Assign keybinding to snippet

[ghost]

Hi. Recently discovered Textadept. Thanks much.
New to Textadept and Lua. Two new great adventures, Yay.

I have a snippet that I use quite frequently in html and plain text languages.
Choosing Tools > Snippets > Insert Snippet and then choosing from a list is
cumbersome.

snip['tag'] = '<%1%2>%<selected_text></%1>'

I would like to use ctrl+` to insert this snippet.

I try
keys['ctrl+`'] = textadept.snippets.insert('<%1%2>%<selected_text></%1>')
in my init.lua file, but that brings an error buffer when I start Text adept.

The snippet works fine when I put it in html and text language modules.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[orbitalquark]

Try this: keys['ctrl+`'] = function() textadept.snippets.insert('<%1%2>%<selected_text></%1>') end You want to assign to the key a function to call, rather than calling a function (on init) and assigning its result to the key.

[ghost]

Got it.
Lots to learn.
Awesome response time! Thanks much.