Cudatext: CSS autocomplete is incomplete

[d-mal]

A minor issue:
The file https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText/blob/master/app/data/autocompletespec/css_list.ini has not had an update for five years. It does not contain any keywords for grid or flex (without prefixes), and I guess a lot of other things have made it into the specs since then. Does a ready-made update exist somewhere?

...edit: This seems pretty authoritative: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/all-properties.en.html

[Alexey-T]

We have no update, until someone makes it.

[d-mal]

OK, so I apparently had too much time...

I got the tab-separated values list from the W3C and removed the drafts, only to later add a few working drafts that seem to be well in use already (checking with MDN and Caniuse).
Then I went manually through all the new keywords and added the possible values. Also some of the existing CSS properties were updated when I noticed a change in the specs. I'm sure I overlooked many more changes, but adding missing values can be done quickly. Maybe removing deprecated keys and values would make sense, too, but I did not search for those. The vendor-prefixed keys at the end of the list were not changed. Inclusion of the global values "inherit,initial,unset" is pretty random. I did not try to sort the values in any way.

Here's the updated file:
https://gist.github.com/d-mal/ad69f30e230a2f2b7182963efe2e25eb

[Alexey-T]

Good. So I can use this file, it seems. Let's wait some days, maybe you will fix issues you mentioned..

[Alexey-T]

has used this list, even in current state it's ok. will be in next update. Tks.

[d-mal]

I've just updated the gist again, mostly because there were wrong values in the old list, like border-left-color=color. So I replaced those with something valid and more useful... and I updated the "named colors" in a few places, but not everywhere where they might be used.

[d-mal]

How could you get autocomplete to work for the selector side of CSS?
I was thinking of "at-rules" like @media, @page, @font-face and maybe pseudo-classes and -elements like :hover, :active, ::before, ::after. Would be cool if you could type an "@" or ":" and use autocomplete to choose from the options.

[Alexey-T]

Lets make new file css_selectors.ini (or better name?) with 2 sections [@] [:], and I will try to use it. simple list of values like

:hover
:active

[d-mal]

Sorry, I had another smaller update to the gist ("transparent" seems to be a valid value for color everywhere...)

[d-mal]

Lets make new file css_selectors.ini (or better name?) with 2 sections [@] [:], and I will try to use it. simple list of values like

:hover
:active

OK, I tried, does this look right?
https://gist.github.com/d-mal/aa73118475aca1f8dfaa6d39276ab948

I took the rules from MDN and left out those that were marked as experimental.

[d-mal]

Hmm, can the :pseudo-classes and ::elements even work with autocomplete? They need to follow directly after a selector without a whitespace, so you would be typing button: and then press ctrl-space hoping for the autocomplete list. If you type button : and activate autocomplete, you are producing invalid CSS :-(

[Alexey-T]

yes, updates are ok.
yes, completion will work, I just coded it for an hour.
good editor update, it will be.

[Alexey-T]

Beta
http://www.uvviewsoft.com/c/
we have new file, data/autocompletespec/css_sel.ini. welcome to update it.

Pls test.

Edit. I dont know CSS good, so missed some tests

[Alexey-T]

Fixed it, pls test, beta updated. @d-mal

[d-mal]

Wow, you're fast! With a quick test I found no problems, it works very well!
I think this will make me enjoy my work even more. Thank you so much, that's real customer service ;-)

[Alexey-T]

As a thank-you, I welcome some YouTube review (not short) or blog post on a good site (not short)

[d-mal]

Sorry, I don't have a YouTube account and no blog either -- I'll just have to continue to tell everyone how good CudaText is personally or in forums or wherever else...