vim-vsnip VS friendly-snippets

My go to these days has been https://github.com/hrsh7th/vim-vsnip. It is compatible with LSP and VSCode snippet format. Since it is in pure VimScript you don’t need to battle configuring python just to get the plug-in to work.

I first started by reading some tutorials but most of those used parser combinators. For me, parser combinators always caused some issues sooner or later (at least in Lua when trying to parse recursive / nested nodes). An example project that uses this technique is vim-vsnip: https://github.com/hrsh7th/vim-vsnip/blob/master/autoload/vsnip/snippet/parser.vim. Later, I found out that Luacheck uses a different approach which I liked better: https://github.com/lunarmodules/luacheck/blob/master/src/luacheck/parser.lua. That's the project that helped me the most while writing my own parsers for different snippet engines.

This plugin could use it? hrsh7th/vim-vsnip

I am not a snippets expert, I don't even currently use snippets. However, I know that both LuaSnip and vim-vsnip can load these vscode style snippets. So my recommendation would be to get the snippets and use one of those two snippet plugins.

For autocompletion I use the nvim-cmp plugin. If you're not coding, it might be overkill. But during writing it helps me a lot, because it autosuggests words that I used in the current buffer, too. The most popular autocomplete plugins should be compatible with the most popular snippets engines like vim-vsnip.

Have you ever wondered how to have a snippet completion in VSCode so you can write Julia code fast but in Neovim? Fear not! vim-vsnip is the plugin you need. This plugin supports LSP/VSCode's snippet format. But first, you need to install cmp-vsnip for this plugin to be sourced to nvim-cmp. Oh btw, these three plugins: nvim-cmp, vim-vsnip, and cmp-vsnip → are made by the same person which is actually cool! If you want to support them, become a sponsor! (I am poor so I cannot sponsor yet 😔)

I believe you want the second variant. Then you should install some snippet plugin like vsnip or luasnip and config it with your completion engine.

https://github.com/hrsh7th/vim-vsnip says it supports vscode style snippets, so apparently you could use https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kaffeine.advanced-drupal-8-snippets with that plugin.

Those definitely seem to be coming from friendly-snippets, so it seems like it's not being disabled. You can verify this with the :Lazy command to bring up the lazy.nvim menu then checking log or debug to see what is loaded, when, and why.

Here you go :), tested with friendly-snippets lazy loaded (Non lazy-loaded is 500ms)

Snippets for code comments.

I am trying to add snippets for python, i have LuaSnip and friendly-snippets installed, but for some reason it does not load the snippets. This is how i load the plugins:

I just sent [this PR](https://github.com/rafamadriz/friendly-snippets/pull/301) that implements the [full TSdoc specification](https://typedoc.org/guides/overview/) in [friently-snippets](https://github.com/rafamadriz/friendly-snippets). In practice what you get is autocompletion in your typescript comments, which should be a nice of life improvement for most typescript developers.

You mean snippets? If yes, you can try Luasnip and friendly-snippets with nvim-cmp and here's the setup guide. Hope it helps

For example Luasnip with (I guess) friendly-snippets has multi line snippets defined by default. And you can use luasnip with nvim-cmp (read the docs or I guess there’s a YouTube tutorial)

If you copied the config in the readme, then the snippet come from friendly-snippets.

I would recommend lsp-zero, the tsserver lsp provides code actions for auto import. There is auto import when confirming completion as well, I've seen it working with cmp, however I can't remember If that is out of the box behaviour. For snippets, I would go with LuaSnip - It's very versatile snippet engine and it integrates well with many snippet formats. There are specifically react es7 snippet definitions in the friendly-snippets repo which can be used by LuaSnip - https://github.com/rafamadriz/friendly-snippets/blob/main/snippets/javascript/react-es7.json