Hello,
can you tell me if there a place where to change / create the auto completion for html text ?
When i type html code in ST, it can help me by auto complete codes.
in example, i type < and ST show me a menu with <p> <em> <strong> etc.
I would like ST to auto complete with nbsp; when i type &.
Is it possible to “learn” him to do this ?
Default HTML auto-completions are provided by HTML/html_completions.py.
It already provides completions for all entities such as .
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},
],
Hi deathaxe.
I found html_completions.py file on my computer following this path : FileSystem > opt > sublime_text > packages > HTML.sublime-package (my OS is LinuxMint)
Two things make me doubting
this html_completions.py file is part of a compressed file. i am allowed to modify it, is there some precautions to follow when modify that kinbd of file ?
i cannot find anything about nor the text auto_complete_triggers in the content of html_completions.py file (neither in the text in the page you linked that seems to be the same as the one i see on my computer)
So i am not sure if i have to put here (in html_completions.py file) all the code you provide. i was thinking the first code-block you show was present there, in html_completions.py file, and i will have to modify it. As this code is actually missing in html_completions.py file, i have doubt.
The point is you don’t need to modify html_completions.py as it already provides completions for all html5 entities. You won’t find in this module as available/valid entities are imported from python’s standard library module html.entities.
auto_complete_triggers is a setting. Provided code snippets are examples for how to modify Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings to enable automatic completion popup when typing & in addition to already existing trigger <.
I am not sure i understand exactly what you mean.
I tried to go to menu Preferences > Settings and to add one of the codes you provide. Is this the correct thing to do ?
If yes, another problem occurs : this pop up appears when i try to save :
Don’t know if it is linked to the code i just paste in.
I should say i noticed a small mistake in the code :
"characters": "&"
should be better than
"characters": "<&"
as this one does not exist.
[edit]i was wrong here : & or <& works equally [/]
OK sorry, i found where i was wrong when i was pasting code. THIS works :
the code you provide must be pasted in the already existing {}
So, now, do you think it is possible to restrict the autocompletion list to only result , as it is probably the only one i will use ?
No, it doesn’t make sense for default html completion plugin to only complete .
