Can I disable friendly-snippets only for one language?

[hownioni]

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After tinkering around with mini.snippets and overriding the latex snippets from friendly-snippets I noticed I'm better off simply writing my own instead of using the ones provided by default (although I'm using them as inspiration). Is there any way to do this? I've been thinking of removing this part from my config and instead naming my snippet as simply "tex.json" but that seems a bit hacky. Is there any other way to go about doing this?

[abeldekat]

Hello @hownioni,

Can you try:

  local mini_snippets, config_path = require("mini.snippets"), vim.fn.stdpath("config")
  local latex_patterns = { "latex/**/*.json", "**/latex.json" }
  local lang_patterns = { tex = latex_patterns, plaintex = latex_patterns }

  mini_snippets.setup({
    snippets = {
      mini_snippets.gen_loader.from_file(config_path .. "/snippets/global.json"),
      mini_snippets.gen_loader.from_runtime(latex_patterns[1], { all = false }),
      mini_snippets.gen_loader.from_runtime(latex_patterns[2], { all = false }),
      mini_snippets.gen_loader.from_lang({lang_patterns = lang_patterns}),
    },
  })

The order is important. Now, when for example the tex lang is found, the cache is already present.

Option all = false should load only the first match, thus skipping the corresponding files in friendly-snippets.

[echasnovski]

I don't relying on the caching is a good advice here. If anything, having several from_file calls after from_lang while disabling specific language support in lang_patterns of from_lang looks cleaner. But at that point it is almost the same as adjusting lang_patterns directly to load uniquely named language-specific files (as suggested here).

[echasnovski]

I've been thinking of removing this part from my config and instead naming my snippet as simply "tex.json" but that seems a bit hacky. Is there any other way to go about doing this?

My suggestion would be to do exactly like this. It is not hacky at all and is the suggested way to customize language-specific snippets.

You'd not have to remove the part completely, but it can be something like this:

-- Adjust language patterns
local latex_patterns = { 'my-tex.json' }
local lang_patterns = {
  tex = latex_patterns, plaintex = latex_patterns,
  -- Recognize special injected language of markdown tree-sitter parser
  markdown_inline = { 'markdown.json' },
}
local gen_loader = require('mini.snippets').gen_loader
require('mini.snippets').setup({
  snippets = {
    gen_loader.from_lang({ lang_patterns = lang_patterns }),
  },
})

This will load the file named 'my-tex.json' which should be present in '/.config/nvim/snippets/my-tex.json' or '/.config/nvim/after/snippets/my-tex.json'. The prefix "my-" is meant to ensure that there is no file in 'runtimepath' (like in 'friendly-snippets' plugin) with the same name.

The same approach can be done for all other languages: create specific 'my-xxx.json' file and add xxx = { 'my-xxx.json' } to lang_patterns of gen_source.from_lang().

[hownioni]

Thanks! <3