Emmet expansions occurred when the user wanted to indent source code using the Tab key.There were two issues with using the Tab key as a keyboard shortcut for Emmet expansion: Tab no longer the default Emmet expansion key Pull the Emmet integration out of the VS Code core and into an extension.Provide more efficient parsing of documents using VS Code specific APIs for Emmet actions that need parsed files.Provide multi cursor support for most of the Emmet actions.Provide Emmet abbreviation expansions in the suggestion/auto-completion list.For example, this approach has allowed us to: This modular approach was taken to allow editor plugins to use the editor specific APIs for better Emmet integration with the editor features. You can find these modules on npm under emmetio. There are also separate modules for parsing HTML and CSS documents to aid in implementing the rest of the Emmet features. There are now separate npm modules from for the different parts of the pipeline required to expand an Emmet abbreviation. The author of Emmet, Sergey Chikuyonok, envisioned a new world for Emmet 2.0 with smaller, re-usable modules. Previously, the Emmet library was a single monolithic codebase that was used for every Emmet action. Read on to learn about the Emmet 2.0 changes in Visual Studio Code. Note: To continue to expand Emmet abbreviations and snippets using the Tab key, set iggerExpansionOnTab to true. They can be selected like any other smart completion and on selection, the abbreviation will be expanded. Instead, Emmet abbreviations will now appear in the suggestion list. Updated support for custom Emmet snippets.Īs part of this update, we have re-written all of the Emmet actions using new npm modules from important change is that the Tab key is no longer the default way to expand Emmet abbreviations.

Multi-cursor support for most Emmet actions.Emmet abbreviation expansions in suggestion/auto-completion lists.Node.js Development with Visual Studio Code and AzureĪugRamya Rao, the July 2017 release of Visual Studio Code (version 1.15), we're shipping a better Emmet experience which has been in preview for the past 2 releases.Moving from Local to Remote Development.

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