LuaSnip

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Features

• Tabstops
• Text-Transformations using Lua functions
• Conditional Expansion
• Defining nested Snippets
• Filetype-specific Snippets
• Choices
• Dynamic Snippet creation
• Regex-Trigger
• Autotriggered Snippets
• Fast
• Parse LSP-Style Snippets (Does not, however, support Regex-Transformations)
• Expand LSP-Snippets with nvim-compe (or its' successor, nvim-cmp (requires cmp_luasnip))
• 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 maps

  in vimscript

  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>'

  or in lua (includes supertab-like functionality with nvim-compe)

  local function require(...)
  local status, lib = pcall(require, ...)
  if (status) then return lib end
      return nil
  end
  
  local luasnip = require('luasnip')
  
  local t = function(str)
      return vim.api.nvim_replace_termcodes(str, true, true, true)
  end
  
  local check_back_space = function()
      local col = vim.fn.col('.') - 1
      if col == 0 or vim.fn.getline('.'):sub(col, col):match('%s') then
          return true
      else
          return false
      end
  end
  
  _G.tab_complete = function()
      if vim.fn.pumvisible() == 1 then
          return t "<C-n>"
      elseif luasnip and luasnip.expand_or_jumpable() then
          return t "<Plug>luasnip-expand-or-jump"
      elseif check_back_space() then
          return t "<Tab>"
      else
          return vim.fn['compe#complete']()
      end
  end
  _G.s_tab_complete = function()
      if vim.fn.pumvisible() == 1 then
          return t "<C-p>"
      elseif luasnip and luasnip.jumpable(-1) then
          return t "<Plug>luasnip-jump-prev"
      else
          return t "<S-Tab>"
      end
  end
  
  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("i", "<Tab>", "v:lua.tab_complete()", {expr = true})
  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("s", "<Tab>", "v:lua.tab_complete()", {expr = true})
  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("i", "<S-Tab>", "v:lua.s_tab_complete()", {expr = true})
  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("s", "<S-Tab>", "v:lua.s_tab_complete()", {expr = true})
  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("i", "<C-E>", "<Plug>luasnip-next-choice", {})
  vim.api.nvim_set_keymap("s", "<C-E>", "<Plug>luasnip-next-choice", {})

• Add Snippets: Snippets have to be added to the require'luasnip'.snippets-table.
  To test if LuaSnip works correctly and see some of the capabilities lua-native snippets have, :luafile Examples/snippets.lua.

• Docs: The previously mentioned Examples/snippets.lua contains brief descriptions, check DOC.md (or :help luasnip) for more in-depth explainations.

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.
• store_selection_keys: Mapping for populating TM_SELECTED_TEXT and related variables (not set by default).
• enable_autosnippets: Autosnippets are disabled by default to minimize performance penalty if unused. Set to true to enable.

Inspired by vsnip.vim

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