Is there support for XML code hinting / completion in Sublime Text 2?

Question

I am giving Sublime Text 2 a try and I was editing an XML file - that had a DOCTYPE declaration and a DTD - and there seems to be no way to get code hinting / completion when editing the XML document.

I am sure its something simple I am overlooking. I cannot imagine Sublime does not have this kind of functionality, even if provided via a plugin.

Can someone shed some light on this for me?

Answer 1

Sublime Text is first and foremost a text editor. But, the reason for it's popularity is in large part due to it's extensibility.

Although you could use Sublime's api to create a specific plug-in to do this, Sublime has a few tools that are already helpful in editing xml files and other markup files on a bare install.

Hinting and completions in particular are very easy to add. It shouldn't take a more than few minutes to create a domain specific sublime-completions file for your particular xml. You can use alt+shift+w to create an xml element, in addition alt+. will close any un-closed xml element.

You may also want to try the Sublime Tag plug-in available through Package Control

Lastly you could also bring this up in the Sublime forums as a plug-in request. There are a lot of helpful folks in the plug-in community.