Create Your First Snippet

To create a snippet:

• go to Plugin > FingerText > Toggle On/Off SnippetDock.
• You should see a sidebar named FingerText SnippetDock shows up in Notepad++. Click the button "Open Snippet Editor"
• A file named SnippetEditor.ftb is opened. The document is divided into 3 secions - "TriggerText" "Scope" "Snippet Content"
• TriggerText is the name of a snippet. You need to type the triggertext of a snippet in order to trigger it. For example, you can put test in this section.
• Scope indicates where the snippet is available. You can leave it as default.
• Snippet Content is the text you want to insert to Notepad++ when the snippet is triggered. You can put any amount of text in this section. But do remember to put a [>END<] at the end of the snippet. For example, you can put Hello FingerText!![>END<] into this section.
• Click the button "Save Current Snippet" on the SnippetDock to save the snippets.
• There should be a message box saying "Snippet "test" in scope is saved". And you have created your first snippet!

Next step is to try to trigger it! Go to Triggering Snippets

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