This may be a non-issue if I'm migrating to Objective-C for TEALoader (or if TEALoader gets replaced by ESShellScript).

This will probably be fixed by converting to Objective-C, so I'm going to hold off on looking into it.

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…

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.

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!

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.

For 1.0, I've switched to using English (since it's more convenient for me personally, ethnocentric as it may be). However, something needs to change in Zen's internal architecture and logic to allow this to be easily set to arbitrary values based on the user's preferences.

This may involve forking zen and taking it down my own path; not sure how willing the zen folks will be to implement this kind of thing.

I'm bumping this back to "potential" instead of a 1.0 feature because it's going to be somewhat tricky to implement. Covering scenarios such as mixed indentation, how to parse based on indentation of snippet vs. indentation of text, etc. are all going to make this more complicated than I originally thought.

Now that I'm converting to Objective-C for the core classes, this is probably a possibility. Things I'd like to do:

• Vary title based on syntax-context
• Vary title based on selection-context

Question is how to do it in XML that isn't so verbose as to be useless?

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