Defining scope for custom Sublime Text 2 snippets

Question

While trying to write my own snippets for Sublime Text 2, I ran into the following two problems:

1. Finding scope keys. I figured out that I can l

Answer 1

View Current Scope of Cursor Position

1. Place your cursor in the file where you wish to know the scope.

2. Use this keyboard-shortcut:

   Windows: ctrl+shift+alt+p
   Mac: ctrl+shift+p

3. The current scope will be displayed in the left side of the status bar on Windows, or in a popup window on Mac.

Use these as the key in your foo.sublime-snippet file.

The returned scopes are listed generic to specific. Choose the scope(s) which best "scoped" the snippet to where it should be available to tab trigger.