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Tab Abbreviations

Posted by stan on 2009-04-19 04:40 | Staff Pick!
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Stan Angeloff
Mon, 2009-06-22 05:42
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TAB trigger for Abbreviations.

What it does:

  • Auto-complete abbreviations by pressing TAB
  • Organise your abbreviations by folder and select the desired one from a pop-up menu

How to Configure?

  • Open up your toolbox and create a new folder (red icon) Abbreviations
  • Create a folder for each language - HTML, JavaScript, etc. Full list of supported languages is available in the bottom right hand corner of your window
  • Inside a language folder, create a new snippet. Give it a name you would later on use to insert it e.g. button, form, table, etc.

How to Install?

  • Download the XPI file
  • Fire up Komodo 5
  • Select Tool -> Add-ons -> Extensions
  • Drag and drop the XPI file onto the Add-ons window
  • Wait and confirm the installation

You must restart Komodo for changes to take effect.

Source code is available on Google Code.

How to get the pop-up menu
outsidethebox | Mon, 2009-06-15 16:22

What do I need to do to trigger the popup menu you describe?

For any of the languages
stan | Tue, 2009-06-16 03:10

For any of the languages that Komodo supports, open your toolbox and browse to Abbreviations -> [LANGUAGE]. Right click and add a new folder (not a live one, regular one). Set the name to 'doctype'. Inside the newly create folder add snippets for each DOCTYPE you want to have.

Cheers,
Stan

Ok, got that. But what keys
outsidethebox | Tue, 2009-06-16 14:58

Ok, got that. But what keys do I press to make that menu pop up?

Doesn't the TAB key work?
kiam | Thu, 2009-07-23 12:48

Reading the description of the extension I would think that the key to press is the TAB.

-- Kiam
Kiam la luno renkontas la sunon.

Cursor position after insertion
deakster | Fri, 2009-10-23 01:43

It would be very helpful if there was some way to define the cursor position in the inserted text (after it has been inserted).

subdir busted?
weitzman | Thu, 2009-10-29 10:46

I am having trouble completing a snippet which is in a subdir of the language folder. Is that a known limitation? The Drupal extension puts its abbreviations under PHP/Drupal. Thanks.