Sublime Text: how to make shortcut for inserting text?

Question

I need make a shortcut that will be adding certain text at the cursor, eg {sometext}, how can this be done?

Answer 1

If you already have a snippet file written, say at Packages/User/myFunction.sublime-snippet, you can use

Add this to Preferences > Key Bindings - User

{ "keys": ["ctrl+1"], "command": "insert_snippet", "args": {"name": "Packages/User/myFunction.sublime-snippet"} }

This example binds the snippet to CTRL + 1.

I found the info on Christopher Millward's blog.