[Geany] Use snippets for HTML autocompletion?

[Eugene Arshinov]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:35:23 +0100%
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:01:09 +0400
> Eugene Arshinov <earshinov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a suggestion and want to know if it makes sense for anyone
> > else.  Currently if you turn on "XML tag autocompletion" in
> > Preferences > Editor > Completions, a table template is
> > automatically inserted after you write "<table>".  It seems that
> > the template is in Geany's source code and can't be changed.
> > 
> > The suggestion is to make use of snippets: if "table" or "<table>"
> > snippet is specified in [HTML] section of snippets.conf, the
> > snippet is automatically inserted, otherwise <table> tag is just
> > closed, like other tags now.  This should also work for any other
> > tag.
> > 
> > Though, you can just define a snippet (say, "table") and use it when
> > you want to insert a table.  I doubt it's worth implementing the
> > suggestion if everything it gives is the ability to type "<table>"
> > instead of typing "table" and pressing complete-snippet keybinding.
> 
> Perhaps the behaviour could be moved to the 'HTML chars' plugin, which
> could be renamed HTML or Markup.

Geany will have to notify the plugin about every char added.  Won't it
be too "heavy" to send a signal in this case?

> 
> We could add a 'table' snippet. With the <> angle brackets you would
> probably get the automatic closing tag before pressing tab to complete
> the snippet.

I think it's reasonable to remove "autotable" and add "table" snippet instead.

Best regards,
Eugene.