editor variables for selecting text

[Hydrogen]

I'd like to suggest a pair of editor variables to delimit part of the text that is returned by a selection plugin or code template. If we for the purpose of the following example name them ${ssel} for start selection and ${esel} for end selection you could create a code template like this:

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    <xsl:choose>

        <xsl:when test="@color='${ssel}orange${esel}'">

            

        </xsl:when>

    </xsl:choose>

When used the word "orange" would be selected and the user may choose to:
1) Overwrite with another word
2) Press left or right cursor keys to prepend or append text (e.g. change to "dark orange").
3) Invoke a selection plugin or any other command that operates on selected text
4) Use any cursor keys, click or command to leave the selected text as is

[Radu]

Hi,

So let me see if I understood correctly.
Right now you can use ${caret} to say that after the insertion the caret should be placed at a certain offset.
In addition you want to have editor variables which state that after the insertion a certain range of the inserted content should be selected.

Indeed, this is a feature request, we will consider it.

Regards,
Radu