Hi, Is there a way to have a token in the snippet that pastes the content of the clipboard into the snippet ? Example "select * from product where product_id = $$paste-from-clipboard$$ and group = 'XYZ' and other_things = 0", with shortcut 'selprod' Say I somehow have a product_id on the clipboar…

Don't have your exact requirement in the product today, but you can get pretty close by defining snippets that have a "SurroundWith" type, instead of expansion. In particular, with the built-in $end$ snippet token, you can accomplish pretty close to your end result by Copy to Clipboard Type the s…

Hi Gary, Thanks for the response. This is indeed a good idea. Unfortunately this won't work if you need the pasted value in multiple places. For instance with the following oneliner snippet (where I'd like to paste the temp tablename) : if object_id('tempdb..$selected$') is not null drop table …

Hi Gary, Great, that actually works. Thanks a lot !

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Gary.Jerep June 2, 2021, 5:58pm 4

Hey Pascal, but this does work... as long as you're defining your code snippets with a type of "Surrounds With". See snap flow below...

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Snippet : snippet token from clipboard

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