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Perfect Sublime Text 2 Key Bindings. Tab to skip out of brackets, braces, parentheses, and quotes/quotations but still be able to indent
[
// Move out of common paired characters () and [] with `Tab`
{
"keys": ["tab"],
"command": "move",
"args": {"by": "characters", "forward": true},
"context": [
// Check if next char matches (followed by anything)
{ "key": "following_text", "operator": "regex_match", "operand": "(:?`|\\)|\\]|\\}).*", "match_all": true },
// ...and that there is a paid character before it on the same
// line. This lets you `tab` to Indent at lines with single ]s
// still, like in a JSOn file
{ "key": "preceding_text", "operator": "regex_contains", "operand": "(:?`|\\(|\\[|\\{)", "match_all": true }
]
},
// Move out of single and double quotes with `Tab`
{
"keys": ["tab"],
"command": "move",
"args": {"by": "characters", "forward": true},
"context": [
{ "key": "following_text", "operator": "regex_match", "operand": "(?:\"|').*", "match_all": true },
{ "key": "preceding_text", "operator": "regex_contains", "operand": "(?:\"|')", "match_all": true }
]
}
]
@ccnixon
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ccnixon commented Aug 3, 2016

Try adding: {"key": "auto_complete_visible", "operand": false}, as an element of the context array.

@sierra-kilo
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Im copy pasting this into my keybindings for user, but keep getting an error.

Error trying to parse file: Unexpected trailing characters in ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/Default/Default (OSX).sublime-keymap:40:2

I tried removing some brackets then I get a comma error, I put commas, comes back to this error, any help would be appreciated. thanks

@idr4n
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idr4n commented Jun 12, 2017

I found another way which lies within sublime keybindings itself. Basically, I just modify the keybindings for auto closing parens, that is, I replace "contents": "($0)" with "contents": "($1)$0". Then just hit Tab to get out of the parenthesis. So I add in my keybindings the following:

{ "keys": ["("], "command": "insert_snippet", "args": {"contents": "($1)$0"}, "context":
    [
      { "key": "setting.auto_match_enabled", "operator": "equal", "operand": true },
      { "key": "selection_empty", "operator": "equal", "operand": true, "match_all": true },
      { "key": "following_text", "operator": "regex_contains", "operand": "^(?:\t| |\\)|]|;|\\}|$)", "match_all": true }
    ]
  },

And similar for square brackets, curly brackets, and single and double quotes.

@srxrt
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srxrt commented Jul 2, 2020

can you make one for Brackets as well?

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