So yes, I'm aware that I can type lorem5*3<tab> to get emmet to generate 3 lines of text where the last 2 lines are always random. Unfortunately, the FIRST line is always the same: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet." I'm currently trying to replace random manually-written text in a pre-existing HTML file with random "lorem ipsum" generated content instead, but I obviously don't want every instance to begin with "Lorem ipsum". Is there a trick to doing this in VSCode? Perhaps a configuration setting that tells emmet to always begin randomly? I need a way to either suppress the first line or to make it random.
Ideally, I'd be able to do this with VSCode's built-in Emmet, but an extension as a fallback would be fine, too.
Your concern is valid and luckily there's a solution, that can be found in the official Emmet documentation. In
preferences.json, this configuration is by default set tofalse:So it seems the solution is to set it to
true, isn't it? Simply, yay!Not really, actually we're talking about VSCode. There's no support to this functionality yet according to their docs. Thus, since this customization is not supported, they advise:
So if you don't mind waiting try logging that request and your problem may be addressed sooner or later (or never)