After “a{display text}”, then pasting the url, how can I get the cursor to go after the close </a>? Like $0 in a Sublime autocomplete

Question

I'm using Emmet in Sublime Text 3.

After executing a{display text} , you get

<a href="__CURSOR__">display text</a>

What I'm trying to do is get the cursor to jump to after the close </a> , after I've pasted in the url. I'm trying to simulate Sublime's autocomplete $0 behavior, like

<a href="$1">display text</a>$0

I am looking through snippets.json, but I'm not getting it. The only "a" entry is in the "abbreviations" object, and contains only the open tag:

"a": "<a href=\"\">",

I've not edited any Emmet tags before, and I thought this might be a good first one to try.

Any ideas on how this might be possible?

Answer 1

There's a built-in Emmet setting that does this for all tags:

This is in C:\\Users\\jeffy\\AppData\\Roaming\\Sublime Text 3\\Packages\\Emmet\\Emmet.sublime-settings

// If set to `true`, Emmet will automatically insert final tabstop
// at the end of expanded abbreviation
"insert_final_tabstop": false

I duplicated it to C:\\Users\\jeffy\\AppData\\Roaming\\Sublime Text 3\\Packages\\User\\Emmet.sublime-settings

and changed it to true . It does exactly as I want. Well, it still goes to the display text, even if there already is display text. Then it goes to the end. But close enough!