What are User Variables?
User variables are used in Clips (See Context Files) They are always surrounded by %percentsigns% and you may use predefined ones or add/edit/delete your own using User variables dialog box (See Menu – Settings). Clip variables are listed at top of context file. May are premade: HTML, Perl, PHP, INI, XML, JavaScript. If a For example, you define in User variables %PI%=3.141592654. In clip list you can write: [pi | Insert number value pi] %MyTestVariable%; To insert the value of PI into your document, press Ctrl+Space and select pi. You must add or modify the clip in the language.def you use with your language/filetype. i.e. PSPad\Context\HTML.def for html files. You are not required to use them, you could wrote 3,1415… directly in the clip unter “[pi | Insert number value pi]”, but the other way you could modify the value easly using User variables dialog box. You can also use the build-in variables in clips. i.e. %FileName%, %Company% or %Date% and so on.
