All 'F5' edit menu commands greyed out

[Riccardo Perotti]

Greetings.

No matter what language I'm in, the four 'F5' commands in the Edit menu:

• Complete
• Show Symbol Help
• Show Parameter Help
• Expand Emmet Abbreviation

... are always greyed out.

What's happening?

Using BBEdit  14.1.12  in a Mac running 10.14.6

Thank you!

Riccardo Perotti

[Rich Siegel]

On 11 Aug 2023, at 7:15, Riccardo Perotti wrote:

> Greetings.
> No matter what language I'm in, the four 'F5' commands in the Edit menu:
>

> - Complete
> - Show Symbol Help
> - Show Parameter Help
> - Expand Emmet Abbreviation

>
> ... are always greyed out.
>
> What's happening?

That is probably a good question for Tech Support; but the last three commands in particular require external installations; either language servers for BBEdit's LSP support <https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/lsp-notes.html> or Emmet <https://emmet.io/>.

R.


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[Riccardo Perotti]

Thank you for the response, Rich.

That's the thing, I DO have the language servers for the languages I tested (PHP, Go, Perl, CSS, HTML, etc.) and they are working as expected, afaict, except for this.

I'll write to Tech Support.

Thank you!