Snippet not working correctly

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i am quite new to ST. I created this css snippet now i want it to be universal, i mean to work just about anywhere and not just css file. and now it works fine on html but on css the when i type and press tab it sows this border-left property. i have emmet installed but it shoudnt conflict because b prefix is added. have a look at the snippet

    <snippet>
    <content><![CDATA[

        #${1:this}{
  margin: auto;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0; right: 0;
}

]]></content>
    <!-- Optional: Set a tabTrigger to define how to trigger the snippet -->
    <tabTrigger>bcen</tabTrigger>
    <!-- Optional: Set a scope to limit where the snippet will trigger -->
    <!-- <scope>source.python</scope> -->
</snippet>

hi @MarcAndre! what do you mean you want it to work just about anywhere? — arturomp
– arturomp, Commented Dec 22, 2013 at 18:09

MattDMo · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-22 20:31:28Z

1

When I open a fresh CSS document and type bcen I get

border-length: ;

so it must already be an Emmet shortcut. The easiest option would be for you to change the <tabTrigger> of your shortcut to something that Emmet doesn't use. There are other options, like setting "disable_tab_abbreviations": true in your Emmet settings, but that would disable everything, which I don't think you want to do.

Since you don't have a <scope> set for your snippet, it should work everywhere, for every language.

answered Dec 22, 2013 at 20:31

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Cloudboy22 Over a year ago

Yeah but as far as i know, there is no BCEN for emmet. so why it's clashing?

skuroda Over a year ago

@MarcAndre Based on MattDMo answer, it does expand in Emmet, so some entry does exist for it. It's also possible that it's a bug in Emmet. Perhaps file a bug on the project. It could also just have to do with how Emmet is implemented. If it simply runs a command based on tab, even if nothing "existed" for the expansion, it still wouldn't fall back to the snippet as the Emmet command was already run.

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