9]*)(cm|em|ex|in|mm|pt|pc|px|\%)((4)|3))( |$)|( {2,}|\t)/?2:;\nbackground(?4:-attachment:?5:-color:?6:-image:?7:-position:?8:-repeat)\: :?9:;\nbottom\: :?10:;\nborder(?12:-collapse:?13:-spacing)\: :?14:;\nborder(?16:-bottom:?17:-left:?18:-right:?19:-top)(?21:-color:?22:-style:?23:-width)\: :?24;\nclip\: :?25:;\ncontent\: :?26:;\ncolor\: :?27:;\ncursor\: :?28:;\nclear\: :?29:;\ncounter-(?31:increment:?32:reset)\: :?33:;\ncaption-side\: :?34:;\ndirection\: :?35:;\ndisplay\: :?36:;\nempty-cells\: :?37:;\nfont(?38:-family:?39:-size:?40:-style:?41:-variant:?42:-weight)\: :?43:;\nfloat\: :?44:;\nheight\: :?45:;\nletter-spacing\: :?46:;\nleft\: :?47;\nline-height\: :?48:;\nlist-style(?50:-image:?51:-position:?52:-type)\: :?53:;\n(?55:max:?56:min)(?58:-height:?59:-width):?60:;\n(?62:margin:?63:padding)(?65:-bottom:?66:-left:?67:-right:?68:-top)\: :?69:;\noutline(?71:-color:?72:-style:?73:-width)\: :?74:;\noverflow\: :?75:;\nposition\: (?77:absolute:?78:relative:?79:fixed:?80:static):?81:;\nquotes\: :?82:;\nright\: :?83:;\ntop\: :?84:;\ntext(?86:-align:?87:-decoration:?88:-indent:?89:-transform)\: :?90:;\nvertical-align\: :?91:;\nvisibility\: :?92:;\nwhite-space\: :?93:;\nwidth\: :?94:;\nword-spacing\: :?95:;\nz-index\: :?96:$96$97 $97 $97:?99: $97/gi};
]]></content>
<tabTrigger>propx</tabTrigger>
<scope>source.css meta.property-list.css</scope>
<description>po to, etc</description>
</snippet>
Thank you. Well, I was thinking what more could be doneā¦ Iāve run out of variables . But you pushed me a little furtherā¦
I realise that I could have additional fields, before and after the current one. So, for example, typing something like āboraā for border-radius could also add ā-moz-border-radiusā at the top of the property list. Perhaps there are properties that people would generally put at the bottom of the list as well (or just the less common ones).
But I was hoping to leave this alone for a while. I still think itās kinda cool though, that all this can be achieved in one (relatively) small snippet/file
Footnote: It might seem that Iām reproducing the work of my css completions file, but I think they serve different purposes. The completions help you to discover properties and their values, whereas the snippet enables you to quickly layout a set of known properties. And, of course, thereās always ZenCoding
ā¦ actually, going back to a comment made by dreagan, if I split this into a few fields, rather than the current one, then I would be able to supply all the standard values for each property, and have properties appear in a certain order. (The only values that appear at the moment are absolute, relative, fixed and static - for position.)
But I just feel that I would be re-drafting ZenCoding (even more than I have already). I must move onā¦
Man, thatās one mother of all regex snippets! You may as well get contextual expansions working: n
=> none
after display:
etc
I was originally considering this, which is partly why I included absolute, relative. As mentioned, it would mean introducing more fields, which would in turn mean certain properties appearing at the top or bottom of the list. But I already have a completions file to help will values
A (cool), and easier, alternative occurred to me. I can type ābsā for āborder-styleā but if I then type ābs_ā I could have another line appearing immediately underneath listing the available values! This line could disappear after typing another character, or could remain until the underscore is deleted, or another underscore is used.
I would still have to type the value, but stillā¦ I still want to move on to other things, but I might play with this idea for a bit
I still want to move on to other things
Itās pretty cool what youāve been able to do with a little regex and some persistence
Personally, Iād like to see a snippet templating language implemented in python with transformations/includes etc.
[quote=ācastles_made_of_sandā]Itās pretty cool what youāve been able to do with a little regex and some persistence
Personally, Iād like to see a snippet templating language implemented in python with transformations/includes etc.[/quote]
Thank you. Such a template wouldnāt be quite as interesting though?
My underscore idea works really well. I donāt need it to keep jumping to a second line, it just replaces the current help text on the same line. It disappears after typing two more characters, and I donāt even need to delete the underscore
BTW I was a little (a lot!) ambitious thinking I could just examine a few python files to steer me towards creating a plug-in. But I shouldnāt need to spend hours and hours studying Python and the Plugins API. I just need a kick-start.
How do I read input from the console? How do I trap the onchange event? How do I send output to the view, and console?
I anticipate the trickiest thing would be dealing with Backspace or the user repositioning the cursor
Such a template wouldnāt be quite as interesting though?
What you mean? Not as much fun to try and push to the limit?
GGRRRRRā¦ haha Not really. I think you are projecting your rage
Was a serious question. Was wondering why it wouldnāt be so interesting to him. Regex declarative transformations and Python imperative templates would be diff solutions to the same problem
The latter would be more verbose but I guess more flexible.
Thereās a certain challenge like fun Iād imagine from doing stuff with the regexes.
Yes, itās been both fun and challenging I omitted a character a couple of times, and it crashed straight out of ST!