Yes. From my conversations with Patrick from Bare Bones, it seems that it is simply a philosophical argument about what keys are allowed to be used for the autocomplete function. "Tab" seems like the logical choice, but as it's already used by many other functions, which might be problematic for people. From what I understand, this isn't the first time that this request has come up.
On Saturday, May 11, 2013 12:17:27 AM UTC-4, Oliver Taylor wrote: > > On May 10, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Christopher Finazzo > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > I would much rather be able to assign a short name and then be able to > press Tab in order to complete a tag or other block of text. > > > This is provided by BBEdit's auto-complete function. Type the > clipping-name then select from the menubar "Edit > Complete" (which you can > assign a shortcut to). See page 93 of the user manual. This works for > clippings (which can contain scripts), ctags, dictionary words, and words > elsewhere in the document. > > Is that what you're talking about? > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
