Steve Kalkwarf wrote:
I think a clipping file with:
<CR><TAB>#INSERTION#<CR>
(where<CR> expands to a literal return, and<TAB> is a literal tab) would do
the trick.
Actually, there's a small catch or two here. :)
A few months ago I tried to do what I thought would be a very simple
clipping and/or script so when I pressed Ctrl-Return it would mimic
hitting Return and Tab together. Dirt-simple, right?
Well, the first trick is you need #INDENT# as a placeholder somewhere.
The sample you have above would not match the current indent of the
text, because by default BBEdit will go back to position 0 of the next
line when it inserts a clipping with a <CR> in it.
The second trick is that if you put a <TAB> in a clipping, BBEdit
inserts a hard tab character, rather than checking if Auto-Expand Tabs
is on and doing The Right Thing based on that. I ended up having to
write a little script to insert either a hard tab or the proper number
of spaces.
This is actually a somewhat long-standing pet peeve of mine with BBEdit,
I confess: I'm pretty sure its authors have always coded with hard tabs,
and that soft tabs were, for a very long time, treated a bit more like
afterthoughts. To me, BBEdit's backspace behavior with auto-expand tabs
turned on was broken until version 9.6. :) Logically, when a clipping
inserts a <TAB> character, BBEdit should treat that like hitting the
<TAB> key: insert either a hard tab or an appropriate run of spaces. (Or
at least there should be a #TAB# placeholder which does that.)
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