Default HTML auto-completions are provided by HTML/html_completions.py.
It already provides completions for all entities such as &nbps;
.
To verify, type &
and hit ctrl+space.
In text
scopes such as HTML, completions popup displays only on certain trigger characters, by default, which only include <
for HTML/XML.
"auto_complete_triggers":
[
{"selector": "text.html, text.xml", "characters": "<"},
{"selector": "punctuation.accessor", "rhs_empty": true},
],
You’d want to add &
:
"auto_complete_triggers":
[
{"selector": "text.html, text.xml", "characters": "<&"},
{"selector": "punctuation.accessor", "rhs_empty": true},
],
In case you want to restrict e.g. <
to not trigger in strings
etc., separate rules are required
"auto_complete_triggers":
[
{"selector": "text.html - text.html markup - text.html meta.tag - text.html string - text.html source - text.html text, text.xml - text.xml markup - text.xml meta.tag - text.xml string - text.xml source - text.xml text", "characters": "<"},
{"selector": "text.html, text.xml", "characters": "&"},
{"selector": "punctuation.accessor", "rhs_empty": true},
],