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Expand snippets if only partial prefix of the trigger word is typed #1207

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danijar opened this issue Apr 13, 2020 · 4 comments
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Expand snippets if only partial prefix of the trigger word is typed #1207

danijar opened this issue Apr 13, 2020 · 4 comments
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@danijar danijar commented Apr 13, 2020

I would like to write snippets that can be expanded after typing only a part of the trigger word. For example, i, im, imp, impo, impor should all expand to import when followed by the trigger key, e.g. Tab. This is helpful because one may think of a snippet after having already typed a couple of characters of a code construct. At the moment, this is possible through somewhat complicated regexes, making it hard to define such snippets. Is this supported in an easier way? If not, would it make sense to add a snippet option for this?
@danijar danijar changed the title How to insert snippets by only typing partial prefix of the trigger word? Typing only partial prefix of the trigger word? Apr 13, 2020
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@danijar danijar commented Apr 13, 2020 •
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Nevermind, I found #268. You're mentioning completers that are better suited for this use case. Which ones were you thinking of? By the way, I think it would be perfectly fine if this didn't work for regex triggers if it were added as a feature.

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@tbrazel tbrazel commented Apr 15, 2020

As you noted, the regex for this would be rough: i(?:m(?:p(?:o(?:r(?:t?)?)?))?)? Personally I would also love the feature that you're proposing and that was proposed in #268.

One popular completer is deoplete, and many people swear by it.

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@danijar danijar commented Apr 15, 2020 •
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Thanks for sharing the regex. If this worked it should be really easy to add this feature as a snippet option to UltiSnips.

I'm using droplete but so far it seems to fill quite a different use case than triggering snippets that may include anchors for the cursor to jump to etc.

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@SirVer SirVer commented Feb 15, 2021

Yes, this would not be a hard feature to add. I came around to it as maybe being a good idea to implement and would love to see a patch for it.

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@SirVer SirVer changed the title Typing only partial prefix of the trigger word? Expand snippets if only partial prefix of the trigger word is typed Feb 15, 2021
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