Emmet suggestions in php file is too noisy

[jens1o]

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.14.0-insider (779a7df, 2017-06-23T05:59:57.891Z)
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Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a emmet.php.
2. Write <? (everything is normal)
3. Write php, get this:
   
4. Hit enter
5. Get this:
   

😢

[jens1o]

@roblourens You're not meant. This is for @ramya-rao-a

[ramya-rao-a]

Have you mapped PHP to html using emmet.syntaxProfiles setting ?

[jens1o]

Yes, I did.

[ramya-rao-a]

This is yet another case where it is better for language specific extensions to call emmet completion provider instead of the emmet extension itself trying to suggest completions in a language that is not pure markup language.

The language specific extensions better understand their language and can trigger emmet completion provider at the right locations.

See #29114

I'll disable the emmet completions for cases when emmet.syntaxProfiles is used.
The command Emmet: Expand Abbreviation will still honor emmet.syntaxProfiles and will work as before (just not bound to Tab, you will have to assign a new key binding)

[jens1o]

Well, then I would expect that from the internal php extension. :/

[ramya-rao-a]

@jens1o Yes, that is a very valid expectation :)

@roblourens We talked about this yesterday. Do you mind if I create a new issue to track the discussion of having emmet support in the internal php extension?

[ramya-rao-a]

Created #29354 for emmet completion support in php extension

Closing this issue as its no longer applicable now that emmet suggestions are disabled when using emmet.sytnaxProfiles

[ramya-rao-a]

Note to verifier:

• Set emmet.useNewEmmet to true and emmet.includeLanguages to {"php" : "html"}
• You should be able to use the command Emmet: Expand Abbreviation to expand abbreviations
• Emmet suggestions should not show up in the suggestion list

[jrieken]

Emmet suggestions should not show up in the suggestion list

✅

You should be able to use the command Emmet: Expand Abbreviation to expand abbreviations

Yes, but it expands to <?<php></php> which I believe isn't valid php? Also, in the command palette the expand command is shown as being bound to Tab but actually pressing tab doesn't expand it...

[ramya-rao-a]

The verification step was more about testing general abbreviations, which work.

expands to <?<php></php>

#29774 is tracking this particular case.

command palette the expand command is shown as being bound to Tab but actually pressing tab doesn't expand it.

See #27611
In the new emmet model, tab will no longer be bound to the Emmet: Expand Abbreviation command. But since the old model still does support it, you end up seeing it

[ramya-rao-a]

@jens1o With all the improvements we did in 1.15, emmet suggestions in non html/css files has been greatly reduced.

Therefore, I have set emmet.showExpandedAbbreviation to always by default, so that once someone adds a mapping in emmet.includeLanguges, they start seeing the emmet suggestions right away.

@roblourens found an issue for php, where this can still be noisy. See #32207

Can you add on to that issue if you find any other instances in php where you see the emmet suggestions as noise?

[jens1o]

@ramya-rao-a Yeah, I'm going to use that issue. Thanks for the heads up!