Find a way to access zen abbreviations using tab completions

[onecrayon]

Will likely need a script to parse the zen dictionary and output action XML for each abbreviation to be run as part of setup.py.

Need to look into whether I can access previous word as part of a tab trigger.

Original discussion thread: http://wiki.macrabbit.com/forums/viewreply/2901/

[ttscoff]

Don't know if it helps, but the way the TextMate bundle for Zen Coding is set up, I can have whatever I want as a trailing tab trigger and it's ignored when the line is processed. I'm just using a comma (,) as the trigger now, so I end a zen coding string with a comma and hit tab…

[onecrayon]

Thanks, I'll take a look at the Textmate implementation! Having a comma-tab (or similar) tab completion that then parses the word before the comma is an interesting idea.

[3zzy]

Checking to see if there's any progress on this functionality? I've been using zen-coding tab-triggers on Textmate for months now but miss the auto-complete. My demo will expire shortly, would love to see this working ASAP. Many thanks!

[onecrayon]

Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to get this done in the next few days. If you'd like to try the comma-delimited tab trigger, though, here's how to set it up:

1. Enable custom user actions in Actions->TEA->Preferences

2. Create this XML file:

   ~/Library/Application Support/Espresso/Support/TextActions/Actions.xml

With these contents:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<action-recipes>
    <action id="com.onecrayon.TextActions.ExpandTabTrigger" category="actions.text.HTML/tea.insertion">
        <class>TEAforEspresso</class>
        <title>Expand Tab Trigger</title>
        <text-trigger>,</text-trigger>
        <setup>
            <action>word_to_snippet</action>
            <options>
                <dict>
                    <key>default</key>
                    <string>&lt;$SELECTED_TEXT>$1&lt;/$WORD>$0</string>

                    <key>extra_characters</key>
                    <string>_-#.>+*:$!@</string>

                    <key>mode</key>
                    <string>zen</string>

                    <key>undo_name</key>
                    <string>Expand Tab Trigger</string>
                </dict>
            </options>
        </setup>
    </action>
</action-recipes>

Relaunch Espresso twice and you'll be able to type any zen coding snippet followed by comma+tab and it'll expand just like if you'd hit control-comma.

I'd still like to get zen-coding's abbreviations as full tab-triggers (no comma needed), so I'll let you know if/when that makes it into the main TEA plugin.