LuaSnip

javadoc.mp4

Features

• Tabstops
• Text-Transformations using Lua functions
• Conditional Expansion
• Defining nested Snippets
• Filetype-specific Snippets
• Choices
• Dynamic Snippet creation
• Regex-Trigger
• Fast, small, simple
• Parse LSP-Style Snippets (Does not, however, support Regex-Transformations)
• Expand LSP-Snippets with nvim-compe
• Snippet history (jump back into older snippets)

Drawbacks

• Snippets that make use of the entire functionality of this plugin have to be defined in Lua.

Requirements

Neovim >= 0.5 (extmarks)

Setup

• Install using eg. vim-plug
• Add mappings (Example from my config)

  imap <silent><expr> <Tab> luasnip#expand_or_jumpable() ? '<Plug>luasnip-expand-or-jump' : '<Tab>' 
  inoremap <silent> <S-Tab> <cmd>lua require'luasnip'.jump(-1)<Cr>
  
  snoremap <silent> <Tab> <cmd>lua require('luasnip').jump(1)<Cr>
  snoremap <silent> <S-Tab> <cmd>lua require('luasnip').jump(-1)<Cr>
  
  imap <silent><expr> <C-E> luasnip#choice_active() ? '<Plug>luasnip-next-choice' : '<C-E>'
  smap <silent><expr> <C-E> luasnip#choice_active() ? '<Plug>luasnip-next-choice' : '<C-E>'

• Add Snippets: Snippets have to be added to the require'luasnip'.snippets-table. Examples contains more details, for actual snippets take a look at examples or my Snippets.

For Supertab-like functionality with compe, check out #1.

Config

• history: If true, Snippets that were exited can still be jumped back into. As Snippets are not removed when their text is deleted, they have to be removed manually via LuasnipUnlinkCurrent.
• updateevents: Choose which events trigger an update of the active nodes' dependents. Default is just 'InsertLeave', 'TextChanged,TextChangedI' would update on every change.

Inspired by vsnip.vim

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