How does the SurroundsWith CodeSnippetType work?

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Posted 18 years ago by shark92651
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I'm not quite sure how this is supposed to work in the editor. Are you supposed to select text and then invoke the list of templates or what?

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Posted 18 years ago by Boyd - Sr. Software Developer, Patterson Consulting, LLC
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Certain CodeSnippets (not all) will handle selected text in a certain way when a CodeSnippet is activated. For instance, if you highlight a block of text and then activate the "for" snippet, the selected text will become the body of the for statement.

Any CodeSnippet that can handle selected text should be of the SurroundsWith type. This flag is primarily used to determine which Code Snippets are listed when you emulate the "Insert Snippet" or "Surround With" commands from Visual Studio 2005.
Posted 18 years ago by shark92651
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So I just need to provide another way to invoke a template? From a context-menu, for example, and then Activate it myself?
Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Exactly... either that or show the Insert Snippet popup, which lets the user choose which code snippet to activate.


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The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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