Sunday, December 8, 2013

Re: autocompletion for html (and other things)

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, December 7, 2013 2:03:39 PM UTC-6, Gallagher Polyn wrote:
>> I'm easing into vim by using it while following along some online coding tutorials (nice thing about this approach is I'm challenged to emulate the video IDE functioning with vim!)
>>
>> Anyway, it seems to me there must be an easy ways to get autocompletion for html (and other standard tag systems), but nothing I've found, yet, seems to offer a sure shot -- maybe there are multiple approaches!
>>
>> How can I configure vim to allow me to type this...
>>
>> <html>
>>
>> ...and have the closing tag created, too...
>>
>> </html>
>>
>
> Actually HTML defines omnicompletion by default in a way that pressing <C-X><C-O> after typing "</" will auto-complete whatever tag is open.
>
> Or the popular surround plugin allows creating matching pairs of open...close tags with the cursor between. I think using <C-S> in insert mode. But I don't quite remember, consult the help.

Those are great suggestions. I've also seen a lot of buzz about vim-emmet:

http://mattn.github.io/emmet-vim/


Justin M. Keyes

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