Build-in Emmet support

[prytlubomir]

Emmet is essential for meaningful HTML work, yet Zed provides no support for it.

Without Emmet, creating and expanding HTML structures becomes unreasonably burdensome and fundamentally impractical.

There is an extension called "Emmet", but right now it does nothing, and has not been updated in a while.

Relying on a community extension for a feature this important is not viable due to its unreliability.

It must be a built-in feature, because the current Extension API is likely not extensive enough to support it.

I want to switch to Zed, but I still have to use VSCode for all my web dev work because of this problem.

[JonGretar]

Not sure what you mean.
The emmet extension works perfectly.
And last updated last week.

Is there some uncommon language or template language that you are using it in?

[prytlubomir]

It was not working at all. Not a single feature. It was literally just doing nothing.

I was trying to fix it for a bit, so I added this issue a few days after discovering the problem, and I didn’t notice that the extension had been updated.

After your comment, I checked again, and it does appear that the latest update resolved it.

But the point stands:

Emmet is important enough that it should not depend on a community extension. It needs official support so that editor updates do not break it in the future.

[JonGretar]

Is emmet built into anything except VSCode?

[prytlubomir]

Every JetBrains IDE

[dimitrysh]

@prytlubomir were you able to make it work? Because I tried reinstalling it exactly right now and still have the same behaviour: it doesn't work as expected (at all) when I write html-structures.

Instead of:

• div.some-class -> tab -> supposed to expand into <div class="some-class"></div>

I simply get:

• div.some-class -> tab -> doesn't expand and simply enters tab symbol staying like div.some-class

[prytlubomir]

It started working after updating to the latest Zed version and installing Emmet.

[dimitrysh]

Do you have any suggestions if this doesn't help?

Upd: I uninstalled Zed completely (I'm on MasOs) and it helped. I'll see maybe there was some conflicting extension, maybe something else.

Another update: seems like for me the issue was in using Angular extension which turns Angular language for html files. Here is an open issue which is not yet resolved: nathansbradshaw/zed-angular#33