IMHO the ability to select one from a list of items during a clipping
insertion operation would be a wonderful feature. That said, you can wire
up your own via AppleScript. I don't recall the exact technique but there
are a few examples out there on the web. Here's a short and easily read
link with some ideas on how to do it:
http://books.google.es/books?id=Ud9WZg-m87EC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=create+a+custom+dialog+applescript&source=bl&ots=HOwxy-dixl&sig=9IreOrdzmaqTthyQeYwBqGYFwwc&hl=en&ei=r3M-SrCTMcOMjAeNjrQP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=create%20a%20custom%20dialog%20applescript&f=false

Good luck and let us know what you come up with.

Ted

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:25 PM Brian Christiansen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> When I'm using auto-complete with CSS, I get items like this:
>
> display:
> <#none|inline|block|inline-block|list-item|run-in|compact|marker#>;
>
> Is there a way from the keyboard to select one of those options, that
> isn't "highlight and delete everything that's not the option you want"? I
> feel like I'm missing something. For the record, I don't know if this is
> from a built-in auto-complete lib, or a user-contributed clippings library.
> I didn't see anything in the clippings chapter of the manual that spelled
> out a non-mouse way of selecting one of the options.
>
> I feel like I could be making more use of the clippings feature,
> especially from the keyboard. Any additional tips beyond answering this
> query, or "you can assign shortcuts to specific clippings" (which I do) are
> welcome.
>
> I understand when I get options like this:
>
> margin: <#top#> <#right#> <#bottom#> <#left#>;
>
> That I can tab to each place holder and overwrite a value. That's great.
> That's the type of interaction I would like from the top sample. If there
> were a way of selecting one of those options (top sample) from the keyboard
> after an auto-complete, I would absolutely put that to work with a number
> of custom clippings.
>
> Thanks, all.
>
> ~brian
>
> @briandigital
>
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