Emmet: svg abbreviations dont work

[ramya-rao-a]

Update: We can now support svg abbreviations but only after mapping the current language mode to "svg" in emmet.syntaxProfiles setting.

We should investigate having svg as an embedded language like we do for html inside jsx

Testing #11139

• VSCode Version: 1.5.0- Insiders (dated 8/31)
• OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create svg file. Type gl and hit TAB

As per the abbreviations in lib/snippets.json#L892, gl should have expanded to <glyph>
Instead, it expands to <gl></gl>

Same result with other abbreviations for svg

Similarly, if you associate any language with svg syntax profile, you cannot get any abbreviations expansion.

[ramya-rao-a]

This might be because the svg files are associated with xml language mode.

Other file types like haml, slim, sass, styl and stylus have plaintext as their language mode. But none of these have any extra abbreviations or snippets like svg. Therefore one can set xml or css as language mode for these file types to get xml/html emmet features.

But svg has loads of extra emmet abbreviations that we are losing out on.

[mrmlnc]

@ramya-rao-a,

Unfortunately, we do not support SVG with Emmet.

VS Code used Emmet v1.3.1 (see package.json#L19), but support for SVG in Emmet was added in version 1.4.0 (see emmet/6efa2234cd3a72a9bd1232fa79783a878d556107).

More details on this issue: #9002 (comment).

[ramya-rao-a]

With #19655 we can now support svg abbreviations but only after mapping the current language mode to "svg" in emmet.syntaxProfiles setting.

We should investigate having svg as an embedded language like we do for html inside jsx

[ramya-rao-a]

Closing this issue as there is no sufficient interest from the community in getting this done.
We can revisit if there is any interest in the future