autocomplete causes double open tags

[wraithrose]

For example, if I am trying to bold some dialogue, I type { and autocomplete offers up the bold tags for me, but when I select it, instead of completing what's already there, it just pastes in the whole snippet, resulting in double brackets at the beginning:

{{b} {/b}

Thought it might be an issue with Sublime, but it doesn't do this with this package disabled, and I have nothing else installed? (very new to renpy and sublime!)

[koroshiya]

Hmm, that's a tricky one. The problem appears to be that sublime-completions files don't consider those sorts of characters to be part of the trigger.

So even though the auto-complete trigger (defined in TextTags.sublime-autocompletions) is defined as "{b}", Sublime Text only really cares about the "b". This is why you can trigger the auto-complete by entering "b", but not by entering "{" by itself. And also why once you've written the full "{b}", the auto-complete can't be triggered anymore, since the last character is "}" which it doesn't consider part of the trigger.

I've seen this problem occur in other syntax packages, particularly HTML auto-completions. The only solution I'm aware of is to remove the .sublime-autocompletions file altogether and replace it with a manual tag auto-completion plugin written in Python. I'd rather not do that (sublime-autocompletions files are supposed to remove the need for doing that), so I'll look around a bit before making any changes.

For this particular case (the bold text tag) I'd recommend using the hotkey instead. I've defined three hotkeys inside of the .sublime-keymap files: ctrl+i for italic, ctrl+b for bold, ctrl+u for underline (super instead of ctrl for MacOS). That doesn't resolve the underlying issue, but I find it easier for inserting formatting in Renpy text.