You can either create your own snippet in Emmet: http://docs.emmet.io/customization/snippets/ http://docs.emmet.io/abbreviations/types/
...or disable li
snippet from being handled by Emmet:
https://github.com/sergeche/emmet-sublime/blob/master/Emmet.sublime-settings#L55
...or disable Emmet tab trigger and use Ctrl+E: https://github.com/sergeche/emmet-sublime/blob/master/Preferences.sublime-settings#L14
...or rename your ST snippet to something like li2
, lit
, etc.