custom snippets don't load with AstroNvim, only the default ones. where should I start?

[Rafael-Conde]

I'm posting this here, because I don't think this is related to AstroNvim. AstroNvim comes with luasnip from the get go, so I tried what they propose in their docs, which I believe it's accurate, but when I try to use my custom snippets they don't show up, only the default ones show up.

I already tried reinstalling everything from scratch but nothing changed. I don't know what to try right now, I used Nvim to write latex documents and the snippets really help with boilerplate code to insert images and tables.

I'm using the latest version of everything, neovim and AstroNvim and I followed the exact same steps of their snippets recipe. Any pointers or help is appreciated!

[L3MON4D3]

You can try enabling logging (check DOC.md), that should give you some hints. Feel free to post the output if it opens more questions than it answers, or doesn't help :D

[L3MON4D3]

Oh, this looks complete 👍
There's a second "INFO | vscode-loader: Registering lazy-load-snippets:" with an empty table, I believe that's where your custom snippets are (not) loaded (ie the load call is there, but there's nothing to load :D )
Did you try passing the full path to load?

[L3MON4D3]

Thank you for guiding me through this! 😄

You're welcome :)

[Rafael-Conde]

Did you try passing the full path to load?

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This finally solved it! 🎊🎆🎇✨🎉🎈
I can't express how relieved I am! I wonder though why it didn't work with the relative path, I checked it over and over. Even reverting to it doesn't work. but tbh that's enough for me. I really appreciate all the time and attention you poured into this! thank you very much!

Please let me know if I can be of help too!

[L3MON4D3]

Hah, Awesome :D
I'd be interested in which relative paths you passed, and where the snippets actually are. The relative path should be interpreted as relative to the directory where vim.env.MYVIMRC resides, maybe this is messed up on windows? Could you check if it is valid?

[Rafael-Conde]

I was testing more and now I think I figured the problem, which actually makes me feel like I'm dumb. I believe the problem was that I was passing a Unix styled path but I'm using Windows. I'll describe more.

I'd be interested in which relative paths you passed, and where the snippets actually are.

I was passing the following string: ./lua/user/snippets in the AstroNvim user config file. which as far as I understood passes whatever you put there to the plugins, using it to initialize them. I had used that relative path in the past and the snippets were working. But now they weren't and I can't figure out when it stopped working.

Now I got the relative path to work but I had to use an windows like relative path, which is: .\\lua\\user\\snippets

where the snippets actually are.

The snippets were in: C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\local\nvim\lua\user\snippets

I believe that the path: C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\local is roughly the same as ~/ on Linux(and Unix I believe).

vim.env.MYVIMRC

I'm using neovim so I believe this file should be the neovim init.lua

I'll list all the paths so you can get the whole picture:

Neovim's init.lua(equivalent .vimrc): C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\local\nvim\init.lua

Vscode snippets path: C:\Users\MY_USER\AppData\local\nvim\lua\user\snippets\package.json

The relative path that didn't work: ./lua/user/snippets

The relative path that worked: .\\lua\\user\\snippets

I hope I managed to picture the whole situation, please let me know if it isn't clear. I can provide more information if you think it'll help in any way. I hope too that clarified the problem and what I believe was the solution.