Code Hints in Sigil?

oston · 04-09-2024, 12:36 PM

Looking for information about code hints in Sigil, I could only find one thread from 2013 saying code hints were not available "yet" at that time.

Is there now a plugin to support code hints in Sigil?

I find code hints very helpful in Dreamweaver, particularly the hint that shows available classes from your style sheets, when you enter class = " .

Recently I've come to realise that there a many things already in Sigil, that I have never discovered and wonder if code hints is a another of those things.

Jim

DiapDealer · 04-09-2024, 03:03 PM

No, there is no similar feature. And probably won't be (to rip the band aid off). Sigil's Editor should not be thought of as a full-featured code editor. It never will be that. That's why we made it possible for people to use their favorite code editors using Sigil's "Open With" feature (though that may not help present available classes from linked stylesheets in this particular case).

This is also not the sort of thing that would lend itself well to a Sigil plugin. Plugins have no way of altering Sigil's gui experience. So they cannot be used to enhance Code View's feature set.

oston · 04-09-2024, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

No, there is no similar feature. And probably won't be (to rip the band aid off). Sigil's Editor should not be thought of as a full-featured code editor. It never will be that. That's why we made it possible for people to use their favorite code editors using Sigil's "Open With" feature (though that may not help present available classes from linked stylesheets in this particular case).

This is also not the sort of thing that would lend itself well to a Sigil plugin. Plugins have no way of altering Sigil's gui experience. So they cannot be used to enhance Code View's feature set.

Many thanks for the clarification. Understood.
It's not a problem, just wondering if I'd missed something, that's all.

DiapDealer · 04-09-2024, 03:27 PM

Unfortunately, you didn't miss anything this particular time.

04-09-2024, 12:36 PM	#1
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04-09-2024, 03:03 PM	#2
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,557 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	No, there is no similar feature. And probably won't be (to rip the band aid off). Sigil's Editor should not be thought of as a full-featured code editor. It never will be that. That's why we made it possible for people to use their favorite code editors using Sigil's "Open With" feature (though that may not help present available classes from linked stylesheets in this particular case). This is also not the sort of thing that would lend itself well to a Sigil plugin. Plugins have no way of altering Sigil's gui experience. So they cannot be used to enhance Code View's feature set.

04-09-2024, 03:27 PM	#4
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,557 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Unfortunately, you didn't miss anything this particular time.