Ultisnips¤

        -- the machinery
        use "SirVer/ultisnips"
        -- tons of language snippets
        use "honza/vim-snippets"

let g:UltiSnipsSnippetsDir = "~/.config/nvim/ultisnips"
let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<tab>"
let g:UltiSnipsJumpForwardTrigger="<tab>"
let g:UltiSnipsJumpBackwardTrigger="<s-tab>"

Options¤

w: Only expand when its a full word
b: Only at beginning of line
A: Autoexpand when expansion crits are met

Cool Stuffs¤

:Snippets in vim and you get an FZF list of all snippets defined for the current buffer TODO: Add the content...
for html its pure joy: any tagname -> TAB -> done

Gotchas¤

configure in init.vim not in lua

[2021-08-18 00:55]

Drove me crazy that lua based config in packer did only work ...50%, e.g. the second parameter never hightlighted, jumps wrong, tab not working. GRR.

Simple solution:

Do this:

    let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionType = "<c-n>"
    let g:UltiSnipsSnippetsDir = "~/.config/nvim/ultisnips"
    let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<tab>"
    let g:UltiSnipsJumpForwardTrigger="<tab>"
    let g:UltiSnipsJumpBackwardTrigger="<s-tab>"

instead of:

    use "SirVer/ultisnips"
        config = function()
            vim.g.UltiSnipsSnippetsDir = "~/.config/nvim/ultisnips"
            vim.g.UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories = {"ultisnips"}
            vim.g.UltiSnipsJumpForwardTrigger = {"<tab>"}
        end
    }

and it works like a charm.

Advanced¤

Dynamic Tabstop Generation - in general: how to modify the body programmatically, incl variables you set at invokation
See also the logbook

Resources¤

tutorial

Youtube

Taking Advantage of Using Snippets with UltiSnips and Vim-Snippets

0:00 -- What we'll cover in this video
0:49 -- Adding a div + paragraph with and without using snippets
2:08 -- Using snippets from multiple file types in the same file
4:06 -- Dealing with multiple snippets that have the same name
4:58 -- Using snippets in a Python file
5:56 -- Fuzzy finding available snippets using Vim FZF
7:36 -- Skimming the README file for UltiSnips and vim-snippets
8:41 -- Installing both Vim plugins with Vim Plug
9:38 -- Looking at a few Markdown / podcast related custom snippets
12:29 -- Looking at few more Markdown / blog related custom snippets
14:07 -- Defining your own custom snippets
16:31 -- Why I prefer using snippets over using language servers