UltiSnips

Not able to get inword/word boundary insertion working

Asked by Matt

I have some snippets that insert simple erb (embedded Ruby) tags into HTML files. If I try to insert one of these tags immediately following another HTML tag, I'd like it to expand the snippet even without any whitespace.

My understanding is that a snippet like the following should expand no matter what's in front of it:

  snippet erb i
       <% ${1:code} %>

And that a snippet like the following should expand if there is a ">" in front of it, but not a word character:

  snippet erb w
       <% ${1:code} %>

But that's not happening. I'm running Ultisnips in the fairly common use case of YCM/Supertab; it seems relevant that these erb snippets ARE showing up as candidates for expansion, but then when one of them is selected and I tab to select it for expansion, I just go to the next candidate in the popup menu.

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SirVer (sirver) said : 		#1

That you can see the snippets in the completion is an indication that UltiSnips works okay. Maybe you have some trouble like here: https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips/issues/512

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Matt (mattmdavis) said : 		#2

I took apart the whole YouCompleteMe/SuperTab/UltiSnips stack to test them
one at a time. It's definitely Ultisnips creating this behavior.

If I type "er" with preceding whitespace, and hit the key for
UltiSnipsListSnippets, I get four candidates listed in a window at the
bottom of my vim buffer.

If I type "er" with a preceding ">" character, from the HTML tag directly
ahead of it, and hit the key for UltiSnipsListSnippets, it appears to be
inserting a literal tab character, and the window at the bottom of the
buffer does not appear. Changing the keystroke that invokes
UltiSnipsListSnippets from <c-tab> (the default) to <c-l> made no
difference in this behavior.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 6:51 AM, SirVer <<email address hidden>
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> SirVer proposed the following answer:
> That you can see the snippets in the completion is an indication that
> UltiSnips works okay. Maybe you have some trouble like here:
> https://github.com/SirVer/ultisnips/issues/512
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SirVer (sirver) said : 		#3

I suggest opening a detailed, reproducible bug report here: https://github.com/sirver/ultisnips. I am no longer maintaining UltiSnips, but seletsky is very good at tracking down bugs.

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