Tab completing expressions deletes the whole line without output

[jglovier]

I've seen several issues that seem similar, but not exactly the same so opening a new one. The problem I'm running into is that when I tab complete an Emmet expression, the whole line disappears without output.

Observe and behold:

I've seen others mention that autocomplete-plus hijacks Emmet's tab shortcut, but as you can see in the gif keybinding resolver shows that Emmet is indeed being fired on tab, so I'm at a loss for what is going on here.

What is the solution? Is this just a settings thing?

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[jglovier]

Possibly related: #225, #282, #334.

[emilMircea]

I have the same exact issue! Could not find an adequate solution yet.

[sergeche]

Can you open DevTools and check if there are any errors?

[jglovier]

@sergeche nothing that appears related to Emmet.

[sergeche]

Can you provide a full code (or least code where error can be reproduced) and your current document syntax?

[jglovier]

@sergeche I've tried it in several files, and anything with HTML syntax does the same thing.

[sergeche]

One possible reason is that if you use some HTML syntax variation (like HTML (Twig) or something), Emmet may mistakenly pick wrong settings and output empty result.

Can you try with clean and native HTML or XML syntax?

[jglovier]

Yup, several of these I tried were just plain .html files (HTML email files to be exact). Others were .liquid files set to HTML syntax.

[mgravina1]

I don't know if this can help you.
Go to File->Settings and select "Keybindings". Searching for "tab" you should get all the possible behaviours involving "tab" key. You should also see a message like "You can override these keybindings by copying and pasting them into your keymap file".
By clicking on the link in this message, a css will be opened.
Just add (or remove) the behaviours you want to use at the end of the file (copy them from the previous list).

For example:
'atom-text-editor:not([mini])':
'tab': 'emmet:expand-abbreviation'
'tab': 'editor:indent'

this will let you expand emmet abbreviation and indent your code by pressing tab.
Hope it helps

[calmyournerves]

This issue bugged me for a long time and I just saw #312. Re-enabling the snippets package solved the issue for me.