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

I did something a little bit more complex and complete too. Like \emph{} when you press ctrl+l, ctrl+e ... My job here is to write \textit{} when you press ctrl+shift+i.

Go to Preferences > Browse Packages. There inside you should save a file named "Text ital.sublime-snippet" for example. Inside of this file put this code:

    Italic text
    
    
    
    text.tex.latex

Then go to Preferences > Key Bindings. There inside you will write this:

[
{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+i"],  
    "context":  [
        {"key": "selector", "operator": "equal", "operand": "text.tex.latex"}],
    "command": "insert_snippet", "args": {"name":"Packages/LaTeXTools/Text ital.sublime-snippet"}}
]

Remind that Packages/LaTeXTools/ is the Location of Preferences > Browse Packages. Remind too that you should insert a comma between two different shortcuts you create.

Hope it works!