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Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:19:44 GMT

Phew! Seems like it's finally working. Thanks for all the help! For anyone else reading this in the future, here's the summary of how this was all resolved:

1. Help > Show Extensions Folder, then go up 1 level to the Edge Code CC folder

2. Drag brackets.json file to Edge Code CC to edit it

3. If you get rid of everything that starts with "edge-code-kuler", you end up with a very clean document that looks something like this:

{

"insertHintOnTab": true,

"UserSurveyReminder": 0,

"DefaultEditorPrompted": true,

"closeBrackets": true,

"useTabChar": false

}

There may be extra bits depending on other preferences, but this is what mine looked like when it was successful. Note opening and closing curly brackets, the lack of curly quotes, and the commas after everything except the last one.

4. Save and close the application and restart.

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:12:22 GMT

I found 2 errors (using the JSONLint Extension, btw):

The last line is:

"useTabChar": false,

In JSON, commas are *separators*, not *terminators*, so last item cannot have a trailing comma. Delete it.

There is some invalid syntax in the Kuler prefs. Delete all 5 lines that starts with "edge-code-kuler".

HTH,

Randy

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:56:18 GMT

I appreciate you looking into this for me, Randy. I did notice the curly quotes and had changed them.

Dropbox - brackets.json

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:36:56 GMT

Can you post a copy of your file somewhere and add a link here?

Note: I made a silly error recently when I copied a setting out of an e-mail and I didn't notice that Outlook had converted the double-quote chars to curly quotes (which is not valid -- needs to be single or double quotes). JSON data is essentially JavaScript code, to it has to be very exact.

Randy

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:48:40 GMT

Yes, this error pops up a bunch of times in the console log:

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:21:52 GMT

That's only slightly different, but it's still Code Hints, and that scenario also works for me.

Open a Chrome browser window, go to localhost:9235, then click on link to Edge Code -- this takes you to the Developer Tools. Switch to the Console tab and let us know if there are any errors.

Do you have any extensions installed? This article describes how to disable extensions to see if there may be a conflict: Troubleshooting · adobe/brackets Wiki · GitHub

You could also try installing the JSONLint extension to see if there are any syntax errors in your preferences file:

https://github.com/ingorichter/de.richter.brackets.jsonlint

Randy

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:04:20 GMT

Yes, we are indeed doing different things. I'm trying to get this to work in a CSS file. So for example, I type this:

.testclass {

And then I start to type "text-align". I type "tex" and then "text-align" comes up as a suggestion. That's what I'd like to insert on tab.

- p

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 03:11:52 GMT

I just added that preference to my Edge Code CC preferences and it works for me.

I'm on Windows 7 -- what OS/version are you on?

Maybe you're referring to something different than I am. I opened an HTML page, put the cursor before the closing '>' of a tag, and inserted a space. This invoked the Code Hints menu with a list of attributes for that tag, I used up/down arrows to select the one I wanted, and then hit Tab key and it was inserted in my page. Does that work for you?

Please provide a recipe for what you are doing, what you are expecting to happen, and what is actually happening.

Randy

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:11:58 GMT

It says I'm running the latest build: experimental build 0.98.0-359086273

I guess this is why it's experimental, huh?

- Paul

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:46:28 GMT

Which version of Edge Code are you running? This relies on the new preferences mechanism, so be sure you're on the latest version.

Randy

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:38:20 GMT

That's what I had done. My brackets.json document starts like this:

{

"insertHintOnTab": true,

"edge-code-kuler.KULER_URLS": "{\"MY_KULER_THEMES\":true,\"FAVORITE_KULER_THEMES\":true,\"POPULAR_KULER_THEMES\":true,\ "RANDOM_KULER_THEMES\":true}",

And then goes on to define other Kuler settings. It's in there, it's saved, yet I'm still just getting tab spacing when I try to autocomplete with tab. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but it's a bit frustrating.

- Paul

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:19:00 GMT

JSON properties are comma separated, so you'll need to put a comma on the end of the previous item.

Or you could add this line after the opening curly bracket (aka brace):

"insertHintOnTab": true,

Randy

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:33:22 GMT

Hey Randy,

Thanks for this. I tried entering the specified line just before the last curly bracket, and even after a save, exit of Edge Code and relaunch, it still doesn't seem to work... Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but I'd really like this to work. Have you got it working in your copy? Can you provide a copy of your entire brackets.json file for me to paste into mine to make sure my syntax is okay?

- p

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:00:44 GMT

There's an easier way to do this now:

1. Help > Show Extensions Folder, then go up 1 level to the Edge Code CC folder

2. Drag brackets.json file to Edge Code CC to edit it

3. Add this setting: "insertHintOnTab": true

4. Save file

You can see other preferences here: How to Use Brackets · adobe/brackets Wiki · GitHub

Randy

Re: Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 07:17:31 GMT

Have you had a look at this?

Is there a way to change the autocomplete keyboard shortcut to tab instead of enter?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:49:18 GMT

All other coding software I've ever used uses tab instead of enter to accept the autocomplete suggestion. In fact, Chrome's Inspect Element does the same thing. It's frustrating to switch between those two pieces of software and have two different buttons for the same task, that do drastically different things when pressed in the opposite program. Is there a way I can change it in Edge Code?