Changes: Ctrl-N completion for XML/XSLT attributes

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created January 12, 2007 · complexity basic · author Erik Falor · version n/a

I found myself switching back into lisp mode just to get Ctrl-N to complete really long attribute names containing hyphens. However, that has the undesirable side-effect of goofing up my indentation. I decided to dig in a little deeper and fix Ctrl-N such that it wouldn't take a hyphen to be a word boundary. As an added bonus, it'll include XSL namespace prefixes in its list of words.

Add this to your vimrc:

if has("autocmd")
  autocmd FileType {xml,xslt} setlocal iskeyword=@,-,\:,48-57,_,128-167,224-235
endif "has("autocmd")

Notes

This does not rely on extensions; instead it works on any file which the filetype detection identifies correctly.
It only changes the 'iskeyword' value for that buffer, not globally.

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Comments[]

Shouldn't those word character settings rather be put into the appropriate filetype plugin?

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-I found myself switching back into lisp mode just to get Ctrl-N to complete really long attribute names containing hyphens. However, that has the undesirable side-effect of goofing up my indentation. I decided to dig in a little deeper and fix Ctrl-N such that it wouldn't take a hypen to be a word boundary. As an added bonus, it'll include XSL namespace prefixes in its list of words .
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+I found myself switching back into lisp mode just to get Ctrl-N to complete really long attribute names containing hyphens. However, that has the undesirable side-effect of goofing up my indentation. I decided to dig in a little deeper and fix Ctrl-N such that it wouldn't take a hyphen to be a word boundary. As an added bonus, it'll include XSL namespace prefixes in its list of words.
+Add this to your vimrc:
+<pre>
+if has("autocmd")
+  autocmd FileType {xml,xslt} setlocal iskeyword=@,-,\:,48-57,_,128-167,224-235
+endif "has("autocmd")
+</pre>
+'''Notes'''
-Add this to your .vimrc so that hyphens and colons:
+*This does not rely on extensions; instead it works on any file which the filetype detection identifies correctly.
- if has("autocmd")
+*It only changes the 'iskeyword' value for that buffer, not globally.
-   autocmd FileType {xml,xslt} setlocal iskeyword=@,-,\:,48-57,_,128-167,224-235
- endif "has("autocmd")
-'''Notes:'''
-*this does not rely on extensions; instead it works on any file which the filetype detection identifies correctly.
-*it only changes the 'iskeyword' value for that buffer, not globally.
-}}
 ==References==
 *{{help|:autocommand}}
 *{{help|'isk'}}
+*{{help|file-pattern}}
+==Comments==
+Shouldn't those ''word character'' settings rather be put into the appropriate filetype plugin?
-== Comments ==
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