LuaSnip is a snippet engine for Neovim written entirely in Lua.

It supports simple text expansion as well as dynamic snippets that generate or transform content based on user input. Snippets can be written in Lua or loaded from collections using LSP, VS Code, or SnipMate syntax.

This is free and open source software.

• Offers tabstops, choices, and nested snippets.
• Creates dynamic snippets based on user input.
• Transforms text using Lua functions.
• Supports conditional snippet expansion.
• Provides regular expression triggers.
• Offers automatically triggered snippets.
• Supports postfix snippets.
• Loads filetype-specific snippets.
• Parses LSP, VS Code, and SnipMate snippets.
• Resolves the filetype at the cursor using Treesitter.
• Maintains snippet history for returning to earlier snippets.
• Integrates with completion engines including nvim-cmp.

Website: github.com/L3MON4D3/LuaSnip
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Developer: L3MON4D3
License: Apache License 2.0

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