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**vigiliance** · June 2, 2021, 5:38am

I got this issue on Sublime text 4 ever since it got updated.

Autocomplete when pressing enter it generates space beside it. Not quite a fan of having space after the attribute.

autocompletespace-annoying

This is what I mean after pressing enter on autocomplete. What I didn’t like is having space generated for me, what I prefer doing is having no space.

I know what it’s just one press away from backspace but typing a lot of code with these can also waste some time as I’m already used to what the old version is doing and my style of code.

2021-06-02_13-46-46

Can anyone help me prevent these from happening?

I tried to tinker the settings but no luck.

{
“extensions”:
[
“css”,
“css.erb”,
“css.liquid”,
“scss”,
],
“auto_complete_trailing_spaces”: false,
“trim_automatic_white_space”: false,
“draw_white_space”: false
}

**jfcherng** · June 2, 2021, 10:04am

Unfortunately it’s hard-coded at this moment.

github.com

sublimehq/Packages/blob/f996a6fa9dcbda126d1e92a6bd47fe2be7892f63/CSS/css_completions.py#L651-L669


def complete_property_name(self, view, prefix, pt):
    if match_selector(view, pt, "meta.group"):
        # don't append semicolon in groups e.g.: `@media screen (prop: |)`
        suffix = ": $0"
    else:
        suffix = ": $0;"
    text = view.substr(sublime.Region(pt, view.line(pt).end()))
    matches = self.re_value.search(text)
    if matches:
        colon, space, value, term = matches.groups()
        if colon:
            # don't append anything if the next character is a colon
            suffix = ""
        elif value:
            # only append colon if value already exists
            suffix = ":" if space else ": "
        elif term == ";":
            # ommit semicolon if rule is already terminated
            suffix = ": $0"

**vigiliance** · June 2, 2021, 10:04am

Thank you, should be good enough, made it work. Thanks a lot!

**vigiliance** · June 27, 2021, 10:00am

Just saw your reply in my email. Let’s be civil though, if we do have some problems can just address about it and hoping someone can help us.

Though, he already provided a solution which is not that much of a work.

**deathaxe** · June 27, 2021, 10:04am

[ST4] CSS autocomplete space inconvenience issue