
Emmet is developed and optimised for web-developers whose workflow depends on HTML/XML and CSS, but can be used with programming languages too. While snippets are a good way to boost your productivity, all implementations have common pitfalls: you have to define the snippet first and you can’t extend them in runtime.Įmmet takes the snippets idea to a whole new level: you can type CSS-like expressions that can be dynamically parsed, and produce output depending on what you type in the abbreviation. Run: īasically, most text editors out there allow you to store and re-use commonly used code chunks, called “snippets”. Tooltip: Traverse between important code points with “Next/Previous Edit Point” action ::: “Next Edit Point” (Ctrl-Alt-→) “Previous Edit Point” (Ctrl-Alt-←) Tooltip: Run “Expand Abbreviation” action to expand it into HTML ::: “Expand Abbreviation” (Tab key)

Emmet - the essential toolkit for web-developersĮmmet is a web-developer’s toolkit that can greatly improve your HTML & CSS workflow:
