[Geany] Use snippets for HTML autocompletion?

[Nick Treleaven]

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.

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.

Nick