Using selected text in UltiSnips snippets

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11 months ago

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In each episode, Drew Neil demonstrates one of Vim's features, showing how to incorporate it into your workflow.

Technology

Using selected text in UltiSnips snippets

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5 minutes 13 seconds

11 years ago

Using selected text in UltiSnips snippets

When UltiSnips is triggered from Visual mode it captures the selection and makes it available to our snippets. We can then insert the selection unchanged with the $VISUAL placeholder, or we can use UltiSnips Python interpolation to transform the text before inserting it back into the document.