bug#22923: [PATCH] Support completion of attribute values in CSS mode

[Simen Heggestøyl]

Hello!

I've finally gotten around to implement property value completion in

CSS mode. I've been using the attached patch privately for some weeks

now, and it seems to me that it works well.

The code has taken much inspiration from company-css.el, but there are

some differences:

- Completion lists for many new properties have been added, and a few

  have been removed (most of them from the obsoleted marquee

  module [1]).

- I've manually updated all completion lists according to the CSS spec

  and fixed some bugs in the existing lists along the way. In general

  I've tried to stay as close as possible to the grammar described in

  the CSS spec wrt. names and order of the values and classes.

- The new `css--property-values' function is very similar to

  `company-css-property-values', but it has been updated to support

  following completion candidates further from the value class

  completion lists.

- Completion a function name will no longer put commas between the

  parenthesis. My reason for this is that many CSS functions take a

  variable number of arguments. For instance, the `translate' function

  is completed by company-css to `translate(,)', but `translate' can

  take only one argument too, so the completion is misleading. Also,

  there are functions that support an arbitrary number of

  arguments. Instead of trying to support this, I've made every

  function name complete to just `function()'. I think having ElDoc

  support for CSS functions would be good for making it easier to

  remember which arguments functions take.

- `inherit' has been added as a completion candidate for every

  property.

Please have a look at the patch and tell me what you think!

-- Simen

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-marquee/

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