SnipMate interacts poorly with Vim autoformatting

[llinfeng]

I admit it is bad habit to use long variable names. This leads to long variable names and auto-completion becomes a must for me.

Snipmate does not like my autocompletion. I am not using anything fancy, but just plain <C-N> and <C-P>. However, whenever I touch these two key-strokes, snipmate stops to function after that point. It completes the word, but will distort the rest of the line at which it automatically updates. Here is the snippet that I have trouble:

    eststo: qui areg ${1:LHS} \$${2:Dfdn_traits}, absorb(${3:FE}) cluster(${4:clustering_variable}) 
    foreach j of varlist $2 {
        disp "\`j'"
            eststo: qui  areg $1  \`j', absorb($3) cluster($4) 
    }
    esttab using $Tex/05_ScreeningADA_yearlyIV_monthly_FE.tex, replace se
    eststo clear

Another problem is that: Snipmate does not like auto-linebreak, when it "syncs" the $1's. When I reach 80 characters at the first line, with my long variable name, I will get a hard wrap at that point. When I reach such point, the line where $4 is located is also distorted in a way that the "filling-in" of characters from $4 defined above just stops, leaving an incomplete variable name in this line.

Both of the two obstacles distorts the experience with using snipmate.

As a way around, I now type the full variable names and have turned off the hard-wrapping at 80 characters.

Thanks again for making Snipmate possible for Vimmers.

[ajzafar]

For your second problem, indeed SnipMate currently interacts poorly with Vim's text formatting. For the time being I'm afraid there's little option besides disabling the formatting while you're expanding/editing a snippet.

I'm not sure I understand your first problem. (GitHub seems to have eaten a few characters in your message. GitHub uses Markdown, so be sure to separate code with backticks like so: <C-X>.) If you mean problems occur when you use Vim's regular insert mode completion with <C-N> and <C-P>, then be sure to leave select mode before hitting either key. Neither does completion in select mode, and both do in fact seem to cause problems. I will look into what can be done about that soon. In any case, work around this by going to insert mode before trying to use insert mode completion.

[ajzafar]

@llinfeng I am no longer able to reproduce your first problem in the just-pushed master.

[llinfeng]

Yeah, I confirm that the snipmate is working well now with <C-N> and <C-P> expansions. Thank you for making this possible.

All the best,

-Linfeng