I’ve pushed a new version of the robot framework plugin for brackets. This version has improved coding hinting support. Code hints now behave a bit more like other editors.

There is also now some basic support for hinting variables. If you type “${“, a list of all variables in the current file will be presented. I’ll be improving this in future releases to include variables defined in resource files.

Another feature is a special shortcut vv – type vv at the start of a cell to automatically insert ${}, move the cursor inside the curly braces, and bring up the list of variables. It’s a seemingly simple thing, but seems to add to the editing experience by cutting down the number of times you have to type cumbersome characters.

Finally, keyword hints (when you press control-space in a place where a keyword is likely) now includes local keywords. Prior to this change it only picked up keywords in external libraries and resource files.

For more information, see the Changelog