Emmet kicks in when editing pure xml documents

[fbricon]

• VSCode Version: 1.45.0 and 1.46.0-insiders
• OS Version: macOS Catalina 10.15.4

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create an xml document. containing

<a>

</a>

2. Within the <a> tag, start typing a, emmet proposes a *ton of snippets.

Emmet should not contribute to xml completion with unrelated HTML bloat.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[iamkacperwasik]

As the docs says:

Emmet abbreviation and snippet expansions are enabled by default in html, haml, pug, slim, jsx, xml, xsl, css, scss, sass, less and stylus files, as well as any language that inherits from any of the above like handlebars and php.

Read here for more info.

You can disable emmet for xml in settings.json like so

"emmet.excludeLanguages": [
    "xml"
]

Hope it's what you were looking for 😃

[rzhao271]

I forgot that workaround existed.
I still think that XML, even when Emmet is enabled, shouldn't output HTML abbreviations, though, which it still does.

[rzhao271]

Reopening because it turns out that now the suggestion hides only when it exactly matches, e.g. a doesn't show the <a> suggestion but still shows all the other HTML suggestions.