keyboard shortcut to edit snippets quickly

Default.sublime-keymap

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 [
 	{
-	   "keys": ["tab"],
-	   "command": "super_snippet"
+		"keys": ["tab"],
+		"command": "super_snippet"
+	},
+	{
+		"keys": ["ctrl+alt+super+s"],
+		"command": "show_super_snippet"
 	}
 ]

ShowSuperSnippetCommand.py

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import sublime, sublime_plugin, os, re
+
+a_to_z = re.compile("^[A-Za-z0-9_-]*$")
+
+class ShowSuperSnippetCommand(sublime_plugin.WindowCommand):
+
+	def open_snippet(self, word):
+		# is this in our settings file?  This should be in your User dir
+		# and look like { "shorttext": "expanded texmplate", ... }
+		settings = sublime.load_settings("SuperSnippet.sublime-settings")
+		if settings.has(word):
+			path = os.path.join(sublime.packages_path(),"User","SuperSnippet.sublime-settings")
+			self.window.open_file(path,sublime.TRANSIENT)
+			return
+
+		else:
+			# look for a file that is named after the snippet in the
+			# User directory.  we will only do this if the snippet has an
+			# ascii A-Za-z short form
+			if a_to_z.match(word):
+				path = os.path.join(sublime.packages_path(),"User","%s.sublime-supersnippet" % word)
+				self.window.open_file(path,sublime.TRANSIENT)
+			else:
+				return
+
+	def run(self):
+		self.window.show_input_panel("Show Super Snippet:", "", self.open_snippet, None, None)
+

SuperSnippetCommand.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import sublime, sublime_plugin, os, re
 
-a_to_z = re.compile("^[A-Za-z_-]*$")
+a_to_z = re.compile("^[A-Za-z0-9_-]*$")
 
 class SuperSnippetCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):