nvim-snippets

Allow vscode style snippets to be used with native neovim snippets vim.snippet. Also comes with support for friendly-snippets.

Features

• Supports vscode style snippets
• Has builtin support for friendly-snippets
• Uses vim.snippet under the hood for snippet expansion

Requirements

• Requires neovim >= 0.10 (with commit f1775da or later)
• (optional) nvim-cmp for completion support
• (optional) friendly-snippets for pre-built snippets

Installation

Using lazy.nvim

{
  "pianoboy71/nvim-snippets",
  keys = {
    {
      "<Tab>",
      function()
        if vim.snippet.active({ direction = 1 }) then
          vim.schedule(function()
            vim.snippet.jump(1)
          end)
          return
        end
        return "<Tab>"
      end,
      expr = true,
      silent = true,
      mode = "i",
    },
    {
      "<Tab>",
      function()
        vim.schedule(function()
          vim.snippet.jump(1)
        end)
      end,
      expr = true,
      silent = true,
      mode = "s",
    },
    {
      "<S-Tab>",
      function()
        if vim.snippet.active({ direction = -1 }) then
          vim.schedule(function()
            vim.snippet.jump(-1)
          end)
          return
        end
        return "<S-Tab>"
      end,
      expr = true,
      silent = true,
      mode = { "i", "s" },
    },
  },
}

Configuration

Option	Type	Default	Description
create_autocmd	boolean?	false	Optionally load all snippets when opening a file. Only needed if not using nvim-cmp.
create_cmp_source	boolean?	true	Optionally create a nvim-cmp source. Source name will be snippets.
friendly_snippets	boolean?	false	Set to true if using friendly-snippets.
ignored_filetypes	string[]?	nil	Filetypes to ignore when loading snippets.
extended_filetypes	table?	nil	Filetypes to load snippets for in addition to the default ones. ex: {typescript = {'javascript'}}
global_snippets	string[]?	{'all'}	Snippets to load for all filetypes.
search_paths	string[]	{vim.fn.stdpath('config') .. '/snippets'}	Paths to search for snippets.

Example Snippet

{
  "Say hello to the world": {
    "prefix": ["hw", "hello"],
    "body": "Hello, ${1:world}!$0"
  }
}

TODO

• Automatically detect if friendly-snippets is installed
• Add support for friendly-snippets package.json definitions (#31)